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 against 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 his style.
[S:0 - Brigham]