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Books And Things a Span Classsearchtermspan Classsearchtermcollectio
G S George Slythe Street
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After persons and politics and in regard to both his judgment was shrewd within the limits of his prejudices, and his observation always quick for details he dwells most on houses, furniture, and the like, in which he was curious, like Horace Walpole ; he was very severe on the new Buckingham Palace ; but he knew nothing of pictures, and could go to Petworth without noticing the Romneys, though that, as his editor says, was a general deficiency of his time. His style is entirely colloquial. The...re, I think, he has an advan- tage over Croker, with whom Sir Herbert Maxwell compares him. A fine literary sense brought to the service of letter- writing, and 107 MAINLY OF BOOKS thoroughly bent to it, the gift of Horace Walpole, is one thing ; to write letters in the manner of essays, which is largely Croker's way, is another. Neither Croker nor Creevey is to be mentioned as a letter - writer with Walpole, but Byron, who at least approached him, and who could write good enough " literary" prose when he chose, was content to be colloquial in his letters, and Creevey was well inspired to be so also.
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