SOURCE: "New Novels: Mrs. Gore's Greville; or, A Season in Paris, and Bulwer's Night and Morning" in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 8, March, 1841, pp. 186-91.

In the excerpt below, Johnstone praises Greville; or, A Season in Paris for capturing the characteristic differences between the French and English aristocracies.

The novel season of 1841 has opened brilliantly. Sir Edward Bulwer makes his bow to the public, after an absence of three years; Mrs. Gore her curtsy, after about the same number of months. The former occupies his original English ground, with no diminution of force and vigour, and with ripened experience of men and manners; the lady has changed the scene, with evident advantage to her readers, both as regards their amusement and information. Mrs. Gore, who has been domiciled in Paris for a good many years, now that she has left that gay capital for London, is exactly in the...