ABSTRACT
But he wasn't a charlatan, this Dyce Lashmar, whose character the four hundred and odd pages, the incidents and incidental personages, of Mr Gissing's book are intended to illustrate. Or, ifhe was a charlatan, then so are Tom, Dick and Harry, for the most part, charlatans; then so are all men charlatans, who would fain be taken at a higher valuation than their true one.
