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IF in the case of some novelists it makes little or no difference what their private life and personal experience have been, there are many others whose existence we ought to know with fair intimacy, before we can even begin to understand their work. Captain Marryat assuredly belongs to the latter class. If we are to put ourselves at the right point of view to estimate those novels by which he lives Peter Simple.
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