Excerpt from The Imagination: And Other Essays
I was first induced to read George MacDonald by the late Rev. Dr. Gannett, who said that he had found more in him and got more from him than in or from any author whose name belonged to the current literature of the day. This commendation on so high and grave authority led me to make acquaintance with him, and I can cordially second the testimony of my venerable friend; yet not because I underrate other men who are justly favorites in the reading world, but because MacDonald is a class by himself, and as such, holds in his own vein, and in minds receptive of his influence, a sole place; while on other lines of thought and sentiment, attention and interest are more or less divided and distributed.
He is best known by his novels, and they furnish the most genuine test of the quality and strength of his intellectual fibre. As stories, they are by no means faultless. They often have ill-constructed plots, awkward denouements, unnatural incidents, and impossible characters; and the conversations, though never dull, are abnormally prolix, and when the person speaking can be supposed to have a provincial dialect, its vocabulary is aired to the reader's utter weariness.
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