CRITICAL ESSAYS

REPUBLIC OF LETTERS

BY W. MACNEILE DIXON

M.A., LL.B., LITT.D.

PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND

LITERATURE IN MASON COLLEGE

BIRMINGHAM

LONDON

Published by DAVID NUTT

in the Strand

1898

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty

ΤΟ

THE REV. JOHN GWYNN, D.D., D.C.L.

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN

WITH THE AFFECTIONATE REGARD

OF THE AUTHOR