Book-Reviews (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Book-Reviews In these talks we shall discuss some of the faults and merits of book-reviewing as it is done to-day, and as it interests librarians. Its importance to librarians will be emphasized, but it may be taken for granted that they are interested in all that pertains to books and reading. It is necessary for a librarian to read book-reviews, and to get all the help which she can get from them, but it is especially undesirable for her to depend too much upon them. She must know how to review books for herself, and must not always accept as final the judgment of any other reviewer, no matter in what publication he writes. To make these points, I shall speak to-day of the present condition of book-reviewing in this country. At the next lecture, we can talk about the history of book-reviewing in England and about some of the contemporary reviews. After that, the history of reviewing in the United States, and our present book-reviewing periodicals. The fourth lecture will consider the different classes of book-reviews, the processes of getting a book reviewed, and the minor subject of book annotation. "There are five groups interested in literary criticism: publishers of books, authors, publishers of reviews, critics, and finally, the reading public." This classification was made by an essayist in the Atlantic Monthly half a dozen years ago. You will see at once that he has left us out of the reckoning entirely, - he pays librarians not even the bare compliment of mention. All the persons in these five groups, by the way, are accustomed to leave librarians out of their reckoning, all but the publishers of books, at any rate. When a writer, or a critic, is speaking of literary or bookish folk he never mentions librarians. This is a strange thing, - librarians who do nothing but collect, preserve and distribute books are thought of as a sort of class apart from all others who deal with literature. What is the reason for this? Are librarians themselves partly to blame? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.