Hardy Review 15

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must give us an interior next
on this canvas! How refreshing
to read a book that does not
presuppose idiocy in the reader
but makes a little demand
upon a moderate equipment
of mind and imagination! How
restful to be freed from wearying
descriptions of women's faces and
toilettes, infinite crescendos and
diminuendos of approach and
withdrawal of common place
people! As a contrast to that such
how delicately and with one light stroke does our author
give us his own, and our the fair