e smaller mass of his early hackwork, no doubt _deserves_ judicious
excerption.

4. 'The Romany Rye' _did not appear_ for six years, _that is to say, in_
1857.

5. The elaborate apparatus which most prose tellers of fantastic tales
_use_, and generally _fail in using_.

6. The great writers, whether they try to be like other people or try
not to be like them (_and sometimes in the first case most of all_),
succeed _only_ in being themselves.

7. If he had a slight _overdose_ of Celtic blood and Celtic-peculiarity,
it was _more than made up_ by the readiness of literary expression which
it gave him. He, if any one, bore an English heart, though, _as there
often has been_, there was something perhaps more than English as well as
less than it in his fashion of expression.

8. His flashes of ethical reflection, which, though like _all_ ethical
reflections _often_ one-sided.

9. He certainly was an _unfriend_ to Whiggery.

10. _That it contains_ a great deal of quaint and piquant writing _is
only to say_ that its writer wrote it.

11. 'Wild Wales,' too, because of _its_ easy and direct _opportunity_ of
comparing its description with the originals.

12. The capital _and_ full-length portraits.

13. Whose attraction is _one_ neither mainly nor in any very great
degree one of pure form.

14. _Constantly right in general_.

These are merely a few examples of the style of Mr. Saintsbury, a writer
who seems quite ignorant of the commonest laws both of grammar and of
literary expression, who has apparently no idea of the difference between
the pronouns 'this' and 'that,' and has as little hesitation in ending
the clause of a sentence with a preposition, as he has in inserting a
parenthesis between a preposition and its object, a mistake of which the
most ordinary schoolboy would be ashamed. And why can not our magazine-
writers use plain, simple English? _Unfriend_, quoted above, is a quite
unnecessary archaism, and so is such a phrase as _With this Borrow could
not away_, in the sense of 'this Borrow could not endure.' 'Borrow's
_abstraction_ from general society' may, I suppose, pass muster. Pope
talks somewhere of a hermit's 'abstraction,' but what is the meaning of
saying that the author of Lavengro _quartered_ Castile and Leon 'in the
most interesting manner, riding everywhere with his servant'? And what
defence can be made for such an expression as 'Scott, and other _black
beasts_ of Borrow's'?