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that Mr. Bernard De Voto really qualifies. George Orwell himself is
hardly a Johnson or a Macaulay, but he has a generous supply of the
intellectual robustness (which must, one feels, have a physical basis),
the freedom from mere abstractness, the impatience with "nonsense,"
the capacity for realistic perception, and the general bluntness that we
associate with those names.
All tliis makes him an excellent writer on certain sorts of subjects.
He is, for example, not only vigorous but really acute on the "popular
culture" of his sub-title. The essays in this volume on "Boys' Weeklies,"
on the sub-literary or proto-literary fiction he deals with in "Raffles and
Miss Blandish," and on the comic postcards of one Donald McGill–
these essays not only furnish us with the richest information about the
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