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Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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Title: Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics
Author: Various
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
VOL. XIV.--AUGUST, 1864.--NO. LXXXII.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
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CHARLES READE.
Some one lately took occasion, in passing, to class Charles Reade with the clever writers of the day, sandwiching him between Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins,--for no other reason, apparently, than that he never, with Chinese accuracy, gives us gossiping drivel that reduces life to the dregs of the commonplace, or snarls us in any inextricable tangle of plots.
Charles Reade is not a clever writer merely, but a great one,--how great, only a careful _résumé_ of his productions can tel