An indomitable courage and persistency meet us everywhere in his pages,persistency, and also careful painstaking, and patience in sifting facts and gathering results.

To find four different terms for nearly the same idea "difference," "odds," "distinction," and "contrariety," involves considerable painstaking.

Here the critic gives full scope to his inclination for minute analysis; the history of the author of "René" explains his works, and these in turn are made to tell his life,that life so full of love of effect, and constant painstaking to seem rather than to be.

If we are to believe Poe's Philosophy of Composition, and there is, I think, more truth in it than is generally allowed, the vitality of The Raven, as that, too, of his genuinely imperishable fictions, is less due to inspiration than to the mathematical painstaking of their composition.

Marston is not an author of enough importance to make it desirable that we should be put in possession of all the corrupted readings of his text, were such a thing possible even with the most minute painstaking, and Mr. Halliwell's edition loses its only claim to value the moment a doubt is cast upon the accuracy of its inaccuracies.