The rest are mostly marred by a superabundance of rather rudimentary art, and a very poor allowance of matter.

There is hardly any character, and except in a few pieces, such as Lodge's _Margarite of America_, there is little attempt to utilise new scenes and conditions.

But the whole class has special interest for us in one peculiarity which makes it perhaps unreadable to any but students, and that is its saturation with the Elizabethan conceit and word-play which is sometimes called Euphuism.

Nor is this wonderful, considering that more than one of these "pamphlets" is directly connected with the matter and the personages of _Euphues_ itself.

To this famous book, therefore, we had better turn.
Some people, it is believed, have denied that _Euphues_ is a novel at all; and some of these some have been almost indignant at its being called one.