The paper on “The Degradation of Scholarship” has never before appeared in print. Let the reader, divested of every predilection and bias, examine it carefully, remembering that the courage to state the truth is a more valuable asset of character than the gift of bestowing false praise, though that praise should secure friends.

T. O’H.

Toronto, Canada, March, 1909.


CONTENTS.

PAGE
[A Study of Tennyson’s “Princess”]11
[Poetry and History Teaching Falsehood]45
[The Study and Interpretation of Literature]65
[The Degradation of Scholarship]83
[The Italian Renaissance and the Popes of Avignon]101

A STUDY OF TENNYSON’S

“PRINCESS”