Letters from the Dead to the Dead

THIS is a remarkable book, whether for the lover of landscape or the lover of poetry. The author has both keen critical judgment and exquisite poetic sensibility; he is, indeed, equally well known as poet and as critic. The present work is enlarged from lectures delivered at Oxford in 1895, and partly with an eye to the university extension system by which the sphere of the institution has been so happily widened in recent years. It is mainly with reference to this latter class of students ...