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...e Heart Books Sierra Vista, AZ http://www.trebleheartbooks.com This is a non-fiction work. All rights reserved. No part of this book or any other cop... ... am, back at a truth I learned long ago and have used in more than one of my novels: Nothing enters my life that isn’t caused or allowed by God, nothi... ...nderstanding of God’s word. Even as I study the Bible to find answers for my fictional characters, I find wisdom for my own life. Instead of fame, God... ... the basics of writing. I ended up 22 going into journalism, but still non-fiction writing is different from fiction writing (or should be). I had, ... ...n writing (or should be). I had, and still have, much to learn about writing novels, but one thing I know, I need to continually work at my craft, lea... ...s. The other arts were also linked to gods and goddesses as well. The art of Science flourished because people believed the gods had created a world t... ...ese kingdoms lost their true King. In modern days the various disciplines of science and the many genres of art have fallen out of God’s hands. But th... ...he promise above is a living promise. I write fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are genres which belong to the kin... ...his way before I started writing. I was beginning to resemble the guy in the comic strip who works at home on his computer in his bathrobe, losing all...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic U...

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... Pg 113 The Triality of the Universe Pg 114 The Totality of Twelve Pg 119 Science Pg 121 Instinct and Evolution Pg 124 How and Why Life Emerg... ...6 Sports Pg 401 Happiness Pg 402 Law Pg 413 Logic and Legality Pg 420 Science and Balance Pg 461 The Pyramidal Absolute Pg 469 Abstr... ...Human Suffering and Hardship Pg 737 Rage and Unhappiness Pg 737 Nature and Science Pg 740 The Vicious Cycles of Civilized Ease and Hardship ... ...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ... each other and are not testable is not Science. Science fantasy and science fiction mixed together with pure conjecture is not Science. The or... ...ive thought-patterns. This is why and how the dynamic of a writer writing a fictional story works: (Brain inter... ...all of the thousands of different myths and separate what is fact and what is fiction. What is truth and what is lie. What is actually good and wha... ...less of who the author was. Regardless if they were the equivalent of a Greek comic book, or a recipe THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civiliz... ...t integrate it with facial expressions-body gestures... Why not make language comical instead of serious? To try to squeeze all self-expression int...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...uthor Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private ... ...d living...it is so beautifully done, one finds oneself feeling it is not fiction but actually experienced fact.” JAMES PURDY, novelist: “An importa... ...s has published a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, ... ... Yesterday, at the play, I sat closer than usual and was delighted by the comic faces, so new and frightful that children screamed and squealed. Goo... ...umor, but for his wisdom. His reddish whiskers and black brows gave him a comic look. But he sensed his pro- fundity, as he guided me about Corinth a... ...with a cross gouged in each step. Ah, those flooded streets! Some men of science and art have copies of my first treatise. Some. They hesitate. Res... ...e may be the most important of all the art disciplines. In this branch of science, the beam of light is best explained by mathematics and phys- ics. ... ... best to enlighten me on scientific points since I have never studied the sciences, a brief elementary course, I might call it. I found the two rema...

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...nonconformism, the paradoxes in other words of anything ( in literature, art, science), while futurism, cubism, abstractism and all other avant-garde... ...ountries (ancient India, ancient China and Japan) and analyses the paradox in science (especially in mathematics) and in literature. Returning to li... ...on to many fields, the author himself extending it subsequently towards other sciences: logic, semantics, enigmistic 14 etc. An interesting idea ... ...topsy-turvy” answers to normal questions. The apparent inadequation and their comicality arise from the different meanings of the “pilot” word from ... ...e equalized only by ...the poet Florentin Smarandache in a few of his little “novels” in verses: Roman d’amour, Old age without youth age etc. At th... ... authors. Nietzsche’s denying of the subject’s reality, that would be only a fiction, in fact, its deconstruction, is tantamount to a creation of t... ...ation of the imagination, leading, after Ihab Hassan, to those life enhancing fictions, real mental pictures of the postmodern art; otherwise, “ they... ...ted by the smarandachian paradoxism, characterized through an often excessive comic. It is obtained not only through paradoxes, but also through iro...

