as tending to abate envy, and conciliate content;
by shewing, in a variety of instances, that appearances are frequently
fallacious; that perfect or permanent happiness is not the lot of mortal
life; and that peace of mind and rational enjoyment are only to be found
in bosoms free from guilt, and from intimate connection with the
guilty."

[7]
I have omitted two or three unessential stories in the analysis.

[8]
Act I, sc. ii. In the novel the heroine is shut up by a miserly hunks of
an uncle to force her into a detested mercenary match with his son. In
the play the mistress is the wife of the old and jealous keeper of the
asylum.

[9]
Preface to _The Mercenary Lover_, (1726).

[10]
_The Rash Resolve_, (1724).

[11]
_The Double Marriage_, (1726).

[12]
Lodge's _Rosalynde, ed._ E.C. Baldwin, p. 19. _Philidore and Placentia_
(1727), p. 12.

[13]
Miss C.E. Morgan, _The Novel of Manners_, (1911), 100.

[14]
A companion-piece to the third edition of _The Mercenary Lover_, (1728).

[15]
A companion-piece to _The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress_.

[16]
_Monthly Review_, XXXVIII, 412, May, 1768. _Clementina; or the History
of an Italian Lady, who made her Escape from a Monastery,_ etc.

[17]
_Critical Review_, XXV, 59.

[18]
In both editions is advertised "Persecuted Virtue: or, the Cruel Lover.
A True Secret History, Writ at the Request of a Lady of Quality," which
was advertised also in the _Daily Post_, 28 Nov. 1728. I have not found
a copy.

[19]
An anonymous poem prefixed to Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd's _The Happy
Unfortunate; or, the Female Page_ (1737) testifies to Mrs. Haywood's
reputation in the following terms:

"Yeild [_sic_] Heywood yeild, yeild all whose tender Strains,
Inspire the Dreams of Maids and lovesick Swains;
Who taint the unripen'd Girl with amorous Fire,
And hint the first faint Dawnings of Desire:
Wing each Love-Atom, that in Embryo lies,
And teach young Parthenissa's Breasts to rise.
A new Elisa writes," etc., etc.

CHAPTER III

THE DUNCAN CAMPBELL PAMPHLETS

Only once did Eliza Haywood compete with Defoe upon the same ground.
Both novelists were alive to the value of sensational matter, but as we
have seen, appealed to the reader's emotional nature from different
sides. Defoe with his strong interest in practical life looked for
stirring incidents, for strange and surprising adventures on land and
sea, for unusual or uncanny occurrences; where