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313 Pageds. Complete & Unabridged! The Mr. Pett Ridge is a capital humourist, and incomparable in his own way as an observer of the characteristics of the lower middle classes, their pathetic little bits of pride, their harmless vanities, and the odd manners, which do not irritate us, because we look on them from a distance. He is at his best in short studies: his method is hardly broad enough, nor his material rich enough for a novel. There is much that is improbable and far-fetched in his...