On The Art of Reading

think of the utterances of the Botocudos-to be exorbitant: that I distrust all attempts to

rival Pindar's [Greek: Arioton men udor], and indeed puts what it contains of truth with more of finality, less of provocation (though Pindar at once follow

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visiting Cambridge on

orting of its inha

mping strongly with one foot and dragging the other after it. Now with drooping heads they press closer and closer together; now they widen the circle. Often one can hear nothing but a continually repeated kalan? aha, or again one hears short improvised songs in which we are t

an estim

ibility of

are following a custom common to the flotilla, the exp

t confirms our hypothesis that in communal celebration we have at once the origin and model of three poems, "The

write poetry; but, more modestly, with the instinct by which the child likes it, and the way in which he can be best encouraged to read and improve this

o children, and independently basing it upon the very same imitative instincts w