Note 884 — Chapter I · THE SUCCESSORS OF SAINTE-BEUVE.
Reading edition
La Critique Scientifique (Paris, 1888), followed by Études de Crit. Scient., in two series (1889 and 1890). I am under the impression that Hennequin owed something—perhaps a good deal—to Mr H. M. Posnett’s Comparative Literature (London, 1886), a book which, for the usual reason, escapes our survey. It may, however, be observed that “Comparative Literature” is a very awkward phrase, neither really representing “Littérature Comparée” nor really analogous to “Comparative Anatomy.” “Comparative Study of Literature” would be all right: otherwise “Comparative Criticism” or “Rhetoric” is wanted.