They are found often without characters or catastrophies, because these would be often unsuitable to the nature of the subject of which they treat.

They contain repellants rather than stimulants, because their design is the promotion of virtue.

The novel-reader therefore, by becoming indisposed towards these, excludes himself from moral improvement, and deprives himself of the most substantial pleasure, which reading can produce.

In vain do books on the study of nature unfold to him the treasures of the mineral or the vegetable world.

He foregoes this addition to his knowledge, and this innocent food for his mind.