"No recent book on the subject is so novel, so readable, or so questionable."--_New York Times Saturday Review._ Small 12mo, Cloth, 268 pp. 80 cts., post-paid FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers NEW YORK and LONDON * * * * * +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Notes: | | | | Page 7: Double quotes inside double quotes in Hallam | | quotation replaced with single quotes. | | Page 9: Closing quotes moved from after "says Brandes" to | | follow "... at the sight." | | Page 20: strangset amended to strangest | | Page 56: insteading amended to instead | | Page 72: be amended to he ("he begins") | | Page 80: "... the then fashionable euphemism": There is a | | possibility that "euphuism" should have been used, rather | | than "euphemism." | | Page 96: Closing quotes added after "... an artistic | | impression." | | Page 102: Beaudelaire _sic_ | | Page 165: Mirander amended to Miranda | +--------------------------------------------------------------+