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New York: Oxford UP, 1935. Pp. xiii + 297.

The Criterion: A Literary Review, 15 (Jan 1936) 363

This volume, No. 434 of “The World’s Classics,” comes to us from New York, but we hope that it is published in this country as well, since it is the first selection from the essays of the finest literary critic of his time. The Shelburne Essays, are so numerous that any selection so restricted as this, must appear to have something arbitrary about it. 2 These at least are chosen by their author; and their variety is such that we may presume that he had in mind to show the variety of his interest. Out of the thirteen essays, of which one is on “Criticism” itself, only two deal with American subjects: Jonathan Edwards and Thoreau. The great essay on Huxley (or we might say, on Huxley and Disraeli) is included. 3 The volume is to be considered as an introduction to, not a substitute for, the complete Shelburne Essays.

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