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DEFINITIONS

ESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
BY

HENRY SEIDEL CANBY, Ph.D.

Editor of The Literary Review of The New York Evening Post, and a member of the English Department of Yale University.

NEW YORK

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of The Atlantic
Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The Century Magazine, The Literary
Review of The New York Evening Post, The Bookman, The Nation, and
The North American Review
for permission to reprint such of
these essays as have appeared in their columns.