Download or read book The St. Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Sciences, Vol. 4 written by S. Warrand and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The St. Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Sciences, Vol. 4: First Year But though it is possible that this deception began in acci dent or thoughtlessness, we cannot doubt that the natural predisposition of her mind was towards artifice and maneuv ring. It was early remarked as a prominent defect in her no vels that all her heroines were exhibited as the victims of trifling annoyances and imaginary difficulties. From which two words of candour and common-sense would have extricated them. The same error' runs through her own memoirs. She represents herself as thrown into eonfusions, embarrassments, terrors, miseries, and so forth, by the most ordinary Occur. Rences of common life. If she is spoken to, she is in a flutter of modest agitation: if not spoken to, she is still more alarm ed at such ominous silence. Lf complimented, she is inclined to creep under the chair: if not attended to, she retreats into indignant seclusion. She is afraid to make tea at an evening party, lest she should appear too obtrusive; and if she does not, she is in still worse agonies, lest she should be thought supercilious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.