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letterhead JEANNETTE ST. L. SOMERS 11209 Vernon Avenue Chicago, Illinois

something funny or out of the ordinary comes up, a kind of "we-get-the-point" look. I don't remember a thing about his scholarship, simply that he was a real personality. I like your reviews. They show deep culture, but you don't write like a college professor, a brand of writing that I hate. You write as though you've always lived with and loved books, but also as if you had lived a life of your own, and felt them as something more than literature. I enjoyed your review on "The Dickens Digest" especially because I agree with you whole-heartedly on digests and boiled down versions. I read for the style and savor of an author, not for any "message" or uplift, just a kind of pagan enjoyment. Dickens without the minor characters wouldn't have any interest for me. It's a good many years since I've gone in for any Dickensian reading and I don't remember a thing about