 | 1900 - 352 страница
...step towards providing a remedy. — People who want to read Augustine Birrell's delightful address on the question "Is it Possible to Tell a Good Book from a Bad One?" will find it in full in The Living Age for April Hth. It is full of humorous and chastening reflections.... | |
 | 1900 - 872 страница
...which I shall refer In a minute. I have raised the subject of taste and a standard of taste by asking the question, "Is it possible to tell a good book from a bad one?" This almost involves an affirmative reply. A well-known Nonconformist divine wrote a short treatise... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1900 - 598 страница
...had in it no power even to recuperate or refresh. Mr. Augustine Birrell had recently given an address on the question, " Is it possible to tell a good book from a bad one ?" Like all that they got from Mr. Birrell the address was brilliant and witty, but, after all, it... | |
 | 1900 - 862 страница
...citizens who have merited their freedom. People who want to read Augustine Birrell's delightful address on the question, " Is It Possible to Tell a Good Book from a Bad One?" will find it in full in The Living Age for April 14. It is full of humorous and chastening reflections.... | |
 | 1900 - 590 страница
...satisfactory results." LITERARY NOTES. People who want to read Augustine Birrell's delightful address on the question, " Is it Possible to Tell a Good Book from a Bad One ?" will find it in full in The Living Age for April 14. It is full of humorous and chastening reflections.... | |
 | 1900 - 532 страница
...which I shall refer in a minute. I have raised the subject of taste and a standard of taste by asking the question, "Is it possible to tell a good book from a bad one?" This almost involves an affirmative reply. A well-known Nonconformist divine wrote a short treatise... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 страница
...which I shall refer in a minute. I have raised the subject of taste and a standard of taste by asking the question, ' Is it possible to tell a good book from a bad one ? ' This almost involves an affirmative reply. A well known Nonconformist divine wrote a short treatise... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1900 - 810 страница
...BOOKS. THE March Cornhill contains Mr. Augustine Bin-ell's Edinburgh lecture on taste, under the title "Is It Possible to Tell a Good Book from a Bad One?" It is a thoroughly characteristic essay. Mr. Birrell begins by quoting Voltaire : " The necessity of saving... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1901 - 314 страница
...which I shall refer in a minute. I have raised the subject of taste and a standard of taste by asking the question, ' Is it possible to tell a good book from a bad ' one? ' This almost involves an affirmative reply. A well-known Nonconformist divine wrote a short treatise... | |
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Is it possible to tell a good book from a ' bad one ?' This almost involves an affirmative reply. 
