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readers of English during the past twenty-five years. The wonder is that
ability to buy kept pace with the ability to read, and if discrimination
successes of some recent fictions "crazes," but they are really sustained
the moment undoubtedly entertaining. Some of them as undoubtedly appeal
because that would be to indict the public taste. This recent phenomenon
to quality. Another element has come in since the publishers have
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because of the amount of alcohol they contain; indeed, they are sold
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the subject of crazes utterly disappear in a very short time, while many
slowly become standards, considered as good stock by the booksellers and
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of new books in the quarterly, monthly, and weekly periodicals from the
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who has attained world-wide assent to his position in the first or second
bitter detraction. To be original in any degree was to be damned. And
this period who is now known out of the biographical dictionary. Nothing
in the last three-quarters of a century, so far as it concerned
rose to the dignity almost of theological vituperation.
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