ABSTRACT
This method certainly has the advantage of affording the author the opportunity of varying his style, by adapting it to the characters of the different persons he introduces; an advantage of which Richardson avails himself very successfully; which was by no means the case with Rousseau; for although his Eloisa is written in letters, in imitation of Clarissa, he has failed in adapting the style of the letters to the characters of the supposed writers, in the same happy manner that is executed by Richardson. Through the whole of the [N] ew Eloisa, whether Julia, St. Preux, Clara, or any other name be attached to the letter, you always perceive that Jean Jacques is the real writer.
