Mrs. Parsons' 'Miser and his Family' is a severe, and we are afraid, a just satire on the fashionable world, or rather perhaps it may be characterised as the simple exposure of its vices, but such an exposure as has for its object to deter young persons from approaching near that vortex of dissipation in which so many perish. [complete]
Provided by Karen Morton, December 1999
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