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DEAR MAGENTA, - I regret having been compelled to leave so long unnoticed a recent contribution to the Advocate commenting on, or rather criticising, my article on Bulwer. This would-be critic opens with, and again repeats, an opinion that my ideas are wholly erroneous concerning two, at least, of Bulwer's novels. Not having read "Eugene Aram" for some years, I took occasion, recently, to look it through again, and I see no reason "why it should not have been censured at the time of its publication because the characters were taken from Newgate." Although the remark might apply equally...
Most of the innumerable political and social essays which Bulwer produced were on topics of the day, and their interest waned with the questions of which they treated. His "Art in Fiction" and "Present State of Poetry" contain much that is true and wholesome...
...Bulwer was, undoubtedly, a good classical scholar, though he has bequeathed us but little in that department. Leaving the beaten track followed by most Englishmen of position and education, and foregoing the pleasure of rendering into English the works of Homer, he has been content with a translation of Horace's Odes and Epodes. The translation is, as a rule, very literal, and the renderings excellent; the beauty of the work has been marred by an attempt to preserve in the English all the original metres of the Latin...
...understand that at the time of his death Bulwer was engaged on a work that was expected to far surpass his previous efforts. In his public life he has been successful, and has been prominently connected with numerous Parliamentary measures for educational and social reform...
...writer cannot but feel how little he has said that was not already known to the majority of readers. His surprise, however, at being unable to find more than one or two of Bulwer's productions at several of the leading bookstores, and that the College Library was so scantily supplied with them, prompted him to write this...