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Show TC STZSIT 07 CSZTZCZaI Literary criticism was a bugbear to Prof.,' Eraser when he occupied a chair at Johns Hopkins unlrerslty. Bo stu: diously arolded reading book reriews and had m patience with the spirit' la which many of them were written, j' Modern cridcism.,. said he, when asked to explain his arerslon, "seems to mo to consist largely in measuring the "wisdom and learning qf others by, the critic's own ignorance. "Why, one' x celebrated critic laid down a rule that no author caa succeed in describing what he has not experienced. . He orer looks the fact that Dante had not btu. In hell nor Milton In paradise." ?Q |