Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Illustrations are a valuable embellishment in many kinds of books, and in scientific works are an absolute necessity. But to illustrate a novel is in bad taste. In fiction, where the appeal is mainly to the imagination of the reader, he ought to be allowed to figure the characters and incidents in his own mind without having his ideas shocked by the sketches of some misnamed "artist," who attempts to depict scenes of which he seems not to have the faintest conception. To illustrate a book to help the understanding is a useful field for the pencil, but to illustrate...
Almost any great creation of fiction can be made out a type of something or other. Kenelm Chillingly would appear to be the type of culture; though, in adding this to an already great array, we are shamefully conscious of taking our very little share in that too hot pursuit of types which is said to be a failing of the present age. Kenelm Chillingly is distinguished from other men by his love of independence, not an independence of order and proper restraint, but an independence of cant and conventionality; by his love for learning and contempt for pedantry...
...diligently study German for two years, and at the end of that time be unfitted - so far as German was concerned - to take either of the courses in history. The reason is, that what has been read in the regular courses has been mostly or wholly poetry and easy fiction, the styles and even the vocabularies of which are radically different from those employed by the German historical writers...
...magazine of such a popular character. No doubt, however, it will please some. For our own part, we are tempted to wonder how much the various manufacturers pay to have cuts of their buildings so prominently exhibited, and their various productions so well advertised. Those who are interested in fiction will find much to please them, and those, too, who seek for witty sayings will not be unsatisfied if they turn to "Our Monthly Gossip...
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...