W. B. Yeats Has Created, If Not

Mystery Lies Over The Sea. Every Ship Is Bound For Thule.

We Cannot Get Happiness By Striving After It, And Yet With An Effort We Can Impart It.

On The Whole, However, The Critic Is Far Less Of A Professional Faultfinder Than Is Sometimes Imagined. He Is First Of All A Virtue-finder, A Singer Of Praise. He Is Not Concerned With Getting Rid Of Dross Except In So Far As It Hides The Gold. In Other Words, The Destructive Side Of Criticism Is Purely A Subsidiary Affair. None Of The Best Critics Have Been Men Of Destructive Minds. They Are Like Gardeners Whose Business Is More With The Flowers Than With The Weeds.

Dostoevsky's Visible World Was A World Of Sensationalism. He May In The Last Analysis Be A Great Mystic Or A Great Psychologist; But He Almost Always Reveals His Genius On A Stage Crowded With People Who Behave Like The Men And Women One Reads About In The Police News.

Mr. Shaw Came For A Short Time Recently To Be Regarded Less As An Author Than As An Incident In The European War. In The Opinion Of Many People It Seemed As If The Allies Were Fighting Against A Combination Composed Of Germany, Austria-hungary, Turkey, And Mr. Shaw.