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about in a hasty review of a thousand words. It is one to be perused and appreciated at leisure--to be returned to again and again, partly because of its supreme interest, partly because it provokes, as all good books should do, a certain antagonism, partly because it is itself the product of a careful, scholarly mind, basing conclusions on a scrupulous perusal of documents and authorities.... The whole book is so full of good things that it is impossible to make any adequate selection. In an age which is not supposed to be very much interested in literary criticism, a book like Mr. Bradley's is of no little significance and importance." _SATURDAY REVIEW._--"The writer of these admirable lectures may claim what is rare even in this age of criticism--a note of his own. In type he belongs to those critics of the best order, whose view of literature is part and parcel of their view of life. His lectures on poetry are therefore what they profess to be: not scraps of textual comment, nor studies in the craft of verse-making, but broad considerations of poetry as a mode of spiritual revelation. An accomplished style and signs of careful reading we may justly demand from any professor who sets out to lecture in literature. Mr. Bradley has them in full measure. But he has also not a little of that priceless quality so seldom found in the professional or professorial critic--the capacity of naive vision and admiration. Here he is in a line with the really stimulating essayists, the artists in criticism." MACMILLAN AND CO. LTD., LONDON. _Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net._ A Commentary on Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' BY A.C. BRADLEY, LL.D., Litt.D. _THE SATURDAY REVIEW._--"Here we find a model of what a commentary on a great work should be, every page instinct with thoughtfulness; complete sympathy and appreciation; the most reverent care shown in the attempted interpretation of passages whose meaning to a large degree evades, and will always evade, readers of 'In Memoriam.' It is clear to us that Mr. Bradley has devoted long time and thought to his work, and that he has published the result of his labours simply to help those who, like himself, have been and are in difficulties as to the drift of various passages. He is not of course the first who has addressed himself to the interpretation of 'In Memoriam'--in this spirit ... but Mr. Bradley's commentary is sure to take rank as the most searching and scholarly
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