entertain the reader, and may prove to be suggestive. A few of the following pages have already seen the light in various publications, although they now stand in their places without any acknowledgment of a previous appearance. They are so few in number, and, having been rewritten, are so altered in form, that it would have been difficult, and it seemed to be needless, to introduce them with the usual marks of quotation. E. S. D. THE CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. Significance of the Title.-Originally applied to Poetry.-Here to CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF CRITICISM. Page 3 Criticism in its widest sense does not contain within itself the notion - mar. The systematic Criticism of Germany-The defect, as in CHAPTER III. THE DESPAIR OF A SCIENCE. The despair of Critical Science not surprising.-What we set before too recent to be accused of fruitlessness.-(2) The despair .. Page 47 CHAPTER IV. THE CORNER STONE. Object of this chapter to prove a truism.-Truisms sometimes Beautiful, two facts fatal to it.-That Art is the mani- CHAPTER V. THE AGREEMENT OF THE CRITICS. Survey of the schools of Criticism-their divisions.-All the schools |