" Francis C. Richter, Editor Sporting Life, Philadelphia:"From a purely literary standpoint, your work is to me amazing.

The essential qualities of the "Vita Nuova," those which afford direct illustration of Dante's character, as distinguished from those which may be called youthful, or merely literary, or biographical, correspond in striking measure with those of the "Divina Commedia."

Their organ was the Idun, an exclusively literary publication.

The usual education in the past has been mainly literary.

The strictly literary prose of the Elizabethan period bore a small proportion to the verse.

Although the lack of early training had hindered the orderly development of a naturally fine mind, it had not prevented him from doing a great deal of reading or from forming decidedly literary tastes.

Bacon's works are divided into three broad classes:first, the Philosophical; secondly, the Professional; thirdly, the Literary and Occasional.

It is worth noticing in this connexion that a German translation was projected by no less a person than Notker, and since they are coupled by him with the Andria, we may reasonably infer that in this case at least the writer's concern, if not distinctively literary, was at any rate educational.

On its literary side the book is remarkable, though a translation, as being the first prose work in modern English having a distinctly literary style and flavor.

I had never lived in such an enthusiastically literary and reform latitude before, and my mental powers were kept at the highest tension.

Free play to childish vitality; punishment the natural inconvenience consequent on wrong-doing; the incitement of the desire to learn; the training of sense-activity rather than reflection, in early years; the acquirement of the power to learn rather than the acquisition of learning,in short, the natural and scientifically progressive rather than the bookish and analytically literary method was the end and aim of "Émile.