Four years after this, in 1844, he led the way in the revival of old-faced types.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
He genuinely admired the Florentine revival, and to admire is to be jealous of those who take in vain.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
It is this sentiment for place as well as for people that sometimes gives us in his books a remarkable poetic strain-a strain like music in its caressing revival of old associations.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood