FRIDAY NIGHTS Literary Criticisms and Appreciations

In Edward Garnett, whose "Friday Nights" which appeared almost a hundred years ago, we come as near as we are likely to come in our time to the first-hand, the real critic. He is by profession a publisher's reader, which makes the fact all the more remarkable. Working all the week for a commercial interest which, however dignified, can never coincide with immortal interests, so to speak, he was in the habit of pleasing himself on Friday nights and writing essays on his private favorites. He has …