"Foreword."

A reflection on the role that the Reader's Digest may have played in combating modern "temptations towards a life of easy illiteracy." Bates mentions in particular articles about the volcano Krakatoa and astronomy, as well as a piece by H.L. Mencken. In The Reader's Digest Omnibus (London, 1952, pp. ix-xii).

ID: 
c155
Title: 
"Foreword."
Genre: 
Essay
Page Count: 
4
Word Count: 
ca. 1450
Year of Publication: 
1952
Document Type: 
Full-text Online
Introductions, Forewords, Prefaces
Literary Criticism
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