For the characteristically mean and squalid one must go up higher in the scale of civilisation.
{30} Of all the reviews of _Lavengro_, extraordinary as many now appear, it was left for the month of July in the year of grace 1900 to produce the most delightfully amazing.

We subjoin it verbatim from the _Catholic Times_ of July 27th, 1900.
"LAVENGRO: THE SCHOLAR, THE GYPSY, THE PRIEST.

By George Burrow.

With an introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton.

(London: Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd.) 2s.
"We suppose the publishers find that this sort of literary rubbish, suffused with antediluvian bigotry of the most benighted character, pays: otherwise, no doubt, they would not have issued it as a volume of their 'New Minerva Library.' It consists of a twaddling introduction by Mr.
Theodore Watts-Dunton, who tells us he has been 'brought into personal relations with many men of genius,' and so on _ad nauseam_, and of a sort of novel by Mr.Burrow, in a palpable imitation of the style of De Foe without a spark of De Foe's ability.