The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

1A Royal Crescent has been the subject of a complete restoration and renovation programme by the Bath Preservation Trust during 2012 to reincorporate it into 1 Royal Crescent of which it was the original servants' quarters. 1910); also The Later Nineteenth Century (1909). For ten years he was actively engaged in journalism becoming an important member of the staff of the Saturday Review.