ABSTRACT
The literary critic is often puzzled how to classify the intellectual phenomena that come within his ken. His business is of couR~e primarily with literature. A work may be infinitely amusing, it may abound even with flashes and touches of genius, and yet the form in which it comes into the world may be so crude, so coarse, so erring from the ways of true classicism, so offensive to immemorial canons of taste, that the critic, in spite of his enjoyment and wonder, puts it reluctantly down in the category of unclassif1able literary things-only to take it np and e1~oy it again!
