"Tolley rejects the current pragmatic, utilitarian, epicurean mode of life. He pleads for the liberal arts, for general education, and for a gentler more studious life style. And he tells how these are to be attained. . . . Refreshing. Tolley seems to know whereof he writes and confines his concerns to certain core aspects."—Choice
"Tolley's commitment to the necessity of continuous reading as the sine qua non of any description of the educated
life is to be praised."—Educational Studies
