[73] Wallace. It is now forgotten, except one sentence: “A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.” In this book the later influence of Bulwer and Disraeli is palpable, but Brown's concealed chambers and aimless conspiracies and sudden mysterious deaths also reappear in full force, not without some lingering power; and then vanish from American literature forever.
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[73] Wallace. It is now forgotten, except one sentence: “A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.” In this book the later influence of Bulwer and Disraeli is palpable, but Brown's concealed chambers and aimless conspiracies and sudden mysterious deaths also reappear in full force, not without some lingering power; and then vanish from American literature forever.
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