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Excerpt from The National Portrait Gallery
Lord Lytton is the son of one who, for nearly half a century, took rank amongst the central figures of English literature. The author of The Caxtons, rejoicing in his own great literary success, had a cosmopolitan heart; and it would have been strange, seeing the interest be exhibited in other literary men, if he had not ardently welcomed the developing genius of his own son. He beheld in him, not only one in whom was reproduced very largely his own outward lineaments, but a similarity of mind and tastes; though the son scarcely possesses that originality (except as regards his poetry) which made Edward Lytton bulwer-lytton the widely-known essayist, orator, dramatist, and statesman. Could the latter have lived, however, to witness his son attain an elevation to which he himself would scarcely venture to have aspired, we can well understand what would have been the nature of his feelings at this recognition, on the part of the Queen, of hereditary genius.
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