almost sure to find that _it has been overdone_.

3. The great mass of his translations, published and unpublished, and
the smaller mass of his early hackwork, no doubt _deserves_ judicious
excerption.

4. 'The Romany Rye' _did not appear_ for six years, _that is to say, in_
1857.

5. The elaborate apparatus which most prose tellers of fantastic tales
_use_, and generally _fail in using_.

6. The great writers, whether they try to be like other people or try
not to be like them (_and sometimes in the first case most of all_),
succeed _only_ in being themselves.

7. If he had a slight _overdose_ of Celtic blood and Celtic-peculiarity,
it was _more than made up_ by the readiness of literary expression which
it gave him. He, if any one, bore an English heart, though, _as there
often has been_, there was something perhaps more than English as well as
less than it in his fashion of expression.

8. His flashes of ethical reflection, which, though like _all_ ethical
reflections _often_ one-sided.

9. He certainly was an _unfriend_ to Whiggery.

10. _That it contains_ a great deal of quaint and piquant writing _is
only to say_ that its writer wrote it.