Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor #230705

The dedication also contains some indicate the attitude which the author took toward his first novel I do not, he says, rest the interest of the book on its slender plot, but on the fidelity with which it represents certain types of character and phases of society. That in it which most resembles caricature is Oftenest the transcript of actual fact, and there are none Of the opinions uttered by the various characters which may not now and then be heard in almost any country community of the Northern and Western States.