Book Notes and Byways.

This article discusses about the published work of Charles Brockden Brown. During his energetic years 1798-1800 Brown published, besides the four romances upon which his name now rests and the flood of journalism by which he then served the republic, a number of essays at fiction so eloquent of the workshop as to arouse curious bibliographers. He had been for at least three years a copious dabbler in romance and had begun many tales of which ho soon tired. But the establishment at Philadelphia, in February, 1794, of the weekly journal of "Original Essays, Fugitive Pieces and Interesting Intelligence," for which Brown was one of the patrons, gave him a public to which he confided his experiments.