Synopses & Reviews
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Synopsis
For drollery knowledge of the world various satire general utility united with great vivacity of composition Gil Blas is unrivalled: but as a merely agreeable book the Memoirs of Grammont perhaps deserve that character more than any which was ever written: it is pleasantry throughout pleasantry of the best sort unforced graceful and engaging.