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...Thackeray and Browning Represented...
...aside their prejudice and be convinced, by a rational and quiet style, of her greatness. As Miss Haldane says in the last chapter, there is not one of the great Victorians who has suffered more from neglect since the war; the novels have not the satire of Thackeray's stories of London society, nor the luridness of Dickens tales of the slums; there is nothing but an unwavering view of the human heart, and a pervading sense of the law that we reap what...
There are such things as good taste and common sense. Dickens often misused the one and abused the other. Yet even the versatile author and creator of Pickwick would have asked Perry truncher to take the bones carted into Harvard Yard back to their cemetery. And Thackeray, who, for obvious reasons, never inspires such gaucheries, would have written another chapter of "Vanity Fair...
...Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...
...Favorites and New" well be the subject of Professor Copeland's reading, which will be made up of selections from the works of such writers as Thackeray, Kipling, Robert Benchley '12, Donald Ogden Stewart, and a number of other authors...