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His Style Is Hopelessly:
Beyond a very popular paper in Johnson's Rambler, Richardson wrote nothing more of importance. He continued to prosper in his business, made money, became Master of the Stationers' Company, and eventually Law Printer to the king. He was a nervous, inoffensive, sensitive valetudinarian, delighting in the stimulus of feminine adulation rather than in the robust criticism of his own sex. His style is hopelessly pedestrian and diffuse; but it has an extraordinary cumulative power which attracts, and by degrees detains, the persevering reader.But when Du Camp arrived in Egypt he fa to his dismay that the negatives were hopelessly due, he thought, to the high temperature of the By chance he met in Cairo another expeditionary tographer, by the name of Lagrange, who was on his to India. He advised Du Camp to bathe the prep paper in a second Bath of albumen and potassium iodiq and use it while still moistened with the sensitizii) solution.
He was a finished orator, spoke boldly on many difficult topics of debate, and was one of the most efficient members of his party, which during his whole term of service remained hopelessly in the minority. His statesman-like grasp of affairs is most clearly shown by the constant emphasis which he placed upon the increasing political danger with which the Union was menaced by the slave power. He feared civil war, and preferred a peaceable secession — a course not then seen, as it was later, to be impossible.
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