FROM

"The Critic"

BY

JOHN BURROUGHS

EDMUND C. STEDMAN

WALT WHITMAN

R. H. STODDARD

F. B. SANBORN

THE essays and sketches of which this volume is composed are taken, as the name implies, from "The Critic." In the conviction that some, if not all of them, are, despite their brevity, of permanent literary value, it has been deemed well to reproduce them in a form more durable than that of a fortnightly review. This step is rendered doubly advisable by the fact that some of the earlier numbers of "The Critic" are already out of print.

CONTENTS.

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I. THOREAU'S WILDNESS. John Burroughs

II. WILLIAM BLAKE, POET

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PAINTER.

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Edward

IV. DEATH OF LONGFELlow. Walt Whitman

V. GEORGE ELIOT AND THE NOVEL.

VI. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. R. H. Stoddard,
VII. THOREAU'S UNPUBLISHED POETRY. F. B.

IX. A COMPANY OF SPRING POETS. Edith M.

X. NATURE IN LITERATURE. John Burroughs

XI. AUSTIN DOBSON. E. W. Gosse

XIII. THE BOSTON CULTURE. J. H. Morse

XIV. THE LATE SIDNEY LANIER. E. C. Stedman

XV. ENGLISH SOCIETY AND ENDYMION. Julia Ward

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