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Amateurs and Professionals
New at IWP Books:The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, Selected and Edited by Henry Festing Jones, 1912. “There is no excuse for amateur work being bad. Amateurs often excuse their shortcomings on the ground that they are not professionals, the professional could plead with greater justice that…Read the post →
Some Active Way
From William James, 1890, The Principles of Psychology. “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's…
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New at IWP Books: C. E. Montague, 1925, Disenchantment. “To let the sick part of our soul just be still and recover; to make our…
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1897
The Children of the Night
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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1937
Invertebrate Spain
José Ortega y Gasset
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1871
The Metaphysical Society Papers
Walter Bagehot
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1978
Heraclitean Fire
Erwin Chargaff
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1892
Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs
Alfred Sidgwick
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1932
Criticism
Desmond MacCarthy
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1936
The Melancholy Lute
Franklin P. Adams
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1917
The Nemesis of Mediocrity
Ralph Adams Cram
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