Essays On Fiction - Softcover

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This book was nearly through the press when Mr. Senior was seized with i Uness so serious as to prevent his adding the j Snal touches. The whole, however, had been carefully prepared; perhaps too carefully, for it would have been interesting to compare the early, somewhat exuberant style in which the reviews of Scott were written, with the terse condensed sentences of the later articles. But the few hues with which he would have reintroduced these papers to the pubhc are a more important loss. He would have felt that to send forth the notice on the greatest nove Ust of our own day, Wi Uiam Makepeace Thackeray, without one word of explanation or of regret, into a world still smarting from his loss, would have been treason to the friendship which united both author and reviewer. To ears in which the sound of the last strokes of the funeral knell still lingers, this criticism will probably seem severe; but when the article first appeared, Mr.
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