The Pleasures of Reading

Here are excerpts from the diary of an English clergyman who served certain small villages in Central Wales in the placid seventies. Though it undoubtedly is one of the most unusual, engaging, and artistic literary journals in the English tongue, it is unlikely to become popular, for it was not written in the style to which readers of this era of trashy fiction have become accustomed. Rather, the excitement of its pages is along literary lines.