EBOOK ATLANTIC MONTHLY,VOLUME 14 ***
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
VOL. XIV.--AUGUST, 1864.--NO. LXXXII.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR AND
FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.
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CHARLES READE.
Some one lately took occasion, in passing, to class Charles Reade with
the clever writers of the day, sandwiching him between Anthony Trollope
and Wilkie Collins,--for no other reason, apparently, than that he
never, with Chinese accuracy, gives us gossiping drivel that reduces
life to the dregs of the commonplace, or snarls us in any inextricable
tangle of plots.
Charles Reade is not a clever writer merely, but a great one,--how
great, only a careful _resume_ of his productions can tell us.
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