ABSTRACT
The chief dramatis personae of The Wilderness are a Scotch Irishman, and his wife, with their sons and daughters; an American Irishman, with an Irish Irishman, for his servant; a sort of mad Indian, who turns out to be a Frenchified Scotchman; together with General Washington, and a few other mere nondescripts. The plot is carried on by means of the wars of the last century between the French and English settlers of the western wilderness, and the loves of General Washington, who plays the double part of Romeo among the ladies, and Alexander the Great among the Indians, with signal success. The introduction to The Spectre of the Forest expresses that the author has found with the public all the favor, which he so highly deserves. The machinery of horror is far more various and complicated than in The Wilderness.
