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With this allowance, it is written in the interest of good manners and good morals, and with enough of natural tact to keep the writer from getting far beyond her depth, although she does talk of "Goethe's Mignion" and "Miss Werner," whoever these personages may be, and of "the substantial fame achieved by the unknown author of 'Rutledge." It is written in the prevalent American newspaper-style, a style which is apt to be graphic, piquant, and dashing, accompanied by a flavor, slight or more than slight, of flippancy and slang, a style such as reaches high-tide in certain "popular" native authors, male and female, and in ebbing strands us on "Jennie June."

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864