Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), February 1, 1845, vol. 1, no. 5, p. ??

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MIKE MARTIN, OR THE LAST OF THE HIGHWAYMEN. By F. A. Durivage. Boston: Charles H. Brainard & Co., 1943.

This is the story of an Irish pick-pocket of the same name, who was hung in Boston twenty-three years ago. His confession was very ample and romantic, and Mr. Durivage has worked it up into a romance of the Jack Sheppard school. Such characters, if held up in a proper light, may do good after their execution, to others besides the surgeon; but when made the heroes of romance, there is but too much danger that their evils will live after them. The rope that ends their lives does not always end their mischiefs. All writers who take a thief for their hero, should also take the History of Jonathan Wild for their model.