Eugene Paul Nassar writes that “criticism ought to be the art or act of responding with precision to the subtlest tonalities of a unique work of art.” The essays in this issue of Mosaic do just that, attending to Christian charity in Herman Melville’s “The Two Temples”; the poetry of Jean-Pierre Burgart; David Hartley’s thought, structure and meaning in William Blake’s “The Mental Traveller”; a consideration of the sixteenth-century architect and humanist Andrea Palladio; La Nouvelle Revue Française between 1909 and 1914; Henrik Ibsen’s play The Wild Duck; Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49; August Strindberg; and Jean Racine’s Phèdre.