Fifty years ago . e Pick-wick Papers ; Lord Lytton, then Mr. Lytton Bulwer, hadalready before that year published five novels, includingPaul Clifford and The Last Days of Pompeii. Tenny-son had already issued the Poems, by Two Brothers,and Poems chiefly Lyrical. Disraeli had written The Young Duke, Vivian Grey, and had published Paracelsus and Strafford ;Marryat began in 1834 ; Carlyle published the SartorEesartus in 1832. But one must not estimate a periodby its Ijeginners. All these writers belong to the fol-lowing thirty years of the century. If we look forthose who were fl
Fifty years ago . e Pick-wick Papers ; Lord Lytton, then Mr. Lytton Bulwer, hadalready before that year published five novels, includingPaul Clifford and The Last Days of Pompeii. Tenny-son had already issued the Poems, by Two Brothers,and Poems chiefly Lyrical. Disraeli had written The Young Duke, Vivian Grey, and had published Paracelsus and Strafford ;Marryat began in 1834 ; Carlyle published the SartorEesartus in 1832. But one must not estimate a periodby its Ijeginners. All these writers belong to the fol-lowing thirty years of the century. If we look forthose who were flourishing—that is, those who wereproducing their best work—it will be found that thisdecade was singularly poor. The principal name is 184 FIFTY YEARS AGO that of Hood. There were also Hartley Coleridge, DouglasJerrold, Procter, Sir Archibald Alison, Theodore Hook,G. P. E. James, Charles Knight, Sir Henry Taylor,Milman, Ebenezer Elliott, Harriet Martineau, JamesMontgomery, Talfourd, Henry Brougham, Jjady Bles-. CHAELES KNIGHT(From a Photograph by Hughes & Mullius, Kegina House, Eydc, ol Wight) sington, Harrison Ainsworth, and some others of lessernote. This is not a ver}^ imposing array. On the otherhand, nearly all the great writers whom Ave associatewith the first thirty years of the century were living,thousli their best work was done. After sixtv, I takeit, the hand of t]ie master may still work witli llie old
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