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...here did you discover that priceless bit of knowledge?” he growled. “Movies, comic books and the textbooks at school all agree staking is the only su... ...verbal variety. “Is anything you know based on something other than popular fiction?” The vamp twisted in the chair to give me another dirty look.... ...” The vamp twisted in the chair to give me another dirty look. “And he’s a comic book artist, not a hunter.” “Sorry, but he sure looked like a cop... ...really need to stop believing everything you see on television and read in a comic book.” Slinging the eggs from my chin, I sat back in the booth. ... ...she had an answer. Well, one that wasn’t totally stupid or based on romance novels. She pursed her lips. “I guess you just do. You know as well a... ...ople in the stands will have something to say about that?” It wasn’t rocket science. Heck, I figured it out right off. “Stupid woman! Do you thin...

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... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...alike disappeared, but not so the spectral ship; and it is a curious fact that science has supported the old sailor in his superstition by often prese... ...1525, with every promise of great success; but the imperfect state of nautical science in that day led to several disasters which brought the expediti... ...at difficult enterprise. AN ISLAND WHENCE SOLOMON DERIVED HIS RICHES. Maritime science and discovery were now advancing surely, and individual sagacit... ...such as the voyage of Hanno which, though generally regarded at that time as a fiction, was yet accepted as probable, if not true, by a few voyagers, ... ...r some time the incarceration continued, since da Gama, anxious to keep up the fiction of being a merchant, had previously directed that only in the l... ...kind of savage hallo, or shriek, not unlike what is sometimes practised in the comic dances on our European theatres. They formed the triple semi-circ... ...wo of the women would advance together, followed by two men who performed many comical antics, and who, indeed, seemed to monopolize the attention of ...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Comm...

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... The Farmers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179... ...thics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sciences in general and synthetic biology in particular. I was also inspi... ...lar. I was also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am descr... ...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...would have been contacted by the very talented person who took images from a comic book about fair use that I co-wrote and mashed them up with words f... ...ovement has been pronounced enough to generate its own reaction. The popular comics site “xkcd” has strips critical of the Digital Millennium Copyrigh... ...Musical borrowing is the subject of the next “graphic novel”—which is to say comic book—produced by me, Keith Aoki, and Jennifer Jenkins: Theft!: A Hi...

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...g the freedom of speech, or of the press..." AUTHOR'S NOTE This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product... ...is getting a great parking spot, right in front of the School of Biological Sciences. Now I have all the time in the world to plan out what to say to... ...dest. — I decide to skip the magazines altogether and go over to the graphic novels section. I love reading the latest collections of DC Vertigo and ... ...sian kid about a few feet below from me sitting on the floor, with piles of comic books next to him. There are also two plastic cups with straws pro... ... to legal drugs. I finish looking through all of the shelves for new graphic novels and I see the kid, from the corner of my eye, getting up and taki... ..., from the corner of my eye, getting up and taking off, leaving the pile of comic books and two empty Starbucks cups what a lazy little sh*t! That's... ...rised of a total of four sections, in the respective testing order: physical sciences, verbal reasoning, writing sample, and biological sciences. The... ...es, verbal reasoning, writing sample, and biological sciences. The physical sciences section concentrates on physics and physics-related chemistry. ... ...book that's not true? My Answer: This book is a didactic novel, aka literary fiction. But I know what you mean. I wrote this book based on my cogniza...

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...ser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vicious and criminal....

