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results should not follow where one man is raised to the peerage because he is a successful brewer, and another because he is Alfred Tennyson?
No dozen poets or statesmen, it is said, would have been so mourned in England as was Archer the jockey; nor did Holmes or Lowell have a London success so overpowering as that of ‘Buffalo Bill.’
In a community which thus selects its heroes, why should not the highest of all wreaths of triumph be given to Mr. Haggard's Umslopagaas, ‘that dreadful-looking, splendid savage’?
Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1892.
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