Wye Jay Probable Pseudonym (1 results)

[ii], 372pp., 8vo. A little spotting at beginning and end, but an unusually nice copy in the original blind-patterned green cloth, spine gilt. First and only edition, surely by a pseudonymous author, and an odd, rambling novel. It probably got its just deserts in a contemporary review in National Graphic: People who may not happen to come across this novel need not be apprehensive that they have thereby missed a pleasure. "Jay Wye" thinks it possible that ill-natured critics may even find fault with his grammar. With such sentences before us as "When gentlemen commence chess us poor ladies are entirely forgotten," and "Dear me! how carefully one ought to confine oneself to their subject," we should think this very probable. Not in Sadleir or Wolff; seven locations in OCLC, of which two (Stanford and Texas) are in the United States.