KRAUS 24DEC'34 CONTENTS. History of the Plague of London, 1665 . Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible Fire of London, Sept. 2, 1666 (by an anonymous writer) The Storm, or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and 249 ADVERTISEMENT. THE History of the Great Plague in London is one of that particular class of compositions which hovers between romance and history. Undoubtedly De Foe embodied a number of traditions upon this subject with what he might actually have read, or of which he might otherwise have received direct evidence. This dreadful disease, which, in the language of Scripture, might be described as "the pestilence which walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day," was indeed a fit subject for a pencil so veracious as that of De Foe. Had he not been the author of Robinson Crusoe, De Foe would have deserved immortality for the genius which he has displayed in this work. SIR WALTER SCOTT. |