ABSTRACT
Wilkie Collins’ confession of faith as a novelist is comprised in the above speech of his sprightly heroine, Miss Jessie Yelverton, in TheQueen of Hearts. He is emphatically a storpy-writer. He is unrivalled in the construction of an elaborate and intricate plot, and he certainly succeeds in making his readers ‘go on reading, reading, reading, in a breathless state, to find out the end.’
