...and they seem far off and foreign no longer. But there is one (to me) melancholy note in the psean with which the Great Western was welcomed. In literature...disappearing savage, and the retiring wilderness, the free thousrht, and the action as OO free, the spirit of daring innovation, and the irreverent question of...

...thus it happens that even superior genius is so often liable to be unjust and false in its decisions." Apropos of English periodicals, we get them now almost...nations in an equal home, the feeling of expanse, of unsubservienoy, of distance from time-hallowed authority and prejudice — all the elements which were...

...Tortesa, The Usurer was first staged, Willis asserted that the nation was doomed to literary vassalage: "The triumph of Atlantic steam navigation has driven...limits of a new literary empire, and America is a suburb."14 While perhaps unique in its ascription of cause, Willis's view was echoed throughout the...

...Tonesa, The Usurer was first staged, Willis asserted that the nation was doomed to literary vassalage: "The triumph of Atlantic steam navigation has driven...limits of a new literary empire, and America is a suburb."14 While perhaps unique in its ascription of cause, Willis's view was echoed throughout the...