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THE AUTHOR'S PURPOSE than appears on the surface in the casual confession by Mr. A. C. Benson in his lightful volume From a College Window:

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It is interesting to remember in this connection that George Meredith once wrote:

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In other words, in literature as well as in life there are some occasions when the longest way round is the shortest way home, and one of them is the art of acquiring a particular branch of literacy form by the practice of forms that are radically different. [112]