A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

book can be said to be, in any sense of the word, popular. In discussing

this important subject of conversation, he has not merely followed the scientific method of Aristotle which is, perhaps, excusable, but he has adopted the literary style of Aristotle for which no excuse is possible. There is, also, hardly a single anecdote, hardly a single illustration, and the reader is left ...