SOURCE: Review of Our Mutual Friend, in Nation, 21 December, 1865, reprinted in Dickens: Hard Times, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, ed. by Norman Page, Macmillan Press, 1979, pp. 152-56.
In the following review, James asserts that Our Mutual Friend is uninspired and disappointing, filled with implausibly eccentric characters.
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