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Clarentine, a Novel: in Three Volumes. 12mo. 10s. 6d. sewed. Robinsons.
This novel is evidently from the Burney school; and it is said to have been written by a near relative of the successful author of Cecilia and Camilla. In its construction, a perfect regularity of plan is preserved; the events rise in a series, exhibiting the education, early virtues, taste and sensibility, and the more mature sentiments, independent spirit and chastened affection of Caroline. The dialogue is easy, often humorous, and pleasingly descriptive of modern manners and follies. The subordinate characters are rendered necessary to the story; and the attention of the reader is constantly [472] kept up by his being insensibly interested not only in the fate of the heroine, but of the other branches of the amiable family of Delmington. This work, in our opinion, is greatly superior to novels of the ordinary stamp; and it discovers talents from which much may be expected in this department of literature. [complete]
Provided by Julie A. Shaffer, January 2000
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