Critical and Social Essays. Reprinted from the New York Nation.
(Low, Son, and Marston.)—Some of these papers are amusing, but they are too much in the nature of flyleaves to make up a volume. Even the most telling social articles in the Saturday Review do not always bear reprinting. They seemed exhaustive when they were read as parts of a weekly journal, and they contained quite as much thought and observation as sufficed for their life of seven days. But on their being put together in a book and bound solemnly between two boards, they lose all this prestige of novelty, and are seen to be too short. The papers in the Nation are even shorter. Perhaps it is the object of this collection of articles to answer the question pat by one of them about the absence of a Saturday Review in America. We are afraid that they establish the fact, even if they do not solve the problem.
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