Comfort Found in Good Old Books

To tide me over the first weeks of bitter grief I plunged into this work of reviewing the great books from the Bible to the works of the eighteenth century writers.

为了熬过最初几周悲痛欲绝的日子,我埋头写作,评述从《圣经》到十八世纪作家作品的伟大书籍。

It was planned to meet the wants of that great American public which yearns for knowledge and culture, but does not know how to set about acquiring it.

本书旨在满足那些渴求知识与文化、却不知如何着手获取的广大美国读者的需要。