From “Book hunting as a sport,” an address from James Westfall Thompson to the Caxton Club of Chicago, 1907 (published 1908). Full address here. “It is a truism that a man is known by his friends. Show me a man’s library, and I will tell you what kind of man he is.” “The element of
Some years ago I took an online class, Writing American Food. Among the food and restaurant critics, cooks and authors the course covered was the “first food journalist,” Clementine Paddleford (1898-1967). She was a hoot. While based in New York, she traveled the county to discover “how America eats”– even went so far as to
DEAR common flower, that grow’st beside the way,Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold!First pledge of blithesome May,Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold—High-hearted buccaneers, o’erjoyed that they 5An Eldorado in the grass have found,Which not the rich earth’s ample roundMay match in wealth!—thou art more dear to meThan all the prouder summer-blooms may
Most recently finished shelves. These are up against the back of the sofa and help define the breakfast “room”. On the left are histories of literatures, books about certain periods, anthologies, and the like. Here’s what happens during the non-book cleaning time of year. I will get a crappy old book, or discover one in
Toward a Logic of Historical Thought David Hackett Fischer (1970) Historians’ Fallacies (2) dealt with the organization of the book, the general topic of question framing, and the fallacy of false dichotomous questions. Misology was a general introduction to the book with some fun quotes. The overarching theme of this series of posts is that
Toward a Logic of Historical Thought David Hackett Fischer (1970) People write histories. Writers (often) commit fallacies. People read histories. [Normative statement coming up.] Readers should read critically. Readers familiar with writers’ fallacies are better critics. I’m not a logician and that’s not a good argument (?) but you get the gist. So we are
Logic hating New crappy old book arrived yesterday– two in fact. (This, if you’re interested, brings the official catalog count up to 3524; unofficial guesstimate is ~4500.) One was Paul Revere’s Ride (David Hackett Fischer, 1994). I have the audio book but as having the audio book is not the same thing as having the
from An Explanation of Luther’s Small Catechism: A Handbook for the Catechetical Class Revised Edition (1935; 1st 1907) He sounds down right ticked off about this doesn’t he? Books filed in the Dewey Decimal 200s are cleaned and reorganized. There remain a few odds and ends here in the den and then it’s back to
“With the increasing use of modern translations– which are generally more accurate than the King James Bible– many of the older, more beautiful words and phrases are being lost today. It is hoped that this book, in addition to its practical function, will help to preserve something of our Biblical linguistic inheritance. –Preface, A Dictionary
in a certain time of year when the sun shines through the windows just right. Landscape with Farmhouse, Mondrain, found in Metropolitan Seminars in Art Portfolio 4: Abstraction (1955). Each volume has a few dozen individual prints that could be framed. “… this having been done, it need not be done again.” Heh. Where else
The Velvetteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco, illustrated by William Nicholson (1922); found in The Illustrated Treasury of Children’s Literature (1955). This long weekend is going to be about fund raising. Some may recall that contributions to the tip jar are earmarked for Tonybee’s ten volume A story of History. The price has gone up about
If Charles Dudley Warner sounds familiar to you, you may go to the head of the class. We read his Being a Boy (1877) last fall. What a wonderful book that is. I recall many of you enjoying reading about those times. Here are all of the posts excerpting passages. And here’s a favorite, The
Part of the fun of doing the annual book cleaning is the finding of forgotten crappy old books. “But what do we mean by the America Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in
“I would claim, if I did not think it presumptuous in one so ill-instructed, to have as one object the elucidation of truth, and the encouragement of good morals in this real world, by the ancient devise of exemplifying them in unfamiliar embodiments … “ –J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters (September 1945) in Hobbit Virtues, Christopher A.
Exciting, isn’t it? Just to give you a sense of things, that pile is 7″ tall. Yesterday I read up on Andrew Lang and Edward Fitzgerald. A little Kant got thrown in for good measure. Not a Kant fan, but the others were interesting characters. Lang is known today– if he’s known today– for his
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