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"A clever story of English high life as it is represented to-day." "A decided story-interest and some clever character drawing." The Outlook. "Katherine Massarene is drawn with a skill that makes her one of the best female characters that 'Ouida' has given us." Public Opinion. 12mo, cloth, $1.25 Author of "Chamber Over the Gate," Etc., Etc. "Will be read with interest." Chicago Record.
Still, the story-interest only begins when Waverley rides into the bear-warded avenue; it certainly never ceases till the golden image of the same totem is replaced in the Baron of Bradwardine's hand. And it is very particularly to be observed that this interest is of a kind absolutely novel in combination and idiosyncrasy.
All this could not but tell; the incidents in a book like "Waverley" are unforced: the advance of the story closely imitates Life in its ever-shifting succession of events: the reader soon learns to trust the author's faculty of invention. Plot, story-interest, is it not the backbone of romantic fiction?
Clare may be a bread-and-butter heroine, and Wilton a milk-and-water lover, but the designs of Marmion against both give a real story-interest, which is quite absent from the Lay. The figure of Constance is really tragic, not melodramatic merely, and makes one regret that Scott, in his prose novels, did not repeat and vary her.
The decay, now not to be arrested, though its progress was comparatively slow, was more evident in the last two works of fiction which Scott completed, Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous. The loss of command both of character and of story-interest is indeed very noticeable.
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