Now acute observers know that what may be called the disease of contemporary partisanship rarely even begins till the undergraduate period, and is at its severest from twenty-five to thirty-five.

I would undertake that most of our reviewers who discover Shakespeares and Sainte-Beuves, improved Thackerays and bettered Molieres, week by week or day by day, count their years between these limits.

_Beati illi_ from some points of view, but from others, if they go on longer, Heaven help them indeed! But all this is really idle.

A critic is not right or wrong because he is young or old as the case may be; because he follows the taste of his age or runs counter to it; because he likes the past or because he likes the present.

He is right or wrong according as he does or does not like the right things in the right way.