...can manage to preserve enough of what was and remains good."4 In a famous essay John Ruskin said that books are divisible into two classes — "the books of the hour and the books of all time." Ruskin called the latter "true books," written "not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely,...

...the latter, the scholars of centuries ago knew that, as John Ruskin put it in the nineteenth century, "All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time." / will seek the valuable and enduring in all my reading. A green thought in a green shade. — Andrew...

...first grand necessity in reading is to be vigilantly, conscientiously select," Buskin divides all books into two classes, "the books of the hour and the books of all time," and the great question as Frederick Harrison pats it is this : '"" What are the books that in our little...

...as sounding prescient warnings about dumbing down. Certainly, as early as 1 865 he was writing that 'books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time'. He also recognised that readerships were changing, and felt this was for the worse: 'it is simply and...

...those rapid and ephemeral writings to slow and enduring writings — books, properly so called. For all books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all tirn-». Mark this distinction — it is not <jne of quality only. It is not merely the bad book that...

...like reading it aloud: it is a sure-fire test of its qualities or lack of them. As John Ruskin said, 'All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.' The wonderland worlds of literary reception and perception are important to understand. There are fogs...

...John Burroughs "Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors." — John F. Kennedy "All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time." — John Ruskin "Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in...

...the years of . . ." 2. To introduca a formal enumeration of particulars after a general statement. All books are divisible into two classes; the books of the hour and the books of all time. 3. To set off an appo&itive clause or phrase that constitutes a restatement of the preceding clause....