windy, flowery 'eloquence,' romanticism, sentimentality--

all imitated from Sir Walter, and sufficiently badly done, too--

innocent travesties of his style and methods, in fact.

This sort of literature being the fashion in both sections of

the country, there was opportunity for the fairest competition;

and as a consequence, the South was able to show as many

well-known literary names, proportioned to population,

But a change has come, and there is no opportunity