But there is no reason why you should not take the plot and act on it yourself.

You are a known man; the public relishes your works; anything bearing the name of Snooks is eagerly read by the masses; and though Messrs.

Hookey, of Holywell Street, pay you handsomely, I make no doubt you would like to be rewarded at a still higher figure.
"Unless he writes with a purpose, you know, a novelist in our days is good for nothing.

This one writes with a socialist purpose; that with a conservative purpose: this author or authoress with the most delicate skill insinuates Catholicism into you, and you find yourself all but a Papist in the third volume: another doctors you with Low Church remedies to work inwardly upon you, and which you swallow down unsuspiciously, as children do calomel in jelly.

Fiction advocates all sorts of truth and causes--doesn't the delightful bard of the Minories find Moses in everything?
M.Gonzales's plan, and the one which I recommend to my dear Snooks, simply was to write an advertisement novel.