Idle Hours in a Library

· 1918

┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ By the same Author │ │ │ │ _The Church and the Stage_ │ │ │ │ _Introduction to the Philosophy │ │ of Herbert Spencer_ │ │ │ │ _Studies in Interpretation_ │ │ │ └───────────────────────────────────┘ The title of this little volume was chosen because it seems to indicate a characteristic possessed in common by the otherwise unrelated essays here brought together. They may all be described in a general way as holiday tasks—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books, and not of special investigations, undertaken with a view to definite scholastic ends. They are, moreover, as will readily be seen, completely unacademic i…

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