ABSTRACT
This is an amazingly silly book. Indeed it is almost silly enough to be amusing through its very absurdity. It records, if we have counted rightly, three attempts at suicide, two plots to murder, one case of bigamy, two bankruptcies, one sanguinary attack by Indians, three visions, numberless dreams, and one shipwreck. The nearest approach to a tolerable character in the work is the hero’s mother, and even she is of the most foolish type of womankind conceivable to the human imagination. Indeed the characters generally are so weak and so sketchily drawn as to be beneath criticism….
