Reading for Profit

Résumé : Many of the world's great thinkers have insisted that each human activity is closely bound up with every other. If they are right, our reading will not be the harmless and thoroughly independent pastime it may seem. It will have a great deal to do with what we are and what we become. That is the standpoint from which Mr. Belgion discusses novels, biographies, serious books, drama, and poetry in English. . . .