. Bill Nye's history of the United States. ld on at THE WEBSTERS. 239 the table, it does not hold the interest of thereader all the way through. He has introduced too many characters into hisbook at the expense of the plot. It is a goodbook to pick up and while away a leisure hour,perhaps, but it is not a work that could rivet yourinterest till midnight, while the fire went out andthe thermometer stepped down to 47° below do not hurry through the pages to seewhether Reginald married the girl or not. did not seem to care how the affairturned out. Therein consists the great d
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. ld on at THE WEBSTERS. 239 the table, it does not hold the interest of thereader all the way through. He has introduced too many characters into hisbook at the expense of the plot. It is a goodbook to pick up and while away a leisure hour,perhaps, but it is not a work that could rivet yourinterest till midnight, while the fire went out andthe thermometer stepped down to 47° below do not hurry through the pages to seewhether Reginald married the girl or not. did not seem to care how the affairturned out. Therein consists the great difference betweenNoah and myself. He doesnt keep up the inter-est. A friend of mine at Sing Sing, who securedone of my books, said henever left his room till hehad devoured it. He saidhe seemed chained to thespot; and if you cantbelieve a convict who isentirely out of politics,whom, in the name ofGeorge Washington, canyou trust? Mr. Webster was cer-tainly a most brilliantwriter, though a littleinclined, perhaps, to be never left his room. TILL HE HAD DEVOURED IT. 240 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. wordy. I have discovered in some of his laterbooks one hundred and eighteen thousand wordsno two of which are alike. This shows greatfluency and versatility, it is true, but we needsomething else. The reader waits in vain to bethrilled by the authors wonderful is not a thrill in the whole tome. I had heard so much of Mr. Webster that whenI read his book I confess I was disappointed. Itis cold, methodical, dry, and dispassionate in theextreme, and one cannot help comparing it withthe works of James Fenimore Cooper and Horace. As I said, however, it is a good book to pickup for the purpose of whiling away an idle one should travel without Mr. Websters who examine this tale will readily see whythere were no flies on the author. He kept themoff with this tale. It is a good book, as I say, to take up for amoment, or to read on the train, or to hold th
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