Andrew Becket

Neither the Critical nor the Monthly reviewer (the latter of whom was Andrew Becket ) seems to have looked back at notices of The Gamesters, since both assumed that the author of this novel...

Again the reviews were favourable. The Critical praised the simplicity and pathos of the little Tale and its adminstering of morally salutary distress.Andrew Becket in the Monthly concurred, feeling that the pathos...

With this book AB began to lose the sympathy of the reviewers. The Critical thought not only that the story was sometimes improbable and obscure but even that the moral tendency was questionable. Andrew Becket

The two albums comprising the manuscript had been transcribed in Rotterdam while in the custody of the Rev. Benjamin Sowden , by young men on their travels, who borrowed it overnight and managed to copy...