the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art. Many ladies have remonstrated and subscribers left me, because, in the course of the story, I described a young man resisting and affected by temptation. My object was to say, that he had the passions to feel, and the manliness and generosity to overcome them. You will not hear-it is best to know it-what moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, news'-rooms,-what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness than is customary has been attempted in this story; with no bad desire on the writer's part, it is hoped, and with no ill consequence to any reader. If truth is not always pleasant; at any rate truth is best, from whatever chair-from those whence graver writers or thinkers argue, as from that at which the story-teller sits as he concludes his labour, and bids his kind reader farewell.

KENSINGTON,

Nov. 26th, 1850.

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CONTENTS.

CHAP.

1.-RELATES TO MR. HARRY FOKER'S AFFAIRS

2.-CARRIES THE READER BOTH TO RICHMOND AND GREENWICH

3. CONTAINS A NOVEL INCIDENT

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5. IN WHICH THE COLONEL NARRATES SOME OF HIS ADVENTURES

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13.-WHICH HAD VERY NEARLY BEEN THE LAST OF THE STORY

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17.-IN WHICH FANNY ENGAGES A NEW MEDICAL MAN.

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28.-IN WHICH PEN BEGINS TO DOUBT ABOUT HIS ELECTION

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-IN WHICH THE MAJOR IS BIDDEN TO STAND AND DELIVER

30.--IN WHICH THE MAJOR NEITHER YIELDS HIS MONEY NOR HIS LIFE

35.-SHOWS HOW ARTHUR HAD BETTER HAVE TAKEN A RETURN-TICKET

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-A CHAPTER OF MATCH-MAKING

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37.-EXEUNT OMNES

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