Letters to Living Authors

admire ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE American Andrew Lang artist beautiful better Biglow Papers British Carlyle century character charming Chiefs of Dunboy courage critic dare say Deemster delight doctrines Elsie England English excellent eyes feel fiction genius George Eliot George Meredith give Goethe HALL CAINE hand Hawthorne heart Henry Fielding honour human humorist humour imagination impression intellectual interesting JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER John Ridd judgment lady literary literature LIVING AUTHORS Lorna Doone Lowell matter Matthew Arnold mind moral nature ness never noble novelist novels once opinion past perfect perhaps pleasure poet poetic poetry popular portrait Princess of Thule prose qualities reader realistic Robert Elsmere romance seems sense sentiment Shakespeare song soul spirit stand style sure taste things thought tion touch true truth unmatched verse Victor Hugo Walter Scott word writer written