Lady Geraldine's Courtship - Illustrated

* 34 Illustrations by W. J. Hennessy (Engraved by W. J. Linton)


This is a noble ballad in every way. The masculine energy and grasp of passion of it surprise us at first, especially in a writer in whom gentleness is so conspicuous a feature. But where genius is, the qualities of strength aud gentleness go always hand in hand. Were the poem cleared of some obscurities of sentiment, and conventional expression, characteristic of a class of writers, known as the Syncretic School, into which Eli...