Not so, we trust, as to the belief expressed by Belle Brittan, in puffing "Jim Parton's, Fanny Fern's Jim's," Life of Burr,"more charming than a novel," because, as she implies, of the successful libertinism of its hero,when she says, speaking in the name of the maidens of America, "We all, I suppose, must fall, like our first parents, when the hour of our temptation comes"!

But it is as stupid as it is infamous to pretend that such natures as these find any warrant for their tragic libertinism in Walter Pater.