Excerpt from Study and Stage: A Year-Book of Criticism
Were it not that Mr. Quiller Couch had already made use, and excellent use, of the title, I should have called this little book Adventures in Criticism. For it is one of the alleviations of the journalist-critic's in the main unenviable calling that it is above all things adventurous. He plods no mill-horse round of unvarying toil, but sallies forth day by day into the forest of contemporary literature, blissfully uncertain as to what good or evil chance may await him. Destiny, working for the most part through the instrumentality of Editors and Managers, metes out to him many a tedious and well-nigh degrading task, but docs not fail to intersperse a fair proportion of spirit-stirring and delightsome happenings. He never knows what adventure may await him round the next turn of the glade. It may be the championing of Beauty in distress, baited by a rabble rout of paynim Philistines. It may be an ambush set for him by some felon knight. It may be (and this is not the least agreeable contingency) a splintering of lances with some courteous comrade-in-arms, in defence of a contested Ideal. And ever and anon, in some richly-dight pavilion on a lilied lawn, aerial harmonics will allure him to a magic banquet, quickening alike to sense and soul.
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