SELECTIONS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF R. E. H. GREYSON, ESQ. EDITED BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ECLIPSE OF FAITH.' NEW EDITION, LONDON LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS. 1858 210. L.195. The right of translation is reserved. 66 Few books, recently issued from the press, have evoked more discordant criticism than Mr. Greyson's "Letters." They: are very "amusing," they are very "stupid ;" they are very profound," they are very "shallow." According to one critic, no real correspondence was ever so dull; according to another, equally disposed to condemn though on other grounds, "they are very lively and pleasant reading." "No," cries a third, rather notorious for sceptical tendencies, and shocked at Mr. Greyson's egregious want of "charity" in the treatment of "Secularism," they are "too offensive to be dull,""-forgetting that his own columns too often prove that it is very possible to be both. If you believe some writers, Mr. Greyson's "Letters" are full of "wit, logic, and imagination" to a degree Mr. Greyson himself would never have suspected, except for such critical aid. If you believe others, his reasonings are full of "shallow.sophisms;" and his humour |