THE STUDY OF CELTIC LITERATURE. BY MATTHEW ARNOLD, PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL. 270. e. 27. INTRODUCTION. THE following remarks on the study of Celtic Literature formed the substance of four lectures given by me last year and the year before in the chair of poetry at Oxford. They were first published in the Cornhill Magazine, and are now reprinted from thence. Again and again, in the course of them, I have marked the very humble scope intended; which is, not to treat any special branch of scientific Celtic studies (a task for which I am quite incompetent), but to point out the many directions in which the results of those studies offer matter of general interest, and to insist on the benefit we may all derive from knowing the Celt and things Celtic more thoroughly, It was |