The Lost Art of Reading

About this eBook

Author

Lee, Gerald Stanley, 1862-1944

Credits

Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

Z: Bibliography, Library science

Subject

Books and reading

Category

Text

eBook-No.

26312

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26312

Release Date

August 14, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Lost Art of Reading — Contents — Book I Interferences with the Reading Habit
2. 2.The First Interference: Civilisation — I Dust — II Dust — III Dust to Dust — IV Ashes — V The Literary Rush — VI Parenthesis To the Gentle Reader — VII More Parenthesis—But More to the Point — VIII More Literary Rush — IX The Bugbear of Being Well Informed—A Practical Suggestion — X The Dead Level of Intelligence — XI The Art of Reading as One Likes
3. 3.The Second Interference: The Disgrace of the Imagination — I On Wondering Why One Was Born — II The Top of the Bureau Principle
4. 4.The Third Interference: The Unpopularity of the First Person Singular — I The First Person a Necessary Evil — II The Art of Being Anonymous — III Egoism and Society — IV i + I = We — V The Autobiography of Beauty
5. 5.The Fourth Interference: The Habit of Not Letting One’s Self Go — I The Country Boy in Literature — II The Subconscious Self — III The Organic Principle of Inspiration
6. 6.The Fifth Interference: The Habit of Analysis — I If Shakespeare Came to Chicago — II Analysis Analysed
7. 7.The Sixth Interference: Literary Drill in College — I Seeds and Blossoms — II Private Road: Dangerous — III The Organs of Literature — IV Entrance Examinations in Joy — V Natural Selection in Theory — VI Natural Selection in Practice — VII The Emancipation of the Teacher — VIII The Test of Culture — IX Summary — X A Note
8. 8.The Seventh Interference: Libraries. Wanted: An Old-Fashioned Librarian — I viz. — II cf. — III et al. — IV etc. — V O — Book II Possibilities — I The Issue — II The First Selection — III Conveniences — IV The Charter of Possibility — V The Great Game — VI Outward Bound — Book III Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind
9. 9.I—Unscientific — I On Being Intelligent in a Library — II How It Feels — III How a Specialist can Be an Educated Man — IV On Reading Books through Their Backs — V On Keeping Each Other in Countenance — VI The Romance of Science — VII Monads — VIII Multiplication Tables
10. 10.II—On Reading for Principles — I On Changing One’s Conscience — II On the Intolerance of Experienced People — III On Having One’s Experience Done Out — IV On Reading a Newspaper in Ten Minutes — V General Information — VI But——
11. 11.III—Reading Down Through — I Inside — II On Being Lonely with a Book — III Keeping Other Minds Off — IV Reading Backwards
12. 12.IV—Reading for Facts — I Calling the Meeting to Order — II Symbolic Facts — III Duplicates: A Principle of Economy
13. 13.V—Reading for Results — I The Blank Paper Frame of Mind — II The Usefully Unfinished — III Athletics
14. 14.VI—Reading for Feelings — I The Passion of Truth — II Topical Point of View
15. 15.VII—Reading the World Together — I Focusing — II The Human Unit — III The Higher Cannibalism — IV Spiritual Thrift — V The City, the Church, and the College — VI The Outsiders — VII Reading the World Together — Book IV What to Do Next — I See Next Chapter — II Diagnosis — III Eclipse — IV Apocalypse — V Every Man his Own Genius — VI An Inclined Plane — VII Allons — Footnotes

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