Reading made up exclusively of recent novels, good, well-written,
thoughtful novels, not too startling in form or contents. I would begin
on novels because anybody can read a novel, and because the first
cleansing operation is to induce the subject to read good novels instead
of bad ones. Here is a preliminary list:--
_Tony-Bungay_ (Wells)
_Kipps_ (Wells)
_The Custom of the Country_ (Wharton)
_The Old Wives' Tale_ (Bennett)
_The Man of Property_ (Galsworthy)
_Jude the Obscure_ (Hardy)
_Tess of the D'Urbervilles_ (Hardy)
_Sussex Gorse_ (Kaye-Smith)
and say twenty or thirty more of this type, all published in the last
dozen years. It is, of course, assumed that interest would be
maintained by conversation.