{70} The subject has been much more gravely treated in Mr. Robert
Bridges's "Achilles in Scyros."
{91} Conjecture may cease, as Mr. Morris has translated the Odyssey.
{109} For Helen Pendennis, see the "Letters," p. 97.
{128} Mr. Henley has lately, as a loyal Dickensite, been defending the
plots of Dickens, and his tragedy. _Pro captu lectoris_; if the reader
likes them, then they are good for the reader: "good absolute, not for me
though," perhaps. The plot of "Martin Chuzzlewit" may be good, but the
conduct of old Martin would strike me as improbable if I met it in the
"Arabian Nights." That the creator of Pecksniff should have taken his
misdeeds seriously, as if Mr. Pecksniff had been a Tartuffe, not a
delight, seems curious.