text:  But when the Tiers Etat are portrayed when the satirist enters into detail when he enumerates circumstances when local manners national habits and individual peculiarities fall under his notice; when he describes the specific disease engendered in the atmosphere by which his characters are surrounded; when to borrow a lawyer's phrase he condescends to particulars then it is that close and intimate acquaintance with the scenes and persons he describes is requisite; and that a superficial critic falls at every step into errors the most glaring and ridiculous