Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mistakes; granted that Mr. Furnivall's attack upon Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps was unjust as the Advocate's own attack upon the Society; granted that Mr. Aldis Wright, whose ability we are not disposed to question, considers Mr. Hudson (whom we certainly did not confound with Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps) a critic whose opinion is worth hearing (a marvellous circumstance, surely, since the latter confines himself almost entirely to the "sign-post criticism" which the former deprecates); granted that Professor Child has on one or two occasions found it necessary to disagree with some of his fellow Shaksperians, - what have all these...
...valuable papers are read, and important questions discussed, and reports of the proceedings are forwarded to the members. Thus, by joining the Society, one obtains the larger part of all that is best and freshest in the line of Shakspere study. It is very well to praise the slashing criticism which is so popular and so unsound; to magnify the merits of a certain Boston University critic, whose ignorance is only equalled by his audacity; to depreciate men who, like Dr. Furness, can really add something of value to Shaksperian literature; but we believe that those admirers and those critics...