text:  May it never lose its appropriate language of verse--that language which so well comports with its high ideal character being one which as a French poet has happily expressed it the world understands but does not speak-- "Elle a cela pour elle-- Que le monde l'entend et ne la parle pas!" The drama is peculiarly appropriate to the ideal; and it seems to me that the very fact that whatever appertains to the middle region of art or requires the aid of much circumstance and detail has found in the novel a far more perfect development ought to induce us to purify the drama and retain amongst us its most exalted type