CAXTON.--"You see that Roland tells us exactly what sort of a book it shall be." PISISTRATUS.--"Trash, sir ?" MR.

CAXTON.--"No,--that is, not necessarily trash; but a book of that class which, whether trash or not, people can't help reading.

Novels have become a necessity of the age.

You must write a novel." PISISTRATUS (flattered, but dubious).-"A novel! But every subject on which novels can be written is preoccupied.

There are novels of low life, novels of high life, military novels, naval novels, novels philosophical, novels religious, novels historical, novels descriptive of India, the Colonies, Ancient Rome, and the Egyptian Pyramids.