... half-dozen books, etc. But the most repellent things one sees in English books, in the way of language, are the coarsenesses for which no American is responsible, as when in the graceful writings of Juliana Ewing the reader comes upon the words stinking or nigger. This last offensive word is also invariably used by Froude in Oceana. Granting that taste and decorum are less important than logic and precisi...