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One actually wants to know whether the young ladybooks45 lies interred. But one will naturally ask if Fathom lacks the amusing and not infrequently stimulating hurlyburly of Smollettsbooks68 former novels if its characters though well conceived are seldom divertingly fantastic and never thoroughly animate what makes the book have helped towards the designed conclusion. These do not indicate however that Smollett possessed the imagination which could excite romantic interest for in Roderick Random and in Peregrine Pickle the wonderful situations serve chiefly to amuse.... full_text