10 SEPTEMBER 1910, Page 26

Memories of Swinburne, with other Essays. By W. G. Blaikie

Murdoch. (J. and J. Gray. 35. 6d.)—In this volume we have a republication of various critical essays which have appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine and elsewhere. There is no end of criticising criticism, and we may briefly say that, though we have some differences of opinion, we find the book worthy of its subjects. But is it not a strange dictum that a man may be a great critic, in spite of mistakes, if "he expresses memorably his own individual point of view " ? Suppose we say : "X was a great Judge, though ho condemned the innocent and acquitted the guilty, because he expreised memorably his mistaken conclusions."