Chapter 13

"Anything of their sort more striking and vivacious cannot be conceived; the more complete descriptions are as buoyant and racy as the briefer; a few strokes of the pen place a scene clearly before the mental vision, and in very few instances can it be reasonably charged upon the writer that he is sacrificing fact to fancy, the literal to the ideal. Then comes the caution, wisely insinuated, the moral reading of the gay illusion, the exhibition of the interior corruption of the fruit, fair and fascinating to behold. So suggestively, yet so skilfully, is this done, that we should not be surprised to hear that the perusal of this volume had drawn away many votaries of vice from its debasing follies. Certain we are that the author's dramatic style is used with wonderful effect, and in a manner that we hope to see long employed on kindred subjects and for kindred ends."--_Weekly Record_.

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LONDON: WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.