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Rose-mount Castle; or, False Report. A Novel. By M. I. [sic] Young. 3 Vols. 12mo. 10s. 6d. Boards. Lane. 1798.
We cannot recommend this work either for entertainment or instruction. It is almost destitute of fable or any excitement to curiosity, if we except the introduction of a gang of Irish defenders, who rob and murder in a very sentimental style, and one of whom becomes afterwards a personage of high consequence in the groupe of lords and dukes, having relinquished his youthful errors. Many characters are introduced, and coupled in love-matches, all which prove abundantly prosperous; but there are no traits in their history so interesting as to compensate their vapid and common-place conversation, which occupies the greater part of the work. [complete]
Provided by Julie A. Shaffer, January 2000
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