...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...but we shall have the justice also to recognise in him one of the greatest artists of our generation, and, in many ways, one of the greatest art- ists... ...nd further from writing the Address to a Louse. Yet Burns, like most great artists, proceeded from a school and contin- ued a tradition; only the scho... ...e extent the moral of his own career. He was among the least impersonal of artists. Except in the Jolly Beggars, he shows no gleam of dramatic instinc... ...ime to study virtue, and between whiles to conduct the imperial affairs of Rome; but Thoreau is so busy improving himself, that he must think twice ab... ...brimful of the longing to travel, and supported him in the toils of study. Rome was the dream of his life; he was never happier than when he read or t... ...ty retire, thou dost my pity move” – “It is decreed, nor shall thy fate, O Rome;” – open and dignified in the sound, various and majestic in the senti...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...