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...gracefully; so that it would suit the eyes and the minds of their generations. But, repeated the lady, times and literary tastes and values have so completely changed! And how is one to know today if an author will endure? With the Brontes and Dickens and Browning and Thackeray and Smollett and Sterne and Fielding it was an easy matter. They rarely broke off sharply with the traditions of their day, said the lady. I did not agree with this but I admitted her problem. And it seemed to me that a solution was not too difficult...
...performance of Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring was attended, last week, by T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York. Hitherto no one of the King's sons has entered a theatre since the critical stage of his illness. Princess Mary has been to a benefit circus, laughed...
...Memorial Room the most noteworthy manuscript is the "Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D." This is entirely in Scott's own handwriting, and is in the uncorrected form. The first edition of "Ivanhoe" in the original boards should also attract bibliophiles. The first edition of "Vanity Fair" with Thackeray's own illustrations rivals the previously mentioned copy in rarity. The copy has the woodcut of Marcus Steyne which was later suppressed. There is, finally, an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Broute's entitled, "Adventures of Captain Hasting," and several signed first editions of "Clarissa," and "Moll Flanders...
...rake" was Lord Charles Mohun, the original of the villain in Thackeray's Henry Esmond. Illustrated from old prints...
...explain Hardy's position in English letters, it is necessary to push the story back to the middle of the 19th century, when Thackeray was writing his voluminously graceful fictions, when Gladstone was hobbling inelegantly through London, when Queen Victoria was swishing around her palace in long dresses. Hardy was then a small boy who took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them...