I have read him only in extracts, such as the reviews give, and such as a friend helped me to by good-natured MS.
It is extraordinary to me that with his amount of development, as far as I understand it, he has met with so much rapid recognition.

Tell me if you have read 'Queechy,' the American book--novel--by Elizabeth Wetherell?
I think it very clever and characteristic.

Mrs.Beecher Stowe scarcely exceeds it, after all the trumpets.

We are about to have a visit from Mr.Lytton, Sir Edward's only son--only child now.

Did I tell you that he was a poet--yes, and of an unquestionable faculty?
I expect much from him one day, when he shakes himself clear of the poetical influences of the age, which he will have strength to do presently.