. Una breve storia di Inghilterra e America's letteratura, da Eva Marzo Tappan. ad essere sempre attendibile nella sua stima ofmen, ma come Macaulay, possedeva la historicalimagination, che dopo tutto è poco più di theability per ricordare che gli uomini del passato erano come humanas uomini della presente. Tra gli scritti scientifici Charles Darwins origine ofSpecies, Sir Charles Lyells principi di geologia, eil opere di Tyndall e Huxley sono state più widelyread. I nomi di saggisti e critici sono molti.Walter Pater con la sua armoniosa frasi, JohnHenry Newman con la sua squisitamente lucidato

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. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. always to be trusted in his estimates ofmen, but, like Macaulay, he possessed the historicalimagination, which is, after all, little more than theability to remember that men of the past were as humanas men of the present. Among scientific writings Charles Darwins Origin ofSpecies, Sir Charles Lyells Principles of Geology, andthe works of Tyndall and Huxley have been most widelyread. The names of essayists and critics are many.Walter Pater with his harmonious sentences, JohnHenry Newman with his exquisitely polished diction, are well known and are well worthy of honor. Espe-cially hopeless is the effort to make a satisfactory choiceamong the novelists. Not every one would dream ofattempting a scientific treatise or a volume of even sec- 19th Cent.] THE CENTURY OF THE NOVEL 249 ond-rate poetry ; but who is there, from Disraeli, theBritish premier, to the young girl whose graduationgown is still fresh, that does not feel the longing to pro-duce a novel? Edward Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton, . CARDINAL NEWMAN won fame by his Last Days of Pompeii ; Elizabeth Cleg-horn Gaskell was the author of Cranford, that little mas-terpiece of delineation of village life ; Charles Readewrote Put Yourself in His Place and other stories, manyof which aimed vigorous blows at some social injustice.Within the last twenty years novels have made their ap-pearance by the score. Who can say whether the excel-lence which we see in many of them is really enduringexcellence or only some quality so especially congenial 250 ENGLANDS LITERATURE [19th Cent. to our own times that it seems excellent to us ? Whetherthese later works are strong and lasting currents in thestream of Englands literature or whether they are onlyeddies and ripples, it is too early to decide. For twelve hundred years or longer this stream hasflowed, now narrowed, now broadened, but ever movingonward. The epic has swept on from the simple thoughtand prim

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