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The Lost Art of Reading


By


Gerald Stanley Lee

Author of "The Shadow Christ" (A Study of the Hebrew Poets) and "About
an Old New England Church" "A Little History"



G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press

1903



COPYRIGHT, 1902

BY

GERALD STANLEY LEE

Published, November, 1902
Reprinted January 1903

The Knickerbocker Press, New York




TO

JENNETTE LEE




Contents


  BOOK I
    INTERFERENCES WITH THE READING HABIT
      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 On