to write an imaginary voyage which might unite similar
elements of interest and excitement with the inculcation
of Christian, religious, and moral sentiments.
For his own purposes he plagiarized them a little,
and I am very far from wishing to contend that it
is impossible that he may also have worked in some
vague accounts of the wonders of America, which had
reached his ears from the adventurous voyages of the
Norsemen, if indeed his date were late enough, possibly
of even earlier navigators, now to us unknown.
But as an whole, I look upon the Fabulous Voyage as
a composition which is really only differentiated
by the elements due to the time and place of birth
from religious novels such as those which enrich the
pages of the Leisure Hour or the Sunday
at Home.
20 AND 21, BEDFORDBURY, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.