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PUBLIC MONUMENT

TO THE MEMORY OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS Tilt
LATE 1 RINCF.SS CHARLOTTE OF WALES

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and Co.'s batiks
J. Heaviside, Esq.
H. Browne, Esq.
Vaughan, Esq.
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At Taferell and Co.'s
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At Uphant's Library.
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lIARDEkBIiASS AND ILWARILL;
OR, 'THE SECREI OF 'IHE CASII2.

The following übservations on this truly original
and most admirable Novel appeared in the Aisti•Joee-
bin Review for Octcber, 1817 :

" Nardeibren is a work of genius 14 a moral work, ft can
hardly be excelled. Sound principles, right feelings, honourable
sentiments, ate every where predominant, with a detestation and
scorn of vice and folly. Its language is good, its style easy and
familiar ;—it is full of life and matter. The serious parrs are in-
teresting—some of them very pathetic; the love is natural and
affecting—the passion well pourtrayed. But that which distin-
guikes this work, more especially, is a rich and exquisite vein
of humour, that has scarcely ever been surpassed. The Insipldl:y
of modern novels has become almostproverbial; those which pos-
sess the fairest elaMt to excellence, yet have little or no pretension
to humour. in this particular Ilardnaress stands unrivalled.
" We hear it rumoured, that characters 01 high tank, and 110
torlety are supposed to be exhibited, In masquerade, in this ad-
!viral& novel, together with transactions, which, it is said, are
stall the theme of wonder and conjecture. Whether this be the
case, we leave to the decision of such as are better inisentedthan
ourselves. IR the preface to Cminkte, a pleasitig moral tale by
the same author, we find it disavowed. Be this as It may, we
have only to remark, that the satire here displayed, as bear no
sting but that which is derived from its truth, personalities being
cautiously avoided, if not studiously cowealed; and that it is
levelled, exclusively, at vices and enormities, inaceesdble to any
weapon but the pen of the satirist.
" We consider this truly original performing merely as a
work of entertainment ; and so great Is the knee* arids.
front its in rin.te excellence. that the rear, earestlitrle..abou't
any individua b who may be supposed to be aimed -at. Wa.
Bailit original, since the characters are taken only from .tbe
great book of limas' nature, and draws so strongly, and so
ably, from the Marquis to the Welton; Woman, that it Is dill
cult to imagine they are not really ha ezistence, endplaying their
parts on the great stage of the world. lids, perhaps, has given
rise to the opinion mentioned above. in manner, ilardmiresi
bears the tame resemblance to the best works of the kind extant
that those works severally bear to each other. dome degree both
of taste and }edemas is requisite to feel ibe excelleacies of good
works of this eon ; we, therefore, consider tiers moo bad '
stones of the powers of readers. We have beard of **pie who
i think there is no wtt and intatour in Cremates, and that Shah-
spears is a bop of nonsense. To such we by no means recom
mend Nariagkere t but thom who possess the necessary maid-
anima wdl led in it a delightful treat, and. though it Is Ovate
Wasik. rill regret when they come to the conduits's+. However,
it loses sob* by repetition, a sure test of merit. We *ball not
' attempt a dedosatioo of even the principal characters; from their
somber sad variety, our limits are inadequate. We refer our
Readers to the Work itself for them, and ter the NOY y."