How does Mrs.Crowe decide?
By the way, I was glad to observe by the papers that she has had a dramatic success.
Your Alexander Smith has noble stuff in him.

It's undeniable, indeed.

It strikes us, however, that he has more imagery than verity, more colour than form.

He will learn to be less arbitrary in the use of his figures--of which the opulence is so striking--and attain, as he ripens, more clearness of outline and depth of intention.

Meanwhile none but a poet could write this, and this, and this.
Your faithfully affectionate E.B.B., properly speaking BA.
July 3.
This was written ever so long since.