[3] Both passages are quoted on page 129.
[4] Also in the _Quarterly_, 1821.
[5] It is scarcely necessary, perhaps, to remark that the word
“realism” is used, here and elsewhere, without any reference to the
limited significance it has recently acquired. Realism, of course,
really means truthfulness to life, _including_ imagination, faith,
poetry, and the ideal; and _not_ a photographic reproduction of certain
unpleasant, more or less abnormal, phases of human nature.