ABSTRACT
The coincidences between fiction and reality are perhaps the very circumstances to which the success of the novels is in a great measure to be attributed. One great source of the universal admiration which the family of Novels has attracted is their peculiar plan, and the distinguished excellence with which it has been executed. In addition to the loose and incoherent style of the narration, a leading fault in the novels is the total want of interest which the reader attaches to the character of the hero. The deliverance of Lord Evandale occasions an open breach betwixt Thomas Morton, the hero of the novel, and his father's friend Burley, who considered himself as specially injured in the transaction. At length, after some changes of fortune, Lord Evandale is made prisoner in a sally, and on the point of being executed by the more violent party of the insurgents.
