lightful companion to his daughter from one year's end to the other.
Heroine faultless in character, beautiful in person, and possessing
every possible accomplishment. Book to open with father and daughter
conversing in long speeches, elegant language, and a tone of high
serious sentiment. The father induced, at his daughter's earnest
request, to relate to her the past events of his life. Narrative to
reach through the greater part of the first volume; as besides all the
circumstances of his attachment to her mother, and their marriage, it
will comprehend his going to sea as chaplain to a distinguished naval
character about the court; and his going afterwards to court himself,
which involved him in many interesting situations, concluding with his
opinion of the benefits of tithes being done away with . . . . From
this outset the story will proceed, and contain a striking variety of
adventures. Father an exemplary parish priest, and devoted to
literature; but heroine and father never above a fortnight in one
place: he being driven from his curacy by the vile arts of some
totally unprincipled and heartless young man, desperately in love with
the heroine, and pursuing her with unrelenting passion. No sooner
settled in one country of Europe, than they are compelled to quit it,
and retire to another, always making new acquaintance, and always
obliged to leave them. This will of course exhibit a wide variety of
character. The scene will be for ever shifting from one set of people
to another, but there will be no mixture, all the good will be
unexceptionable in every respect. There will be no foibles or
weaknesses but with the wicked, who will be completely depraved and
infamous, hardly a resemblance of humanity left in them. Early in her
career, the heroine must meet with the hero: all perfection, of
course, and only prevented from paying his addresses to her by some
excess of refinement. Wherever she goes, somebody falls in love with
her, and she receives repeated offers of marriage, which she refers
wholly to her father, exceedingly angry that he should not be the
first applied to. Often carried away by the anti-hero, but rescued
either by her father or the hero. Often reduced to support herself
and her father by her talents, and work for her bread; continually
cheated, and defrauded of her hire; worn down to a sk