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Books in general

by Sir John Collings Squire

Chapters (55)
  1. Books in General: BOOKS OF ESSAYS 0:00
  2. Preface 0:43
  3. Who’s Who 1:30
  4. Political Songs 8:13
  5. An Oriental on Albert the Good 14:57
  6. Epigrams 21:50
  7. An Eminent Baconian 28:21
  8. The Beauties of Badness 33:33
  9. More Badness 47:44
  10. A Mystery Solved 51:33
  11. Carrying the Alliance too far 53:37
  12. May 1914 56:38
  13. May 1914: The Leipzig Exhibition 1:03:58
  14. The Mantle of Sir Edwin 1:10:27
  15. “The Cattle of the Boyne” 1:17:08
  16. August 1914 1:18:56
  17. Mrs. Barclay sees it through 1:24:30
  18. A Topic of Standing Interest 1:31:50
  19. Was Cromwell an Alligator? 1:37:50
  20. The Depressed Philanthropist 1:44:57
  21. A Polyphloisboisterous Critic 1:51:45
  22. “Another Century, and then ...” 1:56:38
  23. Herrick 2:03:05
  24. The Muse in Liquor 2:09:46
  25. £5 Misspent 2:16:33
  26. Shakespeare’s Women and Mr. George Moore 2:21:31
  27. Moving a Library 2:28:11
  28. Table-Talk and Jest Books 2:32:04
  29. Stephen Phillips 2:37:15
  30. Gray and Horace Walpole 2:43:19
  31. A Horrible Bookseller 2:50:28
  32. The Troubles of a Catholic 2:55:35
  33. The Bible as Raw Material 2:57:33
  34. How to avoid Bad English 3:02:22
  35. Woodland Creatures 3:08:00
  36. Other People’s Books 3:14:35
  37. Peacock 3:19:29
  38. Wordsworth’s Personal Dullness 3:21:33
  39. Henry James’s Obscurity 3:28:18
  40. The “Ring” in the Bookselling Trade 3:35:03
  41. Music-Hall Songs 3:41:32
  42. More Music-Hall Songs 3:48:03
  43. Utopias 3:53:34
  44. Charles II in English Verse 4:00:08
  45. The Most Durable Books 4:05:43
  46. The Worst Style in the World 4:11:26
  47. The Reconstruction of Orthography 4:18:34
  48. Mr. James Joyce 4:24:17
  49. Tennessee 4:31:03
  50. Sir William Watson and Mr. Lloyd George 4:33:50
  51. Stranded 4:39:20
  52. Mr. Ralph Hodgson 4:45:17
  53. Double Misprints 4:49:15
  54. The History of Earl Pumbles 4:50:28
  55. On Destroying Books 4:56:42
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Narrator
Arthur — English RP Narrator (en-GB)
Length
5 hr 4 min
Language
English
Added
November 1, 2026
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Project Gutenberg
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