Review: The Scholar’s Mission
Title: “The Scholar’s Mission” in The Works of Orestes A. Brownson Collected and Arranged by Henry F. Brownson Volume XIX pages 65-87. Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson Published: New York: AMS…
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: Book Review
Title: How to Read Novels Like a Professor Author: Thomas C. Foster Published: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008 About the Author[1] Thomas C. Foster grew up in rural Ohio. His…
Emile or On Education: Book Review
Title: Emile or On Education Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Introduction, Translation, and Notes: Allan Bloom Published: New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1979 (Originally published in 1762) About the Author[1] Jean-Jacques Rousseau,…
Childish vs Childlike
At first it may appear that these two terms are very similar as they deal with children. But that is not really true, as we use them many times to…
Book Review: A Manual of English Prose Literature Biographical and Critical by William Minto
Title: A Manual of English Prose Literature Biographical and Critical Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of Style Author: William Minto Published: Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1881. Pages-548. Preamble This…
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The Collapse of Superman by William Roscoe Thayer
Review of a political satire debunking the myth of the German Superman in 1918.