England, given the realistic nature of its representatives and the calm clear vision of Lloyd George, always favoured in general the more moderate solutions as those which were more likely to be carried out and would least disturb the equilibrium of Europe.

You remember how realistic my illusionary Emerald City was?

" There are other respects in which we can trace Mr. Kipling's likeness: in his youthful precocityhe was twenty-five when he wrote his Metamorphoses; in his daring as an innovator; in his manly stalwartness in dealing with the calamities of life; in his adventurous note of world-wideness and realistic method of handling the improbable and uncanny.

It is refreshing to see that the German literary taste is becoming gradually more realistic, pure, and natural, turning its back on the romantic school of the French.

Didactic as well as descriptive, it was designed not merely to present realistic pictures but to arouse certain explicitly stated thoughts and feelings.

The Deserted Village was in point of fact an imaginative idyll,the supreme idyll of English poetry; but Goldsmith insisted that it was a realistic record of actual conditions.

There is no doubt that, in many instances, his allusions to place are intentionally vague; and, in some of his most realistic passages, he avowedly weaves together a description of localities remote from each other.

Mr. Aubrey de Vere tells of a conversation he had with Wordsworth, in which he vehemently condemned the ultra-realistic poet, who goes to Nature with "pencil and note-book, and jots down whatever strikes him most," adding, "Nature does not permit an inventory to be made of her charms!

The animals are piled on the rocks in realistic confusion, and another class comes out with twenty-five paper fishes to be arranged in the waves of sand.

"The Great Diamond Robbery," one of the films, was in progress, and there, depicted on the canvas, amid many figures, he saw himself, the most pronounced in that realistic group.

The tales of outdoor life, especially the exciting times they have when engaged in sports against rival schools, are written in a manner so true, so realistic, that the reader, too, is sure to share with these boys their thrills and pleasures.

A well-written book, and one which gives a realistic description of a condition of life which is the outcome of centuries of isolation,Leeds Mercury.

In opposition to Schopenhauer and Kuno Fischer it must be maintained that the alterations in the second edition consist in giving greater prominence to realistic elements, which in the first edition remained in the background, though present even there.]

He explained the difference between the romantic and realistic methods in the reviews; he played with a poetic drama to be called The King of the Beggars, and it was not until the close of the third year that he settled down to definite work.

But they were realistic and they contained within them the seeds of later drama in the aptitude with which they grafted into the sacred story pastoral and city manners taken straight from life.

The shepherds who watched by night at Bethlehem were real English shepherds furnished with boisterous and realistic comic relief.

Seventeenth century love poetry was idyllic and idealist; Donne's is passionate and realistic to the point of cynicism.

The writings of Dante on the horrible torments of the damned, and the realistic pictures of the same subject in frescoes and other pictures of the same date, showing the flames and the flesh hooks and the harrows, indicate the transforming effect of those cruel times, fifteen generations ago, upon the disposition of men.

His approximation at times to the confines of French realistic art is of the most accidental or incidental kind.

(In Young's realistic stories magazine, Mar. 1928)

Victor Hugo: a realistic biography of the great romantic.

Two worlds: a realistic approach to the problem of keeping the peace.

This is a realistic representation of "The Resurrection," and when the writer examined it a few weeks ago, it seemed in danger of perishing for lack of a little care and attention.

The villa goes to the Academy, the villa goes to the theatre, and therefore the art of to-day is mildly realistic; not the great realism of idea, but the puny reality of materialism; not the deep poetry of a Peter de Hogue, but the meanness of a Frithnot the winged realism of Balzac, but the degrading naturalism of a coloured photograph.

The realistic school following on Wagner's footsteps discovered that a novel had much better be all narrativean uninterrupted flow of narrative.