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By S. P. B. Mais

2020-01-10 22:06:55

It must be remembered that literary critics are men of intelligence who have read everything and damned most things. Very few indeed are the books which they allow to be worth the trouble that must have been taken to write them.
It must be remembered that literary critics are men of intelligence who have read everything and damned most things. Very few indeed are the books which they allow to be worth the trouble that must have been taken to write them. Less

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File size295.382 KB
Print pages358
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1331412793
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S. P. B. Mais
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Stuart Petre Brodie Mais (4 July 1885 – 21 April 1975), known publicly as S. P. B. Mais, was a British author, journalist, and broadcaster. He was an author of travel books and guides and had an inf...

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