The thing is in four volumes, and it seems that a fifth was intended as a close: but there is no particular reason why it should not have extended to forty or fifty, nay to four or five hundred.

It could have had no real end, just as it has no real beginning or middle.
[4] He _has_ a name, Meriton Latroon, but it is practically never used in the actual story.
One other point deserves notice.

The tone of the Spanish and French picaresque novel had never been high: but it is curiously degraded in this English example.

Furetiere honestly called his book _Roman Bourgeois_.

Head might have called his, if he had written in French, _Roman Canaille_.