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(Review /
Palmira and Ermance. A Novel, by
Mary Meeke)
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Critical Review, October 1798 |
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New Series, v.24 |
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Innocent entertainment, without any fixed purpose of the moral kind, appears to be the object of this novel. The characters, principally those of France under the old government, are drawn with spirit. The dialogue is lively; and the incidents of the first and second volumes are interesting. The character of a fop, partly on the English and partly on the French plan, is well sustained, and is exposed to just contempt. In the third volume, the story is unnecessarily [237] spun out; but upon the whole, this is one of the most amusing of the second-rate novels.
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