In other words, nothing is proved beyond the bullish proposition that evil is no evil at all. I hardly know how to account for the repeated failures of John Neal as regards the construction of his works. Of all literary foibles the most fatal, perhaps, is that of defective climax. Nevertheless, I should be inclined to rank John Neal first, or at all events second, among our men of indisputable genius . Within yon leafy forest hid, Whose pent and lonely waters swell Its confines chill and drear amid.
Few things have greater tendency than inversion, to render verse feeble and ineffective.
In short as regards verbal construction, the more prosaic a poetical, style is, the better. It is the prosaicism of these two writers to which is owing their especial quotability. An entertaining history, Entitled 'Saul, A Mystery,' Has recently been published by the Reverend Arthur Coxe. The poem is dramatic, And the wit of it is attic, And its teachings are emphatic of the doctrines orthodox. And Green, of the Empori Um, tells a kindred story, And swears like any tory that it is'nt worth a groat.