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(Review /
Hubert de Sevrac: a Romance, of the Eighteenth-Century, by
Mary Robinson)
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European Magazine /JAS, 1797 |
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vol 31 p35 |
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This is a romance of a more sober and probable cast than the preceding [Radcliffe's The Italian], though there are not wanting in it scenes of horror of the same kind, which we do not conceive add in the least to the value of it. The characters of Mrs Robinson's work, particularly Hubert, are natural and well discriminated; and there are interspersed through the whole many reflections on the conduct of human life, which shew the author to be an attentive observer of the manners of the world, and consequently better qualified to instruct it than most who undertake this species of composition. What we least approve of in this work is an evident partiality towards French Philosophy, and something too much of the cant of French Democracy.
[complete]. Provided by Julie Shaffer, July 1999.
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