ABSTRACT
October 1874, cxxxvii, 389–415
Educated at Harrow and Corpus Christi, William John Court-hope (1842–1917) had just recently (1869) come to London to serve in the Education Office when he wrote this ambitious survey of the modern ‘Girondins’, Goethe, Carlyle, and Arnold. Following a long discussion of their ideas – see our introduction for a summary – Courthope here concentrates on modern criticism and its reliance on ‘tact’.
