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The Columbia History of the British NovelThis man is "an excellent Schollar" with a "liberal Education," and Colonel Jack learns Latin; the plantation does better than ever during the next twelve years. Colonel Jack is increasingly burdened with a conscience about his state, and causes his «Tutor» to turn from teaching him Latin to instructing him in the scriptures, but biblical instruction is interspersed with "History," stimulating Colonel Jack's desire to see more of the world: this introduces the second half of his tale, which is more episodic than the first, although it finally returns him to Virginia, to a wife, and from there to trade and riches in the West Indies. The reader learns of his wealth through the appropriate journals, books, and lists. As in Roxana, the plot ends rather abruptly with Colonel Jack living in retirement, as if to create some physical space between himself and his past and between the reader and the «History» that he has presented. If we are led to repentance, as he hopes, the means of persuasion follows a historical method ...» |
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