Criticism Books

Style and the Man

Meredith Nicholson

Few writers of the Victorian period wielded a more flexible English than Matthew Arnold, and few writers of any period have shown greater versatility. His power of direct statement was very great and ..

Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature

Charles C. Bombaugh

Literature, as an English writer remarks, is “not a matter of paper and ink, but a human voice speaking to human beings; a voice, or rather a collection of voices, from generation to generation, speak..

Short Story-Writing - An Art or a Trade?

N. Bryllion Fagin

Professor Arlo Bates in one of his talks on writing English once said: “Given a reasonable intelligence and sufficient patience, any man with the smallest gifts may learn to write at least marketable ..

The supernatural in early Spanish literature

Frank Callcott

It has been the aim of the author in the following study to collect, classify, and analyze the various references made in the works of Alfonso X, el Sabio, to the beliefs and superstitions, of the Spa..

In and About Drury Lane, and Other Papers, Vol. 2

Dr. John Doran

That English society wanted refinement in the first decade of the present century is not to be disputed. When Mr. Jackson returned from long diplomatic service abroad in 1806, he dined one day at Lord..

Iolaus

Edward Carpenter

The degree to which Friendship, in the early history of the world, has been recognised as an institution, and the dignity ascribed to it, are things hardly realized to-day. Yet a very slight examinati..

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations

H. G. Adams

The favour with which our former compilation—the “Cyclopædia of Poetical Quotations”—was received, and the numerous calls which we had for an extension of the plan of that work, induced us to determin..

Satire in the Victorian novel

Frances Theresa Russell

The indifferent or repellent nature of a subject, even though triple distilled, has nothing to do, however, with its value as a topic for investigation. I present this study neither as apologist nor e..