M.Milsand will _not_, I prophesy; 'seeing as from a tower the end of all.' The 'Athenaeum' is right in supposing that it will be much liked _and_ much disliked by people in general, although the press is so far astonishing in its goodwill, and although the extravagance of private letters might well surprise the warmest of my friends.

But, patience! In a little while we shall have the other side of the question, and the whips will fall fast after the nosegays.

Still, I am surprised, I own, at the amount of success; and that golden-hearted Robert is in ecstasies about it--far more than if it all related to a book of his own.

The form of the story, and also something in the philosophy, seem to have caught the crowd.

As to the poetry by itself, anything good in _that_ repels rather.