Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (unabridged)

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A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Passing by those grand romances of Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, and Kenilworth, with their terrible intricacies of crime and bloodshed, constructed with so fine a mastery of the art of exciting suspense and horror, let the reader pick out those two exceptional novels in the series which profess to paint contemporary manners and the scenes of common life; and remembering in the Antiquary the vision in the tapestried chamber, the duel, the horrible secret, and the death of old Els peth, the drowned fisherman and above all the tre mendous situation of the tide-bound party under the cliffs; and in St. Ronan’s Well, the long-drawn mystery, the suspicion of insanity, and the catastrophe of suicide; -v determine whether an epithet which it would be a profanation to apply to the structure of any, even the most exciting, of Sir Walter Scott’s stories is fairly applicable to tales which though i1 limitably inferior in execution yet observe the same limitations of incident, and the same moral aims..