Plots of Love and Morality Drawn in Victorian Tales
The review surveys characters and moral tensions across multiple novels. It praises Mrs. Eiloart’s work for plot craft and psychological insight, critiques its harsh clergyman lead, and notes Takeville and Lakeville offer varied social portraits. It highlights religious themes, American society echoes, and authorial leanings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hila
Madame Hellwig
Thornton
Crowsehead
Mr. Trollope
Takeville
Lakeville
West
Chicago
Far West
America
Europe
France
Italy
Essays on Historical Truth by Andrew Bisset review
The London book by Andrew Bisset is lively though clumsy at times and heavily sourced. It collects Cromwell and James I era material, invites critique, and shows strong opinions especially against the James I court and Bacon, with reliance on foreign correspondence and state papers.
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Andrew Bisset
London
Longmans, Green, and Co
James I
Bisset
Hume
Cromwell
Bacon
Bisset on James I and Hume in new essays and Palgrave poetry
The review discusses Mr Bisset’s essays on Cromwell and James I highlighting his view of James I as a tyrant and the dangers of royal personal government, alongside his critique of Hume as historically unreliable. It surveys Payne Suitih’s Prophecy a Preparation for Christ with praise for its defense of supernatural faith, and then Palgrave’s Lyrical Poems praising formal craft and linguistic balance as seen in Melusine and Alcestis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bisset
Cromwell
James I
David Hume
Professor Huxley
Descartes
Hume
Huxley
Macmillan
Bampton
Germany
England
Francis Turner Palgrave
Exeter College
Oxford
London
Macmillan and Co
Palgrave
Wordsworth
Yestreen
Famoe
Heaven