The whole subject, from the earliest to present times, is outlined in a manner which has rendered it readable and interesting,--a rare quality for such a condensed work.
In Scriptures, Hebrew and Christian,[2] the task has been undertaken of rendering the Bible narrative in a form which shall be convenient and readable for young readers.
The general history of psychology is described in readable terms in Gregory Zilboorg and George W.
Whole crowds of men were named as the real authors of his books and plays; but they were only readable when he signed for them.
Was he really conscious that the Life is an admirable work of art as well as the most readable and companionable of books?
The books were not intended for a lettered public, but for plain people who wanted a plain story, which they knew already, set down in a handy and readable form.
As it stands, it is a dull book, readable only by the Bronte enthusiast.
Collingwood, who has looked over most of my proofs and often given me excellent advice in my effort to turn Schopenhauer into readable English.
His histories are always readablebecause he followed the main stream and never lost himself in a sluggish bayou.
That History should be Readable That was a clever device which a writer of "mere literature" hit upon when he boldly dedicated his book to a man of prodigious learning.
But though he loves to get a glimpse of Forbes and men of his kind, he knows that they are not of the stuff that readable histories are made of.
There is much warm feeling in the book, and a considerable amount of information on the subject of the distress among the lower classes, but too little political insight to make it readable nowadays.
The only readable part of Madonna nowadays is the heroine's narrative of her life experiences.
A very readable account of the phenomena of volcanoes and earthquakes.
Roden Noel's volume on Byron is decidedly one of the most readable in the excellent 'Great Writers' series.
The dialogue has sometimes touches of real humor and flashes of genuine wit: but its readable and enjoyable quality is generally independent of these.
It is pronounced by the Hull Examiner "a most readable and well-bound volume.
His new book is one of the mostreadable and instructive he has written.
Contains, in a popular andreadable form, much that is curious and instructive.
This is a readable book, notwithstanding some of its critics have put it down as "dry.
This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day.
Is one of the ablest, most opportune, and most readable books it has been our good fortune to enjoy for many a day.
One of the most readable collections of sermons that we have seen for a long time.
Many think that a readable sermon is a contradiction in terms.
The same quality that showed in his tales made him the most readable of war correspondents.
Most good stories are and practically all readable books of history.
The former was originally intended merely to form a chapter in the Descent; but the materials grew, and the result is one of the most readable of books.
Froude has written, perhaps one of the least judicious, but certainly one of the most readable of English biographies.
Nearly all of Morris is readable and enjoyable, but few of his lines linger in the memory, and perhaps the only one frequently quoted is that in which he describes himself as 'the idle singer of an empty day.
He is strongest in his account of military operations, and his description of the campaigns of the Second Punic War remains still the most vivid and readable in our language, and probably in modern literature.
His best book however is The Bible in Spain (1843), an exceedingly readable account of his travels as colporteur in that country.
Sir Walter Raleigh: "One of the most readable of the shorter histories of the language.
Sir Henry Taylor wrote prose as well as verse, in particular a very readable autobiography.
What makes his book readable is partly the interest attaching to the subject of which it treats, but far more the simple, natural, straightforward way in which Joinville tells what he has to tell.
His poems are given now for the first time in a correct and readable text by Lachmann and Haupt, and many a difficult passage has been elucidated by their notes.
Joinville’s book is readable, and it is readable even in spite of the antiquated and sometimes difficult language in which it is written.
It will form a sort of supplement to my former work, and will, I trust, be morereadable and popular.
We congratulate Mr. Wells on the production of a readable and intelligent account of Oxford as it is at the present time, written by persons who are possessed of a close acquaintance with the system and life of the University.
A careful and precise study, a fair and impartial criticism, and an eminently readable book.
A compact, faithful, most readable record of the campaign.
Even Browning, who wrote little prose except the extraordinary parenthetical letters, was so clarified by Shelley that in his essay he discovered a fairly fluent and readable style.
Collins had a vivid and audacious mind that made him one of the most readable of modern Shakespeareans, and he had, I assume, considerable learning.
Only the reporter who at all times retains entire possession of himself is able to write the most forceful, interesting, and readable fire stories.
The book is written in a mostreadable style, light and easy, yet full of information, and not overburdened with scientific words and phrases.
A most readable volume; there is not a dull line in the whole volume, while the illustrations are remarkably good.
