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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Finished Porson's "Letters to Travis", on the disputed passage in John...'Thomas Green Richard PorsonLetters to Mr. Archdeacon TravisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'George Eliot [pseud] anon.Prose Edda, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'George Eliot [pseud] Thomas MalthusunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "A Tale of Two Cities" to Babs after tea & washed my hair.'Verena Pennefather Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolph Roeber. This is my introduction to Anarchism, and I find that there is something in its basic recognition of the living...William Soutar Rudolph RoeberAnarcho-SyndicalismPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest RenanAverroes et l'AverroismePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] Eliakim CarmolyHistoire des M?decins JuifsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] unknownFirst PrinciplesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Finished reading "Bengal Lancer" by F. Yeats-Brown. A pleasant book - by a likeable fellow. It's a pity he merely whets our appetite for a feast of yoga - but cannot sat...William Soutar F Yeats-BrownBengal LancerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "Grey Granite" by Grassic Gibbon. Hasn't the richness of "Sunset Song" but has much of its verve. One is ever conscious of a certain rank liveliness abo...William Soutar Lewis Grassic GibbonGrey GranitePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesLife and Works of GoethePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin". Very fresh mind - he at once joins the company of those whom we wish we could have met. Such a distinctive Fren...William Soutar Paul GauguinThe Intimate Journals of Paul GauguinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "The Northern Muse", arranged by John Buchan. A fine anthology - yet one must admit that our greatest poems are ballads by unknown men. If a choice had ...William Soutar John BuchanThe Northern MusePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "The Scots Literary Tradition" by John Spiers - a capable little study within its limits, and comes near enough the truth in its analysis of the frustra...William Soutar John SpiersThe Scots Literary TraditionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading A.C. Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy", which has lain unread for 20 years: a work of profound penetration. Not only has it taught me much about Shakesp...William Soutar A.C. BradleyShakespearean TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading Amiel's "Journal Intime" today. How easy for a critic to lapse into a patronising attitude towards this most sensitive man who was so critical of himsel...William Soutar Henri-Frédéric AmielThe Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished reading Fathom [underlined].'Alfred Tennyson Tobias SmollettFerdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading Mansfield Park, which more than ever convinces me that Jane Austen is trivial, facetious and commonplace.'James Lees-Milne Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading Murray's "Keats and Shakespeare" again. This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I can think of no other study - of this nature - carr...William Soutar John Middleton MurrayKeats and ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] Henri Marc-Bonnet"Histoire des Ordres Religieux"Print: Book


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