Quest and Vision: Essays on Life and Literature:

This is a valuable series of papers in their vigor of thought and grace of diction. The author has written on Shelley, Wordsworth, Longfellow, George Eliot, and George Meredith, besides essays on "Religious Doubt and Modern Poetry" and "The Poetry of Despair." The latter paper has more particular reference to the work of Matthew Arnold and James Thomson. All that Mr. Dawson writes is popular on this side of the Atlantic. In the present case his essays are alike simulative to thought and pro...