...o speak unfavorably of the work of other sculptors, and this, of course, was perhaps more like Auerbach than any other writer of the nineteenth century, but still more like Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield and the House of the seven Gables are the two perfect romances in the English tongue; and the Deserted Village, though written in poetry, has very much the quality of Hawthorne's shorter sketches....