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Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall. Studies in Literature and History
Studies in Literature and History
Table of Contents
PREFACE
FOOTNOTES:
ENGLISH LETTER-WRITING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY[7]
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THACKERAY
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THE ANGLO-INDIAN NOVELIST[12]
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HEROIC POETRY[16]
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THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON[24]
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THE ENGLISH UTILITARIANS[28]
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CHARACTERISTICS OF MR. SWINBURNE'S POETRY[31]
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FRONTIERS ANCIENT AND MODERN[38]
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L'EMPIRE LIBÉRAL[41]
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SIR SPENCER WALPOLE[54]
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REMARKS ON THE READING OF HISTORY[55]
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RACE AND RELIGION[56]
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THE STATE IN ITS RELATION TO EASTERN AND WESTERN RELIGIONS
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INDEX
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Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Here we have reached, in this conscientious explanation of method, the extreme point of remoteness from the original spirit of historic romance. Archdeacon Farrar's figures and descriptions are worked out upon the pattern of a mosaic, by piecing together the loose fragmentary bits of our knowledge regarding life and society under Nero. A glance at these books shows that they belong to the latest school of nineteenth-century fiction, to a period when careful scholarly accumulation of accessories and adroit adaptation of history have taken the place, not only of convention and clumsy invention, but also of the free untrammelled handling of types and traditions which gave freshness and originality to the simpler forms of early romance.
We believe, then, that these attempts at exact reproduction, this method of the multiplication of particulars, involve a fallacy, and are detrimental to the more enduring forms of art. But the people is willing to be deceived; the general reader has acquired a taste that must be gratified; with the result that the elder romancers in prose and verse, including Scott and Byron, are falling out of fashion with the middle classes, though Scott holds his own in the sixpenny edition. The rule of Realism is becoming so despotic that the story of adventure is reverting more and more to that shape which lends itself most completely to life-like narrative, the shape of a Memoir. And it may be pointed out accordingly that in France the Editor of Memoirs has lately entered into substantial rivalry with the Novelist of Adventure.
