THIRD SERIES: The Correspondence of William Cowper--Whittier the Poet--The Centenary of Sainte-Beuve--The Scotch Novels and Scotch History--Swinburne--Christina Rossetti--Why is Browning Popular?--A Note on Byron's "Don Juan"--Laurence Sterne--J. Henry Shorthouse--The Quest. G. P. Putnam's Sons New York London _A Few Press Criticisms on Shelburne Essays_ "It is a pleasure to hail in Mr. More a genuine critic, for genuine critics in America in these days are uncommonly scarce.... We recommend, as a sample of his breadth, style, acumen, and power the essay on Tolstoy in the present volume. That represents criticism that has not merely a metropolitan but a world note.... One is thoroughly grateful to Mr. More for the high quality of his thought, his serious purpose, and his excellent style."--_Harvard Graduates' Magazine._ "We do not know of any one now writing who gives evidence of a better critical equipment than Mr. More. It is rare nowadays to find a writer so thoroughly familiar with both ancient and modern thought. It is this width of view, this intimate acquaintance with so much of the best that has been thought and said in the world, irrespective of local prejudice, that constitute Mr. More's strength as a critic. He has been able to form for himself a sound literary canon and a sane philosophy of life which constitute to our mind his peculiar merit as a critic."--_Independent._ "He is familiar with classical, Oriental, and English literature; he uses a temperate, lucid, weighty, and not ungraceful style; he is aware of his best predecessors, and is apparently on the way to a set of philosophic principles which should lead him to a high and perhaps influential place in criticism.... We believe that we are in the presence of a critic who must be counted among the first who take literature and life for their theme."--_London Speaker._ G. P. Putnam's Sons New York London The Jessica Letters An Editor's Romance By Paul E. More and Mrs. Lundy Howard Harris Crown octavo. Net, $1.10. (By mail, $1.25.) The correspondence between a young New York Editor and a young Southern woman. The book is above all a love story. The letters are full of wit and refreshing frankness. The situations are delightfully romantic, and the work contains some of the prettiest love-making that has appeared for years. "It is altogether a charming book. Beautifully printed, bound in a dainty apple-blossom cover, and written in a clean-cut, forceful style. Jessica's letters are bright, witty, and delicately poetic. They introduce to the reader a mind of rare charm, originality, and independence."--Rev. THOMAS DIXON, Jr.