The
Lost Art of Reading

By
Gerald Stanley Lee
Author of “The Shadow Christ” (A Study of the Hebrew Poets)
and “About an Old New England Church”
“A Little History”

Copyright, 1902
by
GERALD STANLEY LEE

Published, November, 1902
Reprinted January 1903

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

To
JENNETTE LEE

Contents

• BOOK I PAGE
  INTERFERENCES WITH THE READING HABIT 1
  • CIVILISATION 3
    1. Dust 3
    2. Dust 5
    3. Dust to Dust 8
    4. Ashes 12
    5. The Literary Rush 15
    6. Parenthesis—To the Gentle Reader 24
    7. More Parenthesis—But More to the Point 28
    8. More Literary Rush 34
    9. The Bugbear of Being Well Informed—A Practical Suggestion 41
    10. The Dead Level of Intelligence 48
    11. The Art of Reading as One Likes 58
  •  THE DISGRACE OF THE IMAGINATION 67
    1. On Wondering Why One Was Born 67
    2. ...