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From the language and conduct of the principal characters exhibited in this novel, young persons may learn to despise rank and fortune, and to sacrifice all other considerations to omnipotent love. They may find also a panegyric upon Reason, and upon its happy effects in the present age, put, somewhat indelicately, into the mouth of a female, (vol. i, p. 165). The author, or authoress (as she will have it) seems to plot unhappily, when she repeatedly represents the conversations of love, and of avarice, as overheard (vol. i, pp. 50, 134; vol. ii, p. 19). The sonnet at p. 31, induces us to recommend to her an abstinence from writing verses. [complete]
Provided by Julie Shaffer, July 1999.
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