SOURCE: “Henry Kingsley's Novels,” in The Critic, Vol. 26, March, 1895, p. 176.

In the following anonymous review, the critic applauds a reprinting of Kingsley's novels and responds to negative criticism published in The Saturday Review.

We heartily welcome this tasteful reprint of the best of Henry Kingsley's novels, which are certainly not inferior to those by his more famous brother, if, indeed, as some excellent critics have maintained, they be not superior to them. He might have been the more famous of the two if he had happened to come before the public first; but Charles, being the elder by eleven years, had the start in authorship by about that period. In such cases the critics are apt to think that the younger man is aping the elder, and hopes to float his poor imitations of the latter on the strength of the family prestige. We recollect that, when Henry...