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Critics and readers generally may profit by Early Reviews of

Great Writers, edited by E. Stevenson (Walter Scott), a volume in "The Camelot Series." A reviewer, happily unknown, thinks that " Christabel " was "rude, unfashioned stuff," and generally finds "execrable taste" in the volume. Brougham is severe on "Hours of Idleness," and not, one may venture to think, without some cause ; and another reviewer, who had good reasons for con- cealing his name, pens his "savage and tartarly " criticism on " Endymion." The last review in the volume is John Stuart Mill's remarkable essay on Tennyson's "Poems, chiefly Lyrical." Few men have shown more insight in the case of a writer whose merits had yet to be discovered.