106 Whyte-Melville's Sermon. 



This is a sermon from Whyte-Melville's best sketch of 

 real life ; and, if the moral which he points induces one 

 youngster only who has broken out, or is about to break 

 out, to stay his hand, the gallant author's ghost has not 

 been invoked in vain. 



Thackeray believed hugely in "week-day preachers; " in 

 other words, authors who tell the simple story of life : and 

 so, I should think, do most of us. 



