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...beautiful things of tragedy and pathos, without trying to teach; while in his prose he is ever intent upon teaching. In his essays his great aim is to reform the Philistine. Another guise in which Matthew Arnold appears to us is as the gentle critic of pure literature; the reader and the commentator of the best things, which he wished to see prevail. In this character he wrote his essay on Keats, which gives such pleasure to lovers of Keats, and his essay on Shelley, which gives less pleasure to the friends of Shelley. Arnold was an ideal educator...
...making the most heroic efforts to overcome the poison of her passion. Before we finish the play she has not only succeeded in interesting us, but she has won our pity and sympathy; nothing could be a greater tribute to the genius of Racine than this acknowledgment which every reader of the play must make...
...literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader of Dowden or Fleay can say that...
Realizing perfectly that the impulse of the reader who comes upon the words "loyal support of the eleven" is to toss his paper aside with some such remark as "the same old drool," we nevertheless once more venture a few words on the subject...
...countries. Now, there is at the present time a pressing need and call for a complete bibliography of Civil Service literature, and if the scattered references could be collected, they would prove of great service. No better place could be found than Harvard for this work, and if each reader who comes across a page or paragraph devoted to the Civil Service would but send the reference to me, it would become a valuable part of a Civil Service Index. To aid those who would like to lend a hand in the work I add an example...