For the New-York Weekly Magazine.
A RECEIPT FOR WRITING NOVELS.
Take a heroine, free from the tincture of vice,
Renown’d for fine feeling, in sentiment nice;
No matter what country her birth may be found in,
But be sure that her name is quite grand and high-sounding;
Make a peevish old crab, that at nothing would faulter,
And who fully deserves for to swing from a halter;