BOOK REVIEW: Megan Perigoe Stitt.METAPHORS OF CHANGE IN THE LANGUAGE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION: SCOTT, GASKELL, AND KINGSLEY. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. and Stephen G. Alter.DARWINISM AND THE LINGUISTIC IMAGE: LANGUAGE, RACE, AND NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Baltimore, MD and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.