Some have agreed with him, some have differed with him.

Some, in one of the natural if uncritical revulsions, have questioned whether even _Evelina_ is a very remarkable book.

Some, with human respect for the great names of its early admirers, have passed it over gingerly--not exactly as willing to wound, but as quite afraid or reluctant to strike.

Nay, actual critical evaluations of the novel-values of Miss Burney's four attempts in novel-writing are very rare.

I dare say there are other people who have read _The Wanderer_ through: but I never met any one who had done so except (to quote Rossetti) myself: and I could not bring myself, even on this occasion, to read it again.