ABSTRACT
It is not at all easy to deal with The Unclassed. As its title indicates, it treats of persons and subjects which have been by general consent excluded from English fiction. Not that Mr Gissing has made any attempt to make sensational capital out of his subject-nobody need fear in him a pioneer of the school of M. Zola. He is earnestly full of the idea that no class is really very black, or indeed, anything less than very white, and he has therefore sketched some fancy portraits ofvery high-minded, but otherwise ordinary young persons, and then labelled
