ABSTRACT
From a review of Bohn’s edition of Defoe, in the National Review, iii (October 1856), 380–410. In his opening paragraphs the anonymous reviewer discusses works such as Memoirs of a Cavalier, Captain Singleton and the Journal of the Plague Year, which he finds satisfactory only as history, not as personal narrative. In the remainder of the article, reproduced here, he turns to the novels ‘proper’. See also Introduction, p. 21.
