text:  We are indebted for this class of fashionable novel to outlaws of both sexes; persons who might have held but for their own misconduct respectable positions in society; persons of this sort have the impudence with their no-characters staring them in the face to set up as public instructors and to give us ensamples drawn from their own perverted imaginations of a class of which they might have known something but which it is now past human possibility they can ever know