Hunt, Theodore Whitefield. Literature: its principles and problems. **$1.20. Funk.
The disciplinary value ranks ahead of the culture value in the present discussion; the high-tension qualities of literature being those essential to form and structure. The idea of law and order pervades the study, and it outlines the guiding principles and methods of literature, its scope and mission, its primary aims, processes and forms, the laws that govern its orderly development and its logical relation to other great departments of human thought, its specifically intellectual and esthetic quality, and its informing genius and spirit. Its ultimate aim appears as that of suggestion and stimulus along the lines of inquiry that are opened and examined.
“For older students who want to do something in literary criticism, this book offers a good consideration of the principles and problems involved, because it is logically planned in the main and depends on a wide knowledge of literature and literary criticisms.” E. E. H. jr.
+ Bookm. 23: 453. Je. ’06. 350w.
“A book that is in many respects stimulating and suggestive. But it would be the grossest flattery to say that it is well written, or that one’s appreciation of the best in literature is forwarded by the perusal of it.”
– + Critic. 48: 569. Je. ’06. 190w.
“An unusually able, thoro, and discriminating treatment of literary questions and might be read by all serious students and teachers with great advantage to the clarity of their ideas.”
+ Ind. 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w. Lit. D. 32: 680. My. 5, ’06. 480w.
“On the topic of literary criticism we find his paragraphs involving either a slight self-contradiction or else lack of clearness in meaning. In a short chapter on ‘Hebraism and Hellenism,’ we think that the author does serious injustice to Mathew Arnold’s position.”