Clarisse, " Clarissa Harlowe," a celebrated novel pub

lished in 1748 by Samuel Bichardson. This great novelist was bom in 1689, in Derbyshire; died 1761. <<< Clarissa Harlow' folly established the literary réputation of Bichardson ; and its pathos, its yarîety of character, and minute development of the human heart will cause it eyer to be regarded as a work of genius."