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...ey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influ- ence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and cre... ... salad as grew there. And now the Captain slid off stealthily; and smiling comically, and hitching up his great jack-boots, and moving forward with a ... ...ho held him until the owner and Mrs. Catherine came up. Mr. Bullock looked comically grave when he saw the pair; but the Corporal graciously saluted M... ...st these popular plans we here solemnly appeal. We say, let your rogues in novels act like rogues, and your honest men like honest men; don’t let us h... ... to the proposition as she could be; and the Corporal, with a good deal of comical gravity, vowed that, as he could not be satisfied in his dearest wi... ...th such low people as Nan Fantail, indeed! Why, upon my con- 41 Thackeray science now, Corporal, it was but an hour ago that Mr. Trip- pet swore he n... ... Wells, of Edmund Bury (as by the papers may be seen), master of the noble science of self-defence, did engage with Edward Sutton, of Gravesend, maste... ...o is suffering in the most virtuous blank verse. This is the proper end of fiction, and one of the greatest triumphs that a novelist can achieve: for ... ...d customs of the Sheppards and Turpins who were then the popular heroes of fiction. But nowa- days there is no such purpose to serve, and therefore th...

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... by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John Oxen... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John Oxen... ...pportunity university. 3 Goethe Gottingen Edition Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translated By John O... ... department of Literature, of Art ancient and modern, in many provinces of Science, we shall often meet him; and hope to have other occasions of estim... ...ferent shape. Besides, I had also to call to mind how I had labored in the sciences and other arts, and what, in such apparently foreign departments, ... ...earn- ing, such as dictionaries of various languages, and encyclopædias of science and art, which, with much else adapted to profit and amusement, mig... ...s also once present at the burning of a book. The publication was a French comic romance, which indeed spared the State, but not religion and manners.... ...ow- ever, they gave him no peace, he began a Capuchinade on the spot, more comical than ever, perhaps, for the very reason that he took it into his he... ...lue; and he would have liked to let it grow, 220 Autobiography that, as a comic mask, he might always keep the company laughing. For the rest, he was...

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...th such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any, even the mos...

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...ary bodies which exert their influences on the destiny of mortals. It is a science which I do not practise, like others who call them- selves astrolog... ...- dence, which, like most people of the period, he had freely given to the science, was riveted and confirmed. The utmost care, therefore, was taken t... ...aries. One of the most remarkable believers in that forgotten and despised science, was a late eminent professor of the art of legerdemain. One would ... ...ome twenty years since, I have heard you too often describe the scene with comic unction, to hope you will be deterred from making the purchase. I tru... ...try, half prose, from the lips of the tale-teller! No wonder that European fiction sounds cold and meagre, after the wonderful effects which I have se... ...rary attentions to such an unworthy object as your Julia, and, with a very comical expression of consciousness, drew near to Lucy’s work-table. He mad... ... wonder how they should. I remember, in our stolen voyages to the world of fiction, you always ad- mired the grand and the romantic—tales of knights, ... ... had extracted with great care; and, were I in spirits, I could give you a comic account of his astonishment at the apathy with which we heard of the ... ...tory, has only to add, that though ignorant of the coincidence between the fictions of the tale and some real circumstances, he is contented to be- li...

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...ons reflecting upon the es- tablished methods of sociological and economic science…. The last four words will not attract the butterfly reader, I know... ...umed. The entertainment before you is neither the set drama of the work of fiction you are accustomed to read, nor the set lecturing of the essay you ... ...r— blank Comte-ism, in fact, of the blankest description. But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have ... ...lled umbrellas), rare excursions into evening dress, the decorously vulgar fiction read in their homes, its ambling sentimentalities of thought, the a... ...not, seems to me entirely a matter for his doctor and his own private con- science. I doubt if we explorers shall meet any drunken men, and I doubt no... ...mpress these remarkable con- sequences merely as an arrangement of quaint, comical or 123 H G Wells repulsive proceedings. But there emerges to the m... ...is property. There can be no doubt that the latter of these two convenient fictions is the more primitive way of regarding this relationship. It is qu... ...by no means confined to animals. After a time I am told to specialise in a comical little Roman-nosed pony; but several of the better paid carvers wor... ... man, the rough chap of our own race. Caricatures, luridly tragic or gaily comic, in which the misconceptions of the author blend with the pre- concep...

