Sir: You are kind enough to refer to my lecture on "Literary Taste and
How to Acquire It." I venture to suggest that your summary--viz.: "It is
to read only first-class stuff," not only fails to meet the problem, but
represents exactly the view that I am out to demolish. If, as I presume,
you mean that the ambitious person who now reads Harold Bell Wright
should sit down to the works of Shakespeare, I can tell you at once that
the process will be a failure. My method is one of graduation from the
worst to the best stuff.
W. L. George.
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We do not wish to crab W. L. George's act, "Literary Taste and How to
Acquire It," but we know the answer. It is to read only first-class
stuff. Circumstances may oblige a man to write second-class books, but
there is no reason why he should read such.
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