Views and Reviews

"'Yes, bless you!' said Mr. Macey, pausing, and smiling in pity at the impatience of his hearer's imagination,--'why, I was all of a tremble; it was as if I'd been a coat pulled...

"'Why, you don't like that, you silly. You may have it if it comes to you fair, but I sha'n't give it to you without. Right or left,--you choose now. Ha-a-a!' said Tom, in a ton...

We may here remark, that Mr. Arnold's statement of his principles is open to some misinterpretation,--an accident against which he has, perhaps, not sufficiently guarded it. For...

This is natural enough, I suppose, and the taste of the day must travel to its opportunity's end. But I do not believe that Byron has passed, by any means, and I do not think th...

The adventures of these wanderers, told by one of their number, Rolf the Norseman, born at Byzantium--a happy origin for the teller of a heroic tale, as the author doubtless fel...

"No poet is less forgettable than Ford; none fastens (as it were) the fangs of his genius and his will more deeply in your memory. You cannot shake hands with him and pass him b...

The most striking quality in _The Spanish Gypsy_, on a first reading, I think, is its extraordinary rhetorical energy and elegance. The richness of the author's style in her nov...

_Queen Mary_, I believe, is to be put upon the stage next winter in London. I do not pretend to forecast its success in representation; but it is not indiscrete to say that it w...

What do we get in return for accepting Miss Jenny Wren as a possible person? This young lady is the type of a certain class of characters of which Mr. Dickens has made a special...

Few people will deny that the development of criticism in our day has become inordinate, disproportionate, and that much of what is written under that exalted name is very idle...

"O lady, constancy has kind and rank. One man's is lordly, plump, and bravely clad, Holds its head high, and tells the world its name: Another man's is beggared, must go bare, A...

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Many of these, certainly, are into a region not to be designated as superficially dim, though indeed the author always reminds us that India is above all the land of mystery. A...