 The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.  The greatness of Charles Strickland was authentic.  It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest.  He disturbs and arrests.  The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him