ABSTRACT

Isabinda is evidently the production of a writer not unacquainted with the more familiar scenes of life and manners. It appears to aim, in some parts, at a resemblance with Evelina; but stands indisputably below the object of its imitation. The characters are such as to excite an interest in the event of the novel; and the tendency, so far as we can discover, both of the facts and sentiments, is such as to throw the balance of advantage into the scale of virtue. Family Secrets; Literary and Domestic. By Mr. Pratt (1797).2