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wrong and indignity she is the likeness of a being of every day life, the 

 fidelity of which we cannot but recognize one whose affections no in- 

 jury can abate, no cruelty subdue, who, without a murmur, clings to the 

 husband of her choise through good and evil, even to death. 



But that part which displays the greatest knowledge of the human mind, 

 is an episode called the " Confession of John Wilson." Jack Ketch, in 

 passing down the Borough, sees his uncle getting off a stage-coach; he 

 had just returned from some professional affair in the country, and had in 

 his pocket a MS., which the unfortunate, for whom he had officiated, had 



intrusted to him, to deliver to the clergyman of E . Jack goes home 



with his uncle, and reads it aloud. This is the most striking tale that we 

 have read for many years ; in fact, we have seen nothing like it since Caleb 

 Williams it is the philosophy of crime the motives which are supposed 

 to actuate the human heart to the commission of the most frightful atroci- 

 ties are developed and laid bare, and embodied in a tale of the most power- 

 ful interest. 



This wood-cut does the artist great credit, it represents the children of 

 Wilson finding the knife with which he murdered his friend many years 

 before. The little creatures bring it to their father, and the sight of it 

 produces a revulsion of feeling, which at last occasions the crime for which 

 he suffered. 



Jack's uncle one morning is discovered suspended to a beam by one of 

 his own ropes whether a victim to professional experiment, or occasioned 



