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 . hich in itselfassures for them a humorouseffect; but speaking gener-ally, his art, in its mechan-ical realism, stands related toThackerays as that of thecheap photographer to themasterly portrait - is the couunonplace car-ried to its highest power;and the fact that for so longa series of years he stoodunquestioned at the head of his branch of the literary ]irofession and counnanded a publicso lar
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 . hich in itselfassures for them a humorouseffect; but speaking gener-ally, his art, in its mechan-ical realism, stands related toThackerays as that of thecheap photographer to themasterly portrait - is the couunonplace car-ried to its highest power;and the fact that for so longa series of years he stoodunquestioned at the head of his branch of the literary ]irofession and counnanded a publicso large that the amount of his professional earnings was forhis day unprecedented, affords a phenomenon almost asdiscouraging in itself as the reign of Tupper in anotherfield of literature. Indeed, if it would be unjust to thenovelist to treat the two instances as precisely parallel, it isonly because, vast as may be the interval which divides thethird-rate in prose fiction from the hrst-rate, the differencebetween the poetaster and the poet is one not in degree butm kind. It is .somewhat unfortunate and not a little unfair tothis branch of our social history that we should be compelled. CHAllLKS UK-VUK. (bloM a water colour hii Millie. Ste/iuwfsku, in the possession of C. L. lieade, Esii.) 606 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. The Literary Revival. The NewRomance. to close this i-eview of it during a period of temporary retro-gi-ession, or, at any rate, of temporary pause. But it doesso happen that that stir of new forces in our hterature,which will be denied by none but those who have been,perhaps, pardonably disgusted by daily exaggerations of it,only began to be felt about 1880. During the fifteen orsixteen years which have since elapsed its effects have beenmost marked in almost every dejjartment of letters. For,if it be true, as no doubt it is, that neither in poetry norin YYOse fiction, nor even in historj, in biography, or inthe essay, can we as yet, with any confidence, indi
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