THIS Scott, on Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, on Mr. Thackeray, on Colonel Senior, and on Mrs. Beecher Stowe, which I contributed to the 'Quarterly,' 'Edinburgh,' 'London,' and 'North British' Reviews, from the year 1821 to the year 1857. It would perhaps have been possible to convert it into a treatise on Fiction illustrated by examples, but that would have required great labour, and one element of interest would have been withdrawn the record of the feelings which these works excited when they first came out. I have endeavoured to palliate the desultory character of the general remarks which are intermixed with the particular criticisms, by a detailed Table of Contents. N. W. SENIOR. |