Note 8 — INTRODUCTION ON THE IMAGINATIVE QUALITY

There is a touch also of his grandfather in the “Mr. Putney Giles” of Lothair, who: “never made difficulties, but always overcame them.” In both “Miriam” (Alroy) “Venetia” and “Myra” (Endymion) there are direct transferences from his sister’s temperament; and “St. Barbe” is far more Hayward than Thackeray.