Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . point of style, the catalogue ofdistinguished essayists and critics is tor the next twenty totwenty-five years an imposingly long one. Between 1815 and1840 not only had two of the three writers above mentioneddone all their best work, and the third completed his enduringcontribution to English literature and passed away, but men soeminent in their various departments as Hazlitt, Wilson,Lockhart, Sj-dney Smit
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . point of style, the catalogue ofdistinguished essayists and critics is tor the next twenty totwenty-five years an imposingly long one. Between 1815 and1840 not only had two of the three writers above mentioneddone all their best work, and the third completed his enduringcontribution to English literature and passed away, but men soeminent in their various departments as Hazlitt, Wilson,Lockhart, Sj-dney Smith, Hallam. Cobbett, Leigh Hunt, were infull literary activity, and even within the first ten years of theperiod an essayist destined to become more famous than anyof them had made his debut in tlic ]ieriodical press in theperson of Macaulaj. If Avc put the name oJLDe Quinccy (1785-1859) first, it is LITERATUnE. 39 1332] certainly not because of any transcendent perfection in the style Deof one who is iu truth an extremely unequal writer. Were theplace to be awarded on that ]irinciplc to anyessaj^ist of theperiod it would assuredly fall to_Lliaii««-^::Tmb(l775-1834), !«»»>.. rllARLKS AND MAKV LAMll. IIY IRAXCIS STElUKX IAUEY.{Kifttonni Portnut Gallery.) who, indeed, is perhaps the most remarkable example in allliterature of a writer \vhose mere manner of sayint? the thmg—apart alto»ether from the wisdom, wit, humour, pathos, tenderness,m-banity of the thin- said, though in all of thrse qualities he isconspiruous-is anunfailing soune of delight. Something o same sort, though with an applieatiou to a tar more Imuted 40 PEACE, RETRENCnMEXT. JXD liEFOBM. [1815 list of qualities, may be said ot Walter Savage Laiidor (1775-1864), whose noble moiuiineutal style, far more truly andsuccessfully Greek than his attempted Hellenisings in verse, hasreconciled many a reader to as perversely ill-assorted a set ofpolitical and literary opinions as was ever begotten of the
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