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Updated: May 20, 2025
He looked at the chapter headings An Old Man with a Lantern the Road at Night.... Sun on the Western Moor Stevenson Tushery all of it! How they'd tear it to bits, those papers! He laughed to himself to think that there had once been a day when he had thought that the thing would make his fortune!
It will translate characters, language and things as nearly as possible into terms comprehensible in our own times: but not so literally, or so extravagantly as to degenerate into the opera-bouffe of, for example, Mr. Shaw's Cæsar and Cleopatra. There will also be no tushery. The method of description which Mr. Belloc employs in these sketches is cool and transparent.
It is only by great care in writing that he can secure the easy, even and real tone in which these glimpses of other centuries and other societies can be presented. Should he err on one side, he is in the bogs of tushery: on the other, he commits that fault of self-conscious, over-daring modernization, of which Mr. Shaw has been so guilty.
It is the fashion, I believe, now with the Clever Solemn Ones to despise Stevenson as a writer of romantic Tushery, All the same, if it's realism they want I'm still waiting to see something more realistic than Pew or Long John Silver. Realism may depend as truly on a blind man's tap with his stick upon the ground as on any number of adulteries.
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