re exaggerated in this. The
rush of half-draped figures, and the pushing and crowding of weak and
unruly fancies, are too obviously unpleasant for comment. Perhaps they
are most unpleasant in the Song with a Prelude which opens with the
bewildering statement that

"Yon moored mackerel fleet
Hangs thick as a swarm of bees,
Or a clustering village street
Foundationless built on the seas."

_Critical and Social Essays._ Reprinted from the New York
"Nation." New York: Leypoldt and Holt.

These brief papers very fairly represent the quality of the excellent
journal from which they are taken, and treat subjects suggested by
literary events and social characteristics with a bright intelligence
and an artistic feeling only too uncommon in our journalism. All the
essays are good, and several are of quite unique merit. The first in the
volume, entitled "The Glut in the Fiction Market," is full of a
felicitous badinage and an exquisite power of travesty, which we should
not know how to match elsewhere. The author of this admirable paper
wrote also, as we imagine, the essays on "Some of our Social
Philosophers," "Critics and Criticism," and "Voyages and Travels," which
are the best of the humorous articles in the volume. The graver essays
are almost as good in their way as these, and we especially like "Why we
have no Saturday Reviewers," "Popularizing Science," "Something about
Monuments," and "American Ministers abroad." The paper on "The European
and American Order of Thought" considers the subject with an originality
and penetration which we would willingly have had applied in a more
extended study of it.

In fine, we like all these articles from "The Nation," for the reasons
that we like "The Nation" itself, which has been, in a degree singular
among newspapers, conscientious and candid in literary matters; while in
affairs of social and political interest it has shown itself friendly to
everything that could advance civilization, and notably indifferent to
the claims of persons and parties.

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