The
Home University
Modern
Library Knowledge
Jl Comprehensive Series of New
and Specially Written goo/çs
EDITORS :
PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A.
HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A.
PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A.
Prof. WM. T. BREWSTER, M.A.
The Home University Library
Is without the slightest doubt the pioneer in supplying serious literature
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University Library that its volumes do not merely attempt to feed
ignorance with knowledge. The authors noticeably realise that the
simple willing appetite of sharp-set ignorance is not specially common
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partially but injudiciously filled, with more or less serious results of
indigestion. The food supplied is therefore frequently medicinal as
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Manchester Guardian.
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of a good brain, operating with the ease and interesting freedom of a
specialist dealing with his own subject. ... A series which promises to
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support.’—The Observer.
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find more pleasure and profit. If the publishers want a motto for the
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Journal of Education.
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among earnest readers; but its wider and sustained success, surely,
comes from the fact that it has to a large extent created and certainly
refined the taste by which it is appreciated.”—Daily Chronicle.
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