Macaulay exposes the genial foibles of the sentimentalist and the pret-mentions of clever people. It is a refreshing satire and a most interesting and entertaining study. The poor fools who are demonstrated jo its pages (Mr. Frank Swinner-ton observes) are less interesting than the others, because Miss Macaulay is not really cruel and so does not waste time in making absurd that which is already so by nature, She simply puts the fools in, mordantly, but not maliciously. Her chief butts are the clever ones. In all of them she discovers the "Potter'? taint. The weakness of the book is that it is destructive, that it is a dart hurled in vain against the amorphous mass of common and incurable mental woolliness. It can cure nothing, but will divert all its readers, It will be read all over England, with enjoyment, by Potterites, who will recognize only the foibles of their familiars and not their own fo Nobody will be wounded by it. Subtly flattering, ip will confirm people in their Potterish self-esteem. How clever we are to see the faults of others when they are so clearly and so wittily dissected by Miss "Macaulay
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