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... PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN..............

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................................................. 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES ..................................................................... ................................................................. 107 CHAPTER VI – FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER .........117 CHAPTER ... ...RANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER .........117 CHAPTER VII – CHARLES OF ORLEANS ........................................................... ...myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five romances s... ... that complete Arabian Nights to which we have all so long looked forward. CHARLES OF ORLEANS. – Perhaps I have done scanty justice to the charm of th... ...e can render just as easily the flourish of trum- pets before a victorious emperor and the gossip of country market women, the gradual decay of forty ... ...anic, if not an incoherent, presentation of both the poems and the man. Of Holy Willie ’s Prayer, Principal Shairp remarks that “those who have loved ... ...eme so uncongenial. When we find a man writing on Burns, who likes neither Holy Willie, nor the Beg- gars, nor the Ordination, nothing is adequate to ... ...e who is solemn in the face of an audi- ence somewhat indecorously amused. VI. LASTLY, AS MOST IMPORTANT, after all, to human beings in our disputable...