The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books; On the Formation of Libraries, Public and Private; On Courses of Reading, Etc.; With a Classified Bibliography for Easy Reference (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books; On the Formation of Libraries, Public and Private; On Courses of Reading, Etc.; With a Classified Bibliography for Easy Reference

The reviser of the present edition of The Best Reading had more or less to do with the plan and details of its first edition in 1872; and he regrets that his accomplished and excellent friend, Mr. George P. Putnam, is not still living, as he would assuredly be competent to improve this edition as much as he did that. The unusual success of the work, however, including the weighty testimony of at least one imitation which was remarkably close in point of arrangement and typography, has proved its practical usefulness.

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