BENNETT, ARNOLD. Typescript signed of the article "Literature of the Last Hundred Years." London [October 1928]. 4 1/2 pages, 4to, plus title-page, double-spaced, signed by Bennett in ink at end and with a few ink corrections and revisions by him. This piece, mainly a discussion of the literature of the Victorian era, was published in The Spectator for 3 November 1928, pp. 21-22. A few snippets: "In my view the popular verdict is correct which puts Dickens first, Thackeray second, and the rest of the Victorian novelists on a definitely lower plane...[George Eliot] arouses in the reader a desperate longing to refresh himself with French and Russian fiction. Trollope, at present somewhat overpraised, had detachment, together with an instinctive regard for truth. But he was deficient in emotion. Disraeli may yet enjoy an Indian summer of esteem... Coningsby , a positive dazzlement of wit, epigram, and sagacity, is the very cream of political fiction...then, with Meredith, Hardy and (later) George Moore came the new dawn, and the tonic wind of the dawn..."
BENNETT, ARNOLD. Typescript signed of the article "Literature of the Last Hundred Years." London [October 1928]. 4 1/2 pages, 4to, plus title-page, double-spaced, signed by Bennett in ink at end and with a few ink corrections and revisions by him. This piece, mainly a discussion of the literature of the Victorian era, was published in The Spectator for 3 November 1928, pp. 21-22. A few snippets: "In my view the popular verdict is correct which puts Dickens first, Thackeray second, and the rest of the Victorian novelists on a definitely lower plane...[George Eliot] arouses in the reader a desperate longing to refresh himself with French and Russian fiction. Trollope, at present somewhat overpraised, had detachment, together with an instinctive regard for truth. But he was deficient in emotion. Disraeli may yet enjoy an Indian summer of esteem... Coningsby , a positive dazzlement of wit, epigram, and sagacity, is the very cream of political fiction...then, with Meredith, Hardy and (later) George Moore came the new dawn, and the tonic wind of the dawn..."
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