Fifty years ago . WITH THE WITS 187 briand, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Beranger, Alfred deMusset, Scribe, and Dumas were all writing, a groupmuch stronger than our English team. It is difficult to understand, at first, that betweenthe time of Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats, andtliat of Dickens, Thackeray, Marryat, Lever, Tennyson,

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