Mr. Simonds' title-page shows one that he took his doctor's degree at Strassburg and is now Professor of English Literature at Knox College (Illinois). These two facts are well worth noticing because of the comparative rarity of publication by the overworked professors of our Western colleges, and because nine out of ten men who go into our chairs of "English," after German university training, do philological rather than literary work. The significance of Professor Simonds' volume does not depend on its size, and will be ...
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Mr. Simonds' title-page shows one that he took his doctor's degree at Strassburg and is now Professor of English Literature at Knox College (Illinois). These two facts are well worth noticing because of the comparative rarity of publication by the overworked professors of our Western colleges, and because nine out of ten men who go into our chairs of "English," after German university training, do philological rather than literary work. The significance of Professor Simonds' volume does not depend on its size, and will be apparent to all observers of the trend of the collegiate study of literature in this country. The book contains an outline history of the development of English fiction, occupying some seventy pages, chronological tables, and a list of one hundred works of fiction, English and continental, "which for one reason or another are worth reading" So far as It goes the volume is suggestive to teachers. -The Review of Reviews, Volume 11
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