"The rest of the book is too mediocre to occupy us."

Exam reading. The cracking wit of an otherwise bone-dry study of French aesthetic theory – Histoire de l'Esthétique Française 1700-1900 (1920).

... The rest of the book is too mediocre to occupy us....:

 

... His aesthetic is grounded on absolutely nothing; therefore all the criticisms we can heap on Cousin, we can repeat with even more severity when judging the aesthetic of Lamennais... :

 

 .... We could not cite the passages in which this [ aftorementioned] idea is developed, because one would have to copy the entire book....

This scholar Théodore M. Mustoxidi was author of only one other book – Qu'est-ce que la mode? also of 1920.