In Victorian days authors wrote{ THe Pracrican Book or ORIENTAL novels all about life and people, and Russ.—By G. Griffin Lewis, they were rather particular i about Illustrated. " (Lippincott). their style; in fact, they must have studied writing as an Art. Nowadays anyone can write, and no one bothers about style or form or how words should be used. Words are nothing to us modern authors; and when all is said and dono, what's in a word? What really counts is the spirit behind the words. The Victorians were very materialistic; we are distinctly spirituelle—rather an improvement, I think.
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