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...MEMORIAM...
...great middle-class of England, and though no doubt well educated, yet its literary taste or judgment is not of the highest. Mr. George McDonald, Mr. Smiles, Mr. Justin McCarthy are among the forty. However "Lord" Tennyson heads the list with 501 votes. His chief work is "In Memoriam." Next to Mr. Tennyson comes Mr. Ruskin with 462 votes; Mr. Matthew Arnold is third with 455, and Mr. Browning fourth with 448. Mr. Ruskin's chief work is, according to the number of votes it received. "Modern Painters;" Mr. Arnold's is "Literature and Dogma;" Mr. Browning's, "The Ring...
HERE are the titles of some recent articles in our exchanges: "The Cynicism of Culture," "The Influence of Doubt," "Tennyson's In Memoriam, "Tennyson's Sorrow," The Superstition of Composition," "Music among the Greeks," "Jeremy Taylor," "The Character of Banquo," and "Carlyle's Sartor Resartus." Our readers may form their judgment by these: "ex pede Herculem...