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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI SONNETS OF THE CENTURY 1885 was a year of hard work. It was our desire that such work should be done that should eventually make it possible for my husband to devote himself exclusively to original work ? perhaps in a year or two at most. Meanwhile the outlook was satisfactory and encouraging. He held the post of London Art-Critic to the Glasgow Herald, was on the staff of The Academy, then under the Editorship of his good friend Mr. James Cotton; and he wrote for The Examiner, The Athenaum and other weeklies. On the appearance in The Athenaum of his Review on Marius the Epicurean the author expressed his satisfaction in a letter: 2 Braumore Road, March 1, 1885. My Dear Sharp, I have read your article in The Athenaum with very real pleasure; feeling criticism, at once so independent and so sympathetic, tobe a reward for all the long labours the book has cost me. You seem to me to have struck a note of criticism not merely pleasant but judicious and there are one or two important points ? literary ones ? on which you have said precisely what I should have wished, and thought it important for me, to have said. Thank you sincerely for your friendly work Also, for your letter, and promise of the other notices, which I shall look out for, and greatly value. I was much pleased also that Mrs. Sharp had been so much interested in my writing. It is always a sign to me that I have to some extent succeeded in my literary aim when I gain the approval of accomplished women. I should be glad, and feel it a great compliment, to have Marius translated into German, on whatever terms your friend likes ? provided of course that Macmillan approves. I will ask him his views on this point. As regards the ethical drift of Marius, I should like to talk to you, if you were...
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