![]() ![]() Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Once upon a time, that is to say a generation or two ago, he was very highly esteemed. The gentle reader.-The enjoyment of poetry.-The mission of humor.-Cases of conscience concerning witchcrafts.-The honorable points of ignorance.-That. The gentle reader by Samuel McChord Crothers, 1903, Houghton, Mifflin and company edition, It looks like you're offline. The Gentle Reader contained essays on the enjoyment of poetry, the evolution of gentlemen, cases of conscience concerning witchcraft, and quixotism. The Gentle Reader 1903 Paperback September 22, 2009. WHAT has become of the Gentle Reader One does not like to think that he has passed away with the stagecoach and the weekly news-letter and that henceforth we are to be confronted only by the stony glare of the Intelligent Reading Public. Then he had them trimmed at the margins, bound anew in pigskin (which he thought could best take the beating of a year on safari), placed in an aluminum bookcase with oilcloth slipcase and – viola! The Pigskin Library, weighing a neat fifty-eight pounds. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers (2019, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products. ![]() Indefatigable as ever, Roosevelt solved his quandary by taking the Bible, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Euripides, some English poets – Shelley, Keats, Browning, Tennyson – and a couple medieval classics adding a sampling of Bret Harte, Sir Walter Scott, Cooper, Twain, Thackeray, and Dickens – and having them all unbound. The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers. He could only take, then, as he states here, a “limited number of books” - one of which would be Reverend Crothers’ The Gentle Reader. The gentle reader - The enjoyment of poetry - The mission of humor - Cases of conscience concerning witchcraft - The honorable points of ignorance - That history should be readable - The evolution of the gentleman - The hinter-land of science - The gentle readers. Read The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers available from Rakuten Kobo. He would be gone a year he read at the rate of a book a day a porter could carry no more than sixty pounds. What to take along to read on Safari, was as much a math problem for Roosevelt as a literary one. ![]()
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