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earlier poems of Dryden Euphuism waned, and cursory readers 
would say that it died then and could never rise again. Yet 
there never has been a time during the three centuries when it 
had entirely disappeared. Extremes meet, and its influence 
may easily be detected in the writings of men who would have 
scorned the suggestion. Dr. Johnson’s studious substitution of 
long words from the Latin for the simpler Anglo-Saxon speech, 
his padding out a sentence with redundant epithets—this was a 
species of euphuism. And Carlyle’s wilful disregard of English 
grammar, and the immense labour he took to be peculiar, stamp 
him also as In some measure an Huphuisi. If young Philip 
Stanhope had laid to heart all the teaching given him by 
Lord Chesterfield, he would have become one of the euphuists 
of the Georgian era. There was something of the style of Lyly 
in Krasmus Darwin, when he described the colour of a certain 
plant as that of “a seraph’s plume.” Alliteration still retains 
its charm. It is found in perfection in Tennyson. The late 
Laureate made his poetry courtly, lesser men try to make their 
courtliness poetical. The art of Dante Rossetti was like a 
mosaic made of precious stones of speech; he found ‘“‘ a luxury 
of delight in using delicate elisions, musical alliterations, and 
sweet sibilants. His was the poetry of enchanted symbolism.” 
Antitheses we still cherish. They are found in rich profusion in 
Macaulay. Archdeacon Farrar follows with equal elaboration 
but less effect. The titles given by Ruskin to his works are 
quite in the fashion of the Elizabethan humour. Forgive the 
title and enter on his books, and you will find all the graces of 
euphuism without its pedantry. Another feature of euphuism 
which still remains in English society is the respect paid to the 
gentler sex. Herein was the true spirit of chivalry—a lofty ideal 
of knighthood and a reverence due te the reserve of womanhood. 
Lyly spoke of English ladies as ‘‘ being in prayer devout, in 
bravery humble, in beauty chaste, in feasting temperate, in 
affection wise, in mirth modest, in all their actions though 
courtly because women, yet angels because virtuous.” 
Is euphuism to be found in our own age? ‘The careful, 
laborious, painstaking of Lyly is not too common now a days. 
Many publications with large circulation are slipshod in style 
and worthless in character. They are characterised by the 
affectation of indifference. lLyly’s writing had the affectation of 
interest. Care for the culture of the English language has too 
frequently given way to proficiency in the English slanguage. 
Considering the difficulties under which the modern newspaper 
_ is produced, and the haste with which most of the articles must 
be written, we cannot expect the gallant tropes or the elaborate 
artifices of the Euphuists. Yet surely the euphuistic style, with 
some modifications, is well adapted for journalistic writing, 
