Excerpt from A Sporting Quixote, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, the Life and Adventures of the Honble Augustus Fitzmuddle, Afterwards Earl of Muddleton

Those who read novels for ingenious plots, stirring incidents, and sensational characters, are warned that nothing of the sort is to be found on these premises, and that, on the contrary, spring-guns are set which may explode unexpectedly, and compel them either to throw down the volume in disgust, or go through the exceedingly disagreeable process which is known as thinking.

Indeed it may be doubted whether this little book deserves the name of a novel at all. Is "Don Quixote" a novel? or "Sartor Resartus"?

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