-----. "Recent Novels," The Nation. 41, Dec 24 1885. 538-539.
Comments and Quotations, chronologically through the article:
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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)
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"Miss Braddon is such a notorious culprit that we mention her only to give our accusation the
support of numbers." (538)
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"After such a surfeit of unpardonable inferiority and mediocrity. . . [which includes
Braddon's "Cut by the County." (539)
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