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True frankness is always surprising, and Author Wells surprises the reader more than once. Says he: "You will discover a great deal of evasion and refusal in my story. . . . There is a sort of journalistic legend that I am a person of boundless enthusiasm and energy. Nothing could be further from the reality. For all my desire to be interested I have to confess that for most things and people I don't care a damn. Writing numbers of books and articles is evidence not of energy but of sedentary habits." He speaks gratefully of "the pleasures, the very real...
Life a la Henri is one of those books that has a definite physical effect on the reader. C. M. Doughty's famed Arabia Deserta, for example, parches the tongue. Life a la Henri makes the tongue hang out, the mouth water...
...word Aryan, it is a fine one for the experts to quarrel over. I think to the average reader it means that the Germans want Germans for their neighbors and business and scholastic associates. Why quibble about that, or the word German, or Nordic, or Teutonic. They are mere blanket terms for a desired...
...Ronsard, La Rochefoucauld, Moliere, de Sevigne, Balzse, Louys, Goethe, Nietzsche, Zweig, Dante, Destoyevsky, Chetchov, Andrayev, and scores of others, each in a standard version and selected with the highest discrimination. As far as I know, this collection is unique. It should be of incalculable value in providing the modern reader with a full assortment of foreign writers from whom to choose more extensive reading...
Another feature of the book is the introduction, composed of literary comment which ordinarily would appear at the end of the book in the form of notes. The quotations in this introduction, together with the compiler's remarks, combine in an informal and pleasantly rambling discourse which stimulates the reader's interest in the text to which it applies. Reading it, we can almost hear Mr. Copeland conversing in his old study in Hollis on a score of literary matters that come to mind in the course of an easy talk...