The New Fiction And Other Essays On Literary Subjects
The New Fiction And Other Essays On Literary Subjects
H D Henry Duff Traill
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Ward's novel may fairly enough be treated as though the}'' were sketches from contemporary life, and both in externals and internals, as regards speech, idea, and action, be judged accordingly. Externally speaking, then, it may be admitted that not a few of these portraits are successful. Lord Fontenoy, who is a sort of mixture of Lord Randolph Churchill and Lord George Bentinck, is distinctly good ; and Lord Maxwell, though a little shadowy, is not amiss. Mr. Bennett, the labour member, is als...o well observed, and touched in, slight sketch as he is, with a truthful and not unkindly hand. Many, too, of the minor political personages — the private secre- tary ; the 'society' youth wlio collaborates with Fontenoy in the literary defence of the ' fourth party ' views, and the attack on the Maxwell pohcyj the •il THE POLITICAL NOVEL imwilling yoimg couutiy squire, Sir Frank Levan, spirited up to politics by his restless wife, are vital if not very vivacious figures ; and the scenes of private life in which they figure are certainly far superior to those mechanical dialogues among lifeless puppets which cover so many pages of Phineas Finn.
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