Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, 1830, Vol. 30: Part III. Historical Register
Things that are, and things that seem, Quickly succeed each other; and the writer's plan, if plan he can be said to have had, is a resolution that his reader shall not weary - that a change shall come o'er the spirit of his dream, before the threatened yawn is consummated; and in this we think he has been successful; fun, with all its hundred faults, the book is a highly entertaining one. The tamest part is that in which he has described Cape Town and its inhabitants; and the cause is probably this - that in a Very limited society, it would have been difficult to sketch the manners and the follies closely Without the suspicion of personality: if this was his motive, though, in avoiding it, he has occasionally become vague and desultory, we cannot blame him.
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