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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
to grotesque and humorous exploits — a welcome such as a prince in his breathing-hour might give to a new-found jester or clown ; and when he says, in reply to English criticism, that there is something worth an estimate in the division of an ocean gulf, that makes us like the people of a new planet. Turning back to Stedman's earlier book, the Victorian poets, one finds many a terse passage, as where he describes Landor as a royal Bohemian in art, or compares the same author's death in Florence at ninety, a banished man, to the death of some monarch of the forest, most untamed when powerless. Such passages redeem a book from the danger of being forgotten, but they cannot in the long run save it from the doom which awaits too great diffuseness in words. During all this period of hard work, he found room also for magazine articles, always thoroughly done. Nowhere is there a finer analysis, on the whole, of the sources of difficulty in Homeric translation than will be found in Ste