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*The Maid of the Hamlet*
	(Review / *The Maid of the Hamlet. A Tale, by Regina Maria Roche*)
	Critical Review, April 1794
	New Series, v.10

If there are those who can find amusement in these two volumes, sufficient to beguile the taedium of a rainy day, or the pain of a fit of the toothache, it is an amusement they may be allowed to take without scruple, provided only they forget them again by the next day; for as there is nothing in the story of the Maid of the Hamlet, which will contaminate the mind by passing through it, so neither is there any thing which can possibly improve it by being retained there. Little inaccuracies of style in such a work, it would be hardly fair to notice, but we were surprized to meet with the phrase a beaux.