Did Horace dare take a risk on that poet Rickman? The poet dropped hisaitches for one thing. And there was the matter of that actress he doted on lowclass Yet ... » 

Did Horace dare take a risk on that poet Rickman? The poet dropped hisaitches for one thing. And there was the matter of that actress he doted on lowclass Yet cousin Lucia kept asking about him . . . and Horace did thinkmaybe just maybe Rickman was a genius. But could Horace introduce Rickman tohis club? He yearned to and yet as he told Lucia The burnt critic dreadsthe divine fire In this witty 1904 novel of literary and social manners andfoibles May Sinclair demonstrates all the wit perception and style that madeher one of the most respected and most read novelists of her time. «