How They Strike Me, These Authors

The crown of the work. (Edward Bulwer Lytton)--A captivating novelist. (William Black)--A charming story-teller. (Miss Thackeray)--An ingenious moralist. (George Eliot)--A novelist who means business. (Anthony Trollope)--A crude novelist. (Rhoda Broughton)--A gossiping novelist. (Mrs. Oliphant)--An overrated poet. (Alfred Tennyson)--The poet of the Sierras (Joaquin Miller)--The philosopher of crime. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)--A man of taste. (Henry James, jr.)--An American humorist. (Bret Harte)--A