Any other lack is, to the present writer, imperceptible.

The romance interest of quest, adventure, achievement, is present to the fullest degree: and what is sometimes called the pure novel interest of character and conversation is present in a degree not lower.

It must be accepted as a great blessing, even by those who regard Puritanism as an almost unmitigated curse, that its principles forbade Bunyan to think of choosing the profane and abominable stage-play as the form of his creation.

We had had our fill of good plays, and were beginning to drink of that which was worse: while we had no good novels and wanted them.

Of course the large amount of actual "Tig and Tirry" dialogue (as Dr.Johnson would say) is probably one of the things which have made precisians shy of accepting the _Progress_ for what it really is.