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... decent and decorous, but it treats “Don Quixote” in the same fashion as a comic book that cannot be made too comic. To attempt to improve the humour ... ...range indeed if he had not been proud of the most humorous creation in all fiction. He was proud, too, of the popularity and success of the book, and ... ...ond time, would very likely have tried to im- prove him by making him more comical, clever, amiable, or virtu- ous. But Cervantes was too true an arti... ...ft of lying. His lies are not of the highly imaginative sort that liars in fiction commonly indulge in; like Falstaff’s, they resemble the father that... ...character, that makes him the most humorous creation in the whole range of fiction. That unsmiling gravity of which Cervantes was the first great mas-... ...very learned and deeply read. “Above all, they said, he was learned in the science of the stars and of what went on yonder in the heavens and the sun ... ...e a full oil crop, and the three following not a drop will be got.’” “That science is called astrology,” said Don Quixote. “I do not know what it is c... ...these books enables the author to show his powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or comic, and all the moods the sweet and winning arts of poesy and oratory ar... ...he cage in which Don Quixote was placed, and said, “Señor, to ease my con- science I want to tell you the state of the case as to your enchant- ment, ...

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... efusa est sicut aqua—non crescat. He goeth to dancing-houses, and readeth novels—sat est.’ I endeavoured to parry these texts by observing, that the ... ... that the dancing-houses amounted only to one night at La Pique’s ball—the novels (so far as matter of notoriety, Darsie) to an odd volume of Tom Jone... ...the sun peeps. Ars longa, vita brevis—were it not a sin to call the divine science of the law by the inferior name of art.’ So my lamp did burn, dear ... ...is fellows that which is their due, according to the light of his own con- science, and through no other compulsion. Meanwhile, I have known many righ... ...RD TO DARSIE LATIMER I write on the instant, as you direct; and in a tragi-comic humour, for I have a tear in my eye and a smile on my cheek. Dearest ... ...f a profes- sional nature. I will tell you the matter at length, for it is comical enough; and why should not you list to my juridical adven- tures, a... ... or two, said Darsie, ‘but I found I had neither taste nor talents for the science.’ ‘And left it with scorn, doubtless,’ said Mr. Redgauntlet. ‘Well,... ...dered as an invasion of their fishing right is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of N... ...eorge to the British kingdoms. The story is probably one of the nu- merous fictions which were circulated to keep up the spirits of a sinking faction,...

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...Y C onsidering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been bran- dished and borne about, with more or less effect... ...of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science,—the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which Man’... ...wberries, and be swallowed up at last in remote peat-bogs. Of that unwise science, which, as our Humorist expresses it, “By geometric scale Doth take... ...wer; and either in the authentic lineaments of Fact, or the forged ones of Fiction, a com- plete picture and Genetical History of the Man and his spir... ...ld, ‘what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!’—In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is true, the final Cessation of War is ... ...y a mystification! What if many a so-called Fact were little better than a Fiction; if here we had no direct Cam- 144 Sartor Resartus era-obscura Pic... ...ret. Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect; these they call Fashionable Novels: however, the Canon is not completed, and some are canonical and oth... ... appears something like a Dissertation on this very subject of Fashionable Novels! It sets out, indeed, chiefly from a Secular point of view; directin... ...there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half-serious, half-comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the great...

