first applied to. Often carried away by the anti-hero, but rescued
either by her father or the hero. Often reduced to support herself
and her father by her talents, and work for her bread; continually
cheated, and defrauded of her hire; worn down to a skeleton, and now
and then starved to death. At last, hunted out of civilised society,
denied the poor shelter of the humblest cottage, they are compelled to
retreat into Kamtschatka, where the poor father quite worn down,
finding his end approaching, throws himself on the ground, and after
four or five hours of tender advice and parental admonition to his
miserable child, expires in a fine burst of literary enthusiasm,
intermingled with invectives against the holders of tithes. Heroine
inconsolable for some time, but afterwards crawls back towards her
former country, having at least twenty narrow escapes of falling into
the hands of anti-hero; and at last, in the very nick of time, turning
a corner to avoid him, runs into the arms of the hero himself, who,
having just shaken off the scruples which fettered him before, was at
the very moment setting off in pursuit of her. The tenderest and
completest _eclaircissement_ takes place, and they are happily united.
Throughout the whole work heroine to be in the most elegant society,
and living in high style.'

Since the first publication of this memoir, Mr. Murray of Albemarle
Street has very kindly sent to me copies of the following letters, which
his father received from Jane Austen, when engaged in the publication of
'Emma.' The increasing cordiality of the letters shows that the author
felt that her interests were duly cared for, and was glad to find herself
in the hands of a publisher whom she could consider as a friend.

Her brother had addressed to Mr. Murray a strong complaint of the
tardiness of a printer:--