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Art. 31. Dudley. By Miss O'Keeffe, Author of Patriarchal Times &c. 12mo. 3 Vols. 1l.1s. Longman and Co. 1819.
This novel is uniformly moral, and in some parts entertaining and even original. The history of Don Zulvago might have conveyed a striking warning, if it had been constructed with more attention to probability in the incidents, and if the Don and his companions were not made to reject, receive, and give away, so many princely fortunes, that readers accustomed to plod over dot and go one can keep no account of their disbursements. We must add that Lady Alford addresses her brother, on the death of his wife, in a strain of raillery which is somewhat unfeeling. A few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors must also be noticed, as (vol. I. P. 274.) 'I asked her would she sell me;' - (p. 279.) 'A little girl threw me a smile and dropped me a curtsey!' - (p. 325.) 'I enquired had he returned?' - (p. 326). 'At what hour did Colonel Powis leave?' &c. &c. [complete]
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