Word: readers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...taught, and others yet that it ought not to be. The last of these objections is urged by those who have seen unsatisfactory results; but this is simply because the instruction is not carried far enough It is nonsense to say it can't be taught, because a reader is both born and made, both elements are almost invariably essential. And as to the first objection, surely nothing is more grievous than to see a tolerable reader who is not helped further...
...fails to make the best of his materials. The end seems careless and hurried. The story however is good in the beginning, the descriptions are by no means bad and the thing is getting interesting when all at once it weakens and the point is not forced on the reader as it should...
DEAR SIRS: - Will you allow me to call the attention of your readers to what seems to be a truly exceptional chance of becoming acquainted with some of Ibson's masterpieces, As is well known, the first great successes of Ibson's works, outside of his native country, were achieved in Germany. For years the poet himself has been living in Munich, in closest touch with the literary and artistic life of the Bavarian capital; and the best of his dramas have long since become household works of all the great German theatres. One of Ibson's personal friends...
...Speeches on the Tariff," how much easier study would become and how much more general would be the interest and the knowledge shown in important questions of state. What Professor Taussig has done is to resurrect from the Congressional Documents and from other sources equally inaccessible to the ordinary reader, a few of the most famous and valuable papers written by our earlier statesmen on the subject of the tariff. These papers, as he says, "are now reprinted in the hope that more easy access to them will be of service to teachers and students of economics, and will bring...
...second edition of Professor Lyon's Assyrian Reader will be published by Scribners this week...