The last number of Fraser's Magazine, uses up the
novel of Mr. Edward Lytton Bulwer in fine style, but with little scruple
as regards integrity, candor or fact. We mean this remark as applicable
only to the charges made again the incidental and colloquial portions of
the works in question. But the critic is, in our opinion, perfectly right
in condemning by wholesale Bulwer's absurd pretence to metaphysical knowledge.
The parade which he always makes of this, arises from a consciousness of
his total ignorance and deficiency. He has warm passions and a flowing
imagination -- but nothing can be more perplexed and indistinct than his
reasoning powers, and nothing possibly worse than is style.
[S:0 - Brigham]