This seems to be a feature of a great many Victorian literary works in my experience. Unfortunately it's a feature which seems to be infectious. Tim On 17 Dec 2010, at 20:33, Francis Wood wrote:
> > On 17 Dec 2010, at 16:44, Tim Rolls wrote: > >> Discuss! > > One of the most remarkable qualities of this paper is Doubleday's > extraordinary talent for using a colossal number of words to say absolutely > nothing of any importance. > > A very narrow bore, in my view. > > Perhaps I'm being too unkind to him. The paper's an interesting curiosity. I > got it a while ago as a print-on-demand thing from Amazon. > > Francis > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
