ABSTRACT
As for "Edgar Huntly," so greatly admired by Dr. Hall for its fine diction, the style of that almost forgctten book is regarded by the histcrian Prescott (who reviewed it, sympathetically and 'On the whole admiringly, in cne of his miscellaneous essays) as charaderized by "unnatural condensation, unusual and pedantic epithets and elliptical forms of expression, in perpetual violation of idiom"-an opinion in which I think every reader of the novel will concur. The second sentence runs thus: "At length does the im-
