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De Quincey, entirely concurs. Not that Landor is to supplant, but only to supplement, De Quincey, Macaulay, Scott, and the rest, in a judicious course of English reading. Such a course must often begin with the second best at least it must begin where interest is most readily engaged. But it must not be allowed to degenerate into a romantic debauch. And Landor sprose, one thinks, should afford precisely the right corrective, doubly needed at a time when the classic board is so frugally spread. Such speculations, however, do not settle a question like this. Matthew Arnold was fond of pointing out that the value of any discipline is to be measured by its power of engaging the emotions and thereby exerting an influence upon the sense for conduct and the sense for beauty. By this test, applied and observed in the classroom, the Imaginary Conversations do not fail. Perhaps no element in literature awakens a livelier response than the dramatic, and in these dramatic dialogues the student is brought face to face with matters of enduringt interest. Humanity in its manifold aspects, with its clashes of opinion, its impulses to action, its gradations of character, is always in the foreground. There is no recital of facts to be committed to memory, and there are few flights of rhetoric to invite desultory discussion of words and sentences.
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Lander sprose. The aim has been to include, not what is most characteristic, but what is most interesting and instructive, therefore most suitable for those who are beginning their studies in literature. For Landor must be approached with circumspection: some of his most characteristic work, delightful indeed as the recreation of mature and meditative years, has no place here. In the I ntroduction, however, an attempt has been made to restore the balance. But after all, and making the largest allowance for personal taste, no selection can differ very much from Mr. Colvin s. The fact is that of Landor sseveral thousand pages of prose, that which can make an appeal at once wide and deep can be gathered into the compass of a modest volume. The rest is like the vast plains of the Dakotas fertile, but unpicturesque. For the reassurance of those who still look askance at the Imaginary Conversations, let Mr.
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