Owen Tudor, by the author of 'Whitefriars'.

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Seite 440 - Mrs. Crowe has a clearness and plain force of style, and a power in giving reality to a scene, by accumulating a number of minute details, that reminds us forcibly of Defoe.
Seite 440 - Prescott's works in point of style rank with the ablest English historians, and paragraphs may be found in which the grace and elegance of Addison are combined with Robertson's cadence and Gibbon's brilliancy.
Seite 439 - Tour round my Garden,' by Alphonse Karr, and think it is caleulated to do a world of good. The stay-at-home mnn pursues the traveller with incessant banter ; he shows that in his little world of a garden he has all the pains and pleasures, all the sights and sounds, of travel.

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