Ofa scholar's hard and long- continued work HE ordinary mode of criticising the results. UNWIN BROTHERS, PRINTERS, BUCKLERSBURY, LONDON.ĮNVOYÉ EXTRAORDINAIRE ET MINISTRE PLÉNIPOTENTIARE, Do you think, young author, that those easy incisive sentences, those quiet sly touches, those pretty turns of Sterne, or Fielding, or Thackeray, came by chance ? If you do, you are as big a blunderer as Dogberry, when he declared that reading and writing were the gift of Nature."- Modern Men of Letters Honestly Criticised (1870) by James Hain Friswell Nothing in the world is there like it for style. These penny romances were not vicious, though morbidly exciting one called " Sweeney Todd or, the String of Pearls," related how a certain barber in Fleet Street cut the throats of his customers, and then sunk them down a trap to a kitchen, where they were made into, and whence they issued, as mutton-pies! We doubt if our eccentric genius wrote such stories, but certainly he worked hard and honestly at whatever came up, and we wish to heaven that some of the superfine, satin-wove, hot-pressed, gilt- edged, and fashionable novelists worked half as well and had had the same practice. Radcliffe school, which our best novelists of to-day have copied, such as " Adah, the Betrayed or, the Murder at the Old Smithy," " Julia, the Deserted," and the like. Edward Lloyd, of Salisbury Square, certain romances of the Mrs. ![]() He is of a mature age- let us say forty-five-and has worked for the press nearly thirty years out of that, for he began early, and it is whispered wrote at one time for the excelling Mr. ![]() Sala, who in the flesh is goguenard, jovial, and externally something like Bardolph, is a very severe censor when he chooses.
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