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These lectures are produced in the cheapest possible form, that the valuable information they contain may be brought within the reach of every person in the land; they are deserving the attention of every one who takes an interest in the now all important subject of education. They have been published with, and under the sanction of the Council of the Society of Arts. Neither politician nor moralist, yet something of both— neither a weeping philosopher nor a mocking satirist, yet skilled in all the weapons of wit and wisdom-is the great writer whose name stands at the head of our page. That he is a man of lively and universal ambition, or, rather, that his conscious powers cannot endure to be foiled by anything, we may discern by a glance at the present list of Messrs. Routledge. * * * We can trace him from vein to vein, and from age to age; from the revels of the gay Pompeians to the feats of the romantic highwaymen-from the table of Bolingbroke to the feast of Harold-from the Byronic twilight of sentimentalism to the lightsome day of My Novel. Turn another page, and the same hand, weary of perpetual conquest, has tried another field, and is already a successful dramatist, and a writer of terse and powerful verse. This is surely a wide enough basis to build reputation upon; and when it is added that Sir E. B. Lytton, when it pleases him, can speak as well as write, it may be fairly acknowledged that this restless intellect, this prompt and curious mind which is not content to leave any pursuit untried, has followed, with a worthy enthu siasm, almost all the peaceful pathways that lead to fame. It is considerably more than twenty years since, in Pelham, the young author made his début, with a brilliance which we in these days look back upon with envy. A first appearance is not nearly so much an event now as then, for novel-writing was much less a common amusement twenty years ago, and the public had greater leisure to be interested. But he who would read Pelham to-day, does not get it in the musty volumes of its primitive issue: it is now one of those perennial books which are always renewing themselves, and you can choose your edition. To say what Pelham is, may look somewhat unnecessary at this time: how a young, inexperienced, and unmatured intellect could have produced it, is its great wonder, and that it is worthy of the Bulwer of to-day is its great praise. * * * * * We know no writer who has so many periods in his literary history; nor can we classify Sir E. B. Lytton's works better than by the painter's jargon, with its early and late Raphaels, its pictures after such and such a style. In "his first manner' Pelham stands alone; and then at intervals we have the legitimate historical novel, the mystical sentimental, the criminal picturesque. Paul Clifford, Eugene Aram, and some part of Night and Morning-which, however, we are bound to admit, is a powerful and striking story, full of interest and character, which may very well take ground on its own merits-represent the last. We take the Last of the Barons, Devereux, and Harold, as the best specimens of the historical, and are content, to leave the rest within the vague and dreamy precincts of the |