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To convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of Typee and Omoo has here placed before the reading public, is impossible in the scope of a review. High philosophy, liberal feeling, abstruse metaphysics popularly phrased, soaring speculation, a style as many-coloured as the theme, yet always good, and often admirable; fertile fancy, ingenious construction, playful learning, and an unusual power of enchaining the interest, and rising to the verge of the sublime, without overpassing that narrow boundary which plunges the ambitious penman into the ridiculous; all these are possessed by Herman Melville, and exemplified in these volumes.
Excerpt from the London Morning Advertiser, October 24 1851
We can infer that the reviewer form the London Morning Advertiser views Herman Melville's book as
Decent, but nothing special.
Philosophical, but not very interesting.
A masterpiece of fiction
Interesting, but not very philosophical.
Well intentioned, but not executed very well.
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