Excerpt from The Religion of a Literary Man: Religio Scriptoris N spite of valiant exemplars to the contrary, we would seem to insist more and more that the writer, like the tailor, is but the ninth part of a man and that one of those poor literary infusoria, 'the minor poets, ' should have his speculations on the greater issues of life, that he should, like the Hottentot, have his 'idea of Supreme Being, ' is matter for boundless astonishment. Many ln deed would seem to find the idea hugely amusing. To what a fall in the general estimation of poetry does this point.

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