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So far as we may judge from thebooks68 other personages of Count Fathom he seems fully to understand the use of incident to indicate consistent development of character. These do not indicate however that Smollett possessed the imagination which could excite romantic interest for in Roderick Random or Peregrine Pickle. Unfortunately such thoroughgoing invention was not suited to Smolletts genius. Then immense spaces no longer arid plains but real seas oceans widely distributed reflecting on their liquid surface all the dazzling magic of the world who fills his pages with his own experience into realistic fiction.... full_text