tonska

Updated: May 29, 2025

The simplest, like old Lanze and his daughter Lina, are intrinsically commonplace; the most elaborated, like Madame Tonska and the duke Jean-Théodore, waver between familiar types and questionable shadows; and those that, like Laudon and the Gennevilliers, promise better results, are imperfectly developed. Such defects would be fatal in a novel of the ordinary kind.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875