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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XXIV (search)
polis were wont to give but short shrift to any book which disregarded those conditions. But that which practically excludes Mr. Haggard from the ranks of serious and accredited writers is not that his sentiment is melodramatic, his fancy vulgar, and his situations absurd; the more elementary ground of exclusion is that he makes fritters of English. It is hard for criticism to deal seriously with a novelist who writes: It is us; He . . . read on like some one reads in some ghastly dream; Jacobus . . . whom was exceedingly sick; So that was where they were being taken to; and the like. In the Contemporary Review his style seems to have been revised editorially, and we find nothing worse than such slang phrases as played out, though this is certainly bad enough. If a man in decent society should place his feet upon the table but once, his standing would be as effectually determined as if his offences had been seventy times seven. Now, whatever may be said of current tendencies i