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ART. 43. - Andrew Stuart, or the Northern Wanderer. A Novel. By Mary Ann Hanway, Author of Ellinor, or the World as it is. 4 Vols. 12mo. 18s. Boards. Lane. 1800.
Although the work before us is rather a collection of smaller histories than one united tale, (for, to use the author's own words, the notes are longer than the story) yet the novel-reader will at times be highly gratified by the wanderings of Andrew Stuart. We do not, however, approve of the fair writer's adoption of the jargon of her different personages. The frequent repetition of the wee housee, &c. gives no idea of Scotch conversation; and the landlord's assertion of his being a knowing one - up to a thing or two - a rum kiddy, that could gammon the deep ones, we are sorry to find even understood by the softer sex: such phrases are fit for the Newgate Calendar only.
[complete] Provided by Julie A. Shaffer, September 1999.
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