Criticism Books

The Ontario Readers - Third Book by Ontario

Ontario Ministry of Education

The Ontario Readers: Third Book by Ontario is a collection of essays by Ontario Ministry of Education...

A Study of Fairy Tales

Laura Fry Kready

One of the problems of present-day education is to secure for the entire school system, from the kindergarten to the university, a curriculum which shall have a proved and permanent value. In this cur..

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton

These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of rece..

The Victorian Age in Literature

G. K. Chesterton

A section of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyère cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as..

A Popular History of the Art of Music

W. S. B. Mathews

Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and m..

The Art of Poetry - an Epistle to the Piso

Horace Walpole

The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos is a Latin didactic poetry written by Horace Walpole, an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. ..

Halleck's New English Literature

Reuben Post Halleck

In this New English Literature the author endeavors to preserve the qualities that have caused his former History of English Literature to be so widely used; namely, suggestiveness, clearness, organic..

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

Charles Herbert Sylvester

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 is a collection of Children's literature compiled by Charles Herbert Sylvester...