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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 67
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3.—The Morals of May Fair. Hurst, Blacke...
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lives in a mean lodging , applies personally to Director after Directormeeting with a rebuff here and an impertinence there , often
failing , but never discouraged ; how , strong in love and faith , she conjures , wheedles , and coaxes invalid and half threatened -crazy witnesses to
to give herself evidence wei in hs favour nothing of her in the brother balance ; how against the her idolized poverty brother ' s memory g and good name ; how , finally , she and her cause
prevail It is , a the reader lot must on learn which for to himself hang . much of interest or excitemeagre
ment , and if , in some p respects , 6 Year after Year' be unworthy the reputation of the talented author of ' Paul Ferroll , ' no little skill
and address are evidenced in rendering such a book readable .
Notices Of Books. 67
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 67
3.—The Morals Of May Fair. Hurst, Blacke...
3 . —The Morals of May Fair . Hurst , Blackett , and Co .
the Why fashionable the author West shoul End d have " to selected point a moral that homoe and adorn opathic a tale portion , " when of
the follies and vices held up to derision have no such local habitation , and the dramatis ? are equally innocent of house or home
thereinwe are at persona a loss to conjecture . Possibly , the alliteration was the , temptation to the title , for May Fair has no more to do in the
with the book itself than Timbuctoo or the man moon . the Bl honours oomsbury of , the Brittany scene , ; Portland and the Place " Morals , and " we Wimbledon suspect to , divide be as
native A doting to Bel uncle gravia , an and unloved Tyburnia and unloving as May wife Fair . , consequent
estrangeauthor ment , and for subsequent the heroand separation an artless ; a g fashionable irl for the heroine and handsome , sacrificed young to
novel welcomes the selfish ingredients the passion grave for , and that a lax three saves princi volume her p from les tale of his . her pursuit A lover certain , furnish , till freshness the no reader very of
to diction the book , power and of observation carry one p , leasantl and savoir y on vivre to , however the characters end . , lend The suffered a author charm
to writes point of what the moral he ( or for she themselves ?) has seen . , and There the is no lack are of interest the forciblrendered
either and the in innate plot or purity incident of . M Some arguerite of is scenes admirabl are y conceived y 2 and ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/67/
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