![]() ![]() “And what are you reading, Miss - ?” “Oh! It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ![]() “I am no novel–reader - I seldom look into novels - Do not imagine that I often read novels - It is really very well for a novel.” Such is the common cant. ![]() There seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. "Yes, novels for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel–writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding. ![]()
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