• The article begins with an analogy, explaining that a manufacturer can't produce something good, then palm off terrible goods later on. "That a similar doom does not overtake the novelist guilty of like breach of confidence, is ascribable to the more lavish distribution of those qualities necessary to detect and expose imperfection in cloth, than of those which help to the discovery of a fraud in story-telling and to accurate expression of its form and proportion." (538)
• "Miss Braddon is such a notorious culprit that we mention her only to give our accusation the support of numbers." (538)
• "After such a surfeit of unpardonable inferiority and mediocrity. . . [which includes Braddon's "Cut by the County." (539)

Pamela E. Bedore