Show the question of skipping Skipp Skip pinc lne A good work of fiction whether m in i prose or in verse wo we are here speaking only of good works is a work of art and can be rightly enjoyed only by entering into sympathy with the artists mind and accepting his work according to his intention in a perfect poem the place of every word in a perfect novel tho place if ff not of every word of every episode andoe and of every paragraph is important and tho the reader who skips throws away the pleasure he has meant to derive from tho harmony of composition in which very possibly the beauty of the whole may chic chiefly itly consist and despises the best part of the artists labor ile ho might as well go to seo see a good play and then willfully miss every alternate scene self culture cultum |