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Miss Van Kortland
August 25, 1870 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Miss Van Kortland. A Novel," by Frank Lee Benedict. In this novel the coarseness takes instead the form of a revolt against American pruderies of thought and speech, which is all very well in its way, but is in this case obtruded too persistently and unnecessarily not to suggest the doubt whether restrictions which are felt so keenly are not, in the special instance, salutary. The author relies too much on nicknames and exaggerations and repetitions. He devotes altogether too much space to these farcical episodes, which in no way help the progress of the story and altogether interfere by their broadness with the pleasant impression of its writer, which the book gives as a whole.

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MISS Van Kortland. A Novel (Book); BENEDICT, Frank Lee; BOOKS; FICTION; THOUGHT & thinking; NICKNAMES
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