The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories.(Brief Article)

National Review | November 15, 1993| | Copyright

The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories, edited, with commentary by William J. Bennett (Simon & Schuster, 873 pp., $27.50)

SOME ten years ago I noticed a copy of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel in a second-hand bookshop. As I picked it up and leafed through it, I remembered just how much I had enjoyed it at the age of ten. What I had enjoyed was not just the adventure but adventure infused with morality. I bought it and read it again expecting to find it nonsense. It is not nonsense. In fact it is all the better today since its genre is so rare. ...

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