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..., that he bore the name of ‘intruder’ from without. He was supposed by the fiction of the case to be in league with his patron for the persecution of ... ...ly on suffer- ance. Do we mean then, that a ‘call’ should sink into a pure fiction of ceremony, like the English conge-d’elire addressed to a dean and... ...- culiarly exposed. This endemic infirmity, in connection with the medical science for which Egypt was so distinguished, easily account for their disc... ...ance, as measured against the very perfection of what may be called poetic science. We will lay open the true purpose of Milton, by a single illustrat... ...nconsiderate examination of his critics, this latent wisdom—this cryptical science of po- etic effects—in the mighty poet, has been misinterpreted, an... ...ll comprehends the grand poetic feel- ing employed and nursed by narrative fictions through the last seventy years in England, though connected by us ... ...ult of his act an emotion of curiosity. But all curiosity is allied to the comic, and is not an ennobling emotion, ei- ther for him who feels it or fo... ... have even dimly guessed at the meaning of a situation in comedy where the comic rested upon arbitrary rules and conventional propri- eties. In all sa... ...ut in that one of her many shapes which to Pope had always seemed the most comic as well as the most hate- ful. Instantly Pope’s ancient malice is rek...

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...t nothing is startling or obtrusive. Even those who break the laws of this science, 23 Balzac either through ignorance or carried away by some impuls... ...he vicissitudes which depress but cannot overwhelm me. “Plautus, the great comic Latin poet, was once a miller’s lad. Machiavelli wrote The Prince at ... ...oliere would have celebrated it if it had been in existence in his day, so comically appropriate is the name. Flicoteaux still subsists; so long as st... ...wrote articles for encyclopaedias, dictionaries of biogra- phy and natural science, doing just enough to enable him to live while he followed his own ... ...cyclopedia of angelic spir- its, each of whom bore the stamp of the art or science which he followed:— David Sechard to Lucien. “My Dear Lucien,—Enclo... ... its action when it serves the cause of party hatred. The most sensational fictions will be invented to increase the cir- culation; Journalism will de... ...stant,” burst out Michel Chrestien, looking at Lucien’s head, and sniffing comically. “Y ou were seen driving about in a very smart turn- out with a p... ...orted Vernou. “Canards?” repeated Lucien. “That is our word for a scrap of fiction told for true, put in to enliven the column of morning news when it... ...ny need for thinking on the part of the author or reader. You bring up the fiction of Voltaire, Diderot, Sterne, and Le Sage, so trenchant, so compact...

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...oubted Ritt-master. The general idea of the char- acter is familiar to our comic dramatists after the Restora- tion—and may be said in some measure to... ...had found his promises and actions inconsistent with each other. “Our con- science,” they concluded, “and God, who is greater than our conscience, bea... ...ble friends,” said Captain Dalgetty, again eyeing them both with an air of comic penetration, “I find it would not be altogether unacceptable to eithe... ...se voice he rose doth to the sage Prospero; and yet, so fond are we of the fictions of our own fancy, that I part with him, and all his imaginary loca... ...ss and tedious. I have the vanity to suppose, that the popularity of these Novels has shown my countrymen, and their peculiarities, in lights which we... ...duced to read Scottish history, from the allusions to it in these works of fiction. I retire from the field, conscious that there remains behind not o...

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...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of Arthur?s Court when...

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... on Comedy by George Meredith On the Idea of Comedy and of the Uses of the Comic Spirit 1 Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwith- stand... ...re productions, that notwith- standing the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If... ...ere reduced to the or- deal of the mantle. There are plain reasons why the Comic poet is not a fre- quent apparition; and why the great Comic poet rem... ...put a stop to the monstrous romantic jargon made popular by certain famous novels. The comedy of the Femmes Savantes exposed the later and less appare... ... of caprices, very feminine, very sympathetic, of romantic and sentimental fiction? Our women are taught to think so. The Agnes of the Ecole des Femme... ...renchments. She is ready to stand a siege, before the heavily armed man of science and the writer of the leading article or elaborate essay have prime... ...nd her a cheer. Benevolent subscriptions assist her to hire her own man of science, her own organ in the Press. If ultimately she is cast out and over... ...traight into a com- edy, were the plot arranged for them. Galt’s neglected novels have some characters and strokes of shrewd comedy. In our poetic lit... ...glish. Many of them now swelling a plethoric market, in the composition of novels, in pun-manufactories and in jour- nalism; attached to the machinery...