Cobwebs of criticismA review of the first reviewers of the 'Lake', 'Satanic', and 'Cockney' schools . xpression. To the living,this Review of Reviewers will, I trust, be helpful ;but will it be hurtful to the dead ? Surely not. Theauthors here dealt with are beyond irritation at thetouch of an infirmity, and it cannot do them wrongto show where they were believed to be open toattack. The petty passions have subsided that oncebore down these great names. Slander is impotentexcept where it meets with a lover of slander ; and noone now is more disposed to believe the charges of TheLiterary Gazett
Cobwebs of criticismA review of the first reviewers of the 'Lake', 'Satanic', and 'Cockney' schools . xpression. To the living,this Review of Reviewers will, I trust, be helpful ;but will it be hurtful to the dead ? Surely not. Theauthors here dealt with are beyond irritation at thetouch of an infirmity, and it cannot do them wrongto show where they were believed to be open toattack. The petty passions have subsided that oncebore down these great names. Slander is impotentexcept where it meets with a lover of slander ; and noone now is more disposed to believe the charges of TheLiterary Gazette against Shelley, than those of Salma-sius against Milton. This is one of the legacies that theyears leave us. Time buries away the worthless andthe little out of our sight, for Eternity looks throughTime, and only the giant figures of his limitlesslandscape stand revealed against its light, even as 266 Cobwebs of Criticism. only the highest headlands stand dipped in the greyof dawn, when the risen sun looks through the frettedclouds behind them, and all the sleeping moorlandslie veiled in Elliot Stock, Paternoster Row, London. I BY THE SAME 8vo., pp. xiii., 297, 7s. 6d. post free. RECOLLECTIONS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Mr. Caine has furnished a pleasant book, and a book that, thanks to itssubject, must —AthencEum. Mr. Hall Caine lifts the curtain with a bold hand, but also in the reverentspirit of a true disciple, from the inmost chambers where a great and unhappyartist passed his days and nights. ... In these pages Mr. Hall Cainereveals no common powers of observation and description, a clear andtrenchant style of character-delineation, adequate critical faculties, and thatindescribable sympathy with things and thoughts and words and personswhich gives vivacity to hterary talent.—J. A. Symonds—Academy. His work lacks both reticence and the sense of proportion. . Theresult is far from being a judicious piece of biography. . Physicaland othe
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