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The work was accordingly proceeded with, and Elwin wrote a criticism of the work for The Quarterly Review from the proof-sheets: John Murray determined not to publish the book unless the offending passage were removed. He wrote to Borrow the following letter: 8th April 1857. My Dear Borrow, When I have done anything towards you deserving of apology I will not hesitate to offer one.
Another friend, Whitwell Elwin, in the "Quarterly Review," reviewing "Lavengro" and its continuation, "The Romany Rye," not only praised the truth and vividness of the descriptions, but said that "various portions of the history are known to be a faithful narrative of Mr.
Dickens is seen in his pages precisely as he is showed in his ordinary intercourse." Both Elwin and his friend had that inflexibility of principle in criticism and literary utterance which they adhered to as though it were a matter of high morals. This feeling contrasts with the easy adaptability of our day, when the critic so often has to shape his views according to interested aims.
Colonel says he can do it in mud and can take the hills on high; says he never goes into low for anything. Bill Elwin, one of our gasless experts, reminds him of the time he couldn't get up Foster's Hill on second and was passed by three automobiles and fourteen road roaches.
Certainly if the penance paid by the reader is any test, the novelist was successful in her effort to atone for the looseness of her early writings, when she left the province of fiction for that of the periodical essay. Elwin and Courthope's Pope, IV, 135, note 3. Elwin and Courthope's Pope, IV, 141. Elwin and Courthope 's Pope, IV, 232.
"Borrow was just then very sore with his slashing critics, and on someone mentioning that Elwin was a 'Quartering reviewer, he said, 'Sir, I wish you a better employment. Then hastily changing the subject, he called out, 'What party are you in the Church Tractarian, Moderate, or Evangelical? I am happy to say, I am the old HIGH. 'I am happy to say I am NOT, was Elwin's emphatic reply.
In the evening the Forward was in sight of Elwin Bay, known by its high perpendicular rocks; on the Tuesday morning Batty Bay was sighted, where the Prince Albert anchored for its long wintering on the 10th of September, 1851. The doctor swept the whole coast with his telescope. It was from this point that the expeditions radiated that established the geographical configuration of North Somerset.
Elwin was in truth the "complement" of Forster's life and character. It was difficult to understand the one without seeing him in the company of the other. It was astonishing how softened and amiable, and even schoolboy-like, the tumultuous John became when he spoke of or was in company with his old friend; he really delighted in him.
Borrow boasted of his proficiency in the Norfolk dialect, which he endeavoured to speak as broadly as possible. 'I told him, said Elwin, 'that he had not cultivated it with his usual success. As the conversation proceeded it became less disputatious, and the two ended by becoming so cordial that they promised to visit each other.
"You are tired out," he said gently. "You have been nursing him?" She nodded and tried to smile. "Who is attending?" "Sir Elwin Groves, but " "Shall I wire for my father?" "We wired for him yesterday!" "What! to Paris?" "Yes, at my uncle's wish." Cairn started. "Then he thinks he is seriously ill, himself?" "I cannot say," answered the girl wearily. "His behaviour is queer.
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