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have not aimed at exhaustiveness even of suggestion in my 

 treatment of the topic ; and while saying much which will 

 appear perhaps trivial and obvious, have omitted some of the 

 subtler and more interesting aspects of the matter. A syste- 

 matic criticism of personal style would require a volume, 

 and would demand physiological and psychological knowledge 

 which is rarely found in combination with an extensive study 

 of literatures and arts. 



