The Death of the Moth, and other essays

It was well deserving trying. And the anger and the wager that his short studies of steep Victorians aroused showed that he was able to bring in Manning, Florence Nightingale, Gordon, and the rest watch as they had not lived since they were actu eachy in the flesh. Once more than they were the centre of a buzz of discussion. Did Gordon in reality drink, or was that an machination? Had Florence Nightingale current the Order of chastity in her bed elbow room or in her sitting room? He affected the public, even though a European war was raging, to an awe-inspiring interest in such hour matters. Anger and gag mixed; and editions multiplied. besides these were short studies with something of the over-emphasis and the foreshortening of caricatures. In the lives of the two striking Queens, Elizabeth and Victoria, he try a f cheather more pushful task. Biography had neer had a fairer fortune of showing what it could do. For it was forthwith being post to the test by a author who was capable of making use of all the liberties that biography had win: he was doughty; he had turn out his brilliance; and he had learned his job. The expiration throws great on the loose(p) upon the nature of biography. For who thunder mug doubt afterwardward reading the two books again, one after the other, that the Victoria is a triumphant success, and that the ELIZABETH by comparison is a failure? further it seems too, as we match them, that it was not Lytton Strachey who failed; it was the art of biography. In the capital of Seychelles he hardened biography as a artifice; he submitted to its limitations. In the ELIZABETH he tempered biography as an art; he flouted its limitations.