... give a final tableau of the PlCiade, and point the way to those studies of detail which will best advance our understanding of the in- dividuals in the movement. JEAN F. DAVID University of Washington Walter Bagehot. By WILLIAMIRVINE. New York...

... University of Washington Walter Bagehot. By WILLIAMIRVINE. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. Pp. 303. Figures of Transition: a Study of British Literature at the End of the Nineteenth Cetttury. By GRANVILLEHICKS. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1940. Pp. xv+ 326...

... (August, 1820), 206. 498 Francis Jefre y This quality in Keats, though not mysticism, appeared such to Jeffrey because he did not understand it.55Walter Bagehot ascribed Jeffrey’s hostility to the influence of the Whigs, who were “most averse to mysticism...

... dispassionately informed opinion. Under John Douglas Cook, the founding editor, there were many distinguished regular contributors : G. S. Venables, Fitzjames and Leslie Stephen, John Morley, Max Miiller, Mark Pattison, George Henry Lewes, Walter Bagehot, et ul. Most of these men regarded themselves...

... many basic assumptions were held in common by the High Church, Low Church, and Broad Church parties. On the other hand, there are noteworthy segregations of the writers in terms of their instinctive attitudes : the possessors of “open minds” were Mill, Arnold, Clough, Maurice, Bagehot...

... by giving the line numbers for the innumerable quotations from Chau- cer’s poetry. There is also much inconsistency in the citation of authorities; why, for example, on page 301 should there be a foot- note for Hunt, none for Bagehot on 294, and no mention at all of sources for the quotations...

.... John-Stevas, Norman (editor). Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The Liter- ary Essays. With an introduction by Sir William Haley. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965. Vol. I, 476 pp.; Vol. 11, 400 pp. $17.50, two volumes. 240 BOOKS...

... well even in bad economic times, when the act had to be suspended and the bank’s reserves allowed to shrink in proportion to its issues. Poovey observes a like naturalizing or factualizing in the financial journalism of Walter Bagehot. During the panic following the failure of the bill-broking...

..., when the act had to be suspended and the bank’s reserves allowed to shrink in proportion to its issues. Poovey observes a like naturalizing or factualizing in the financial journalism of Walter Bagehot. During the panic following the failure of the bill-broking house Overend and Gurney, Bagehot...

... well even in bad economic times, when the act had to be suspended and the bank’s reserves allowed to shrink in proportion to its issues. Poovey observes a like naturalizing or factualizing in the financial journalism of Walter Bagehot. During the panic following the failure of the bill-broking...

... or factualizing in the financial journalism of Walter Bagehot. During the panic following the failure of the bill-broking house Overend and Gurney, Bagehot writes to restore confidence, adopting a stance of general survey, not descending to particulars (not even naming the failed company), and using other...

... is nothing else, and that his humor is ever “pure and simple.” Laurence Sterne, so says Walter Bagehot, “excels all other writers in mere simple description of com- mon sensitive human action”;S but very little, indeed, would such a gift alone benefit a writer who has taken upon himself...

..., these two sequences provide the framework from which spring Tristram’s endless digressions (or in Walter Bagehot’s image, the plot “to hang plums on Of course Tris- tram cannot literally keep both his main plot and his digressions moving simultaneously before his reader’s eyes any more...

... fortifications against the vices of the nobil- ity” (243–46). Walter Bagehot, who praised The Semi-Detached House for its exposure of snobbery, suggested that “it teaches Mr Thackeray’s peculiar doctrine in a healthier and better way than he does.”41 Thac- keray had not only drawn up a list of snobbery’s...

... in opposition to others; thus D. A. Miller, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Neil Hertz, and Christopher Herbert, voices he admires and differs from, appear in the text on the same terms as John Stuart Mill, John Henry Newman, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Carlyle, F. D. Maurice, and other Victorian sages. When it comes...

... in opposition to others; thus D. A. Miller, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Neil Hertz, and Christopher Herbert, voices he admires and differs from, appear in the text on the same terms as John Stuart Mill, John Henry Newman, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Carlyle, F. D. Maurice, and other Victorian sages. When it comes...

... admires and differs from, appear in the text on the same terms as John Stuart Mill, John Henry Newman, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Carlyle, F. D. Maurice, and other Victorian sages. When it comes to reading Victorian novels and poems, Miller’s attentiveness to the narrative expression of characters...

... in opposition to others; thus D. A. Miller, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Neil Hertz, and Christopher Herbert, voices he admires and differs from, appear in the text on the same terms as John Stuart Mill, John Henry Newman, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Carlyle, F. D. Maurice, and other Victorian sages. When it comes...

... in opposition to others; thus D. A. Miller, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Neil Hertz, and Christopher Herbert, voices he admires and differs from, appear in the text on the same terms as John Stuart Mill, John Henry Newman, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Carlyle, F. D. Maurice, and other Victorian sages. When it comes...

...” ( 1888); T. H. Huxley, “The Influence upon Morality of a Decline in Re- ligious Belief” (1877); W. K. Clifford, “The Ethics of Belief” (1877); A. J. Balfour, A Defense of Philosophic Doubt, Being an Essay on the Foundations of Belief (1879); and scores of others. Walter Bagehot divided...