Mr Plausible Prate; Or, The Adventures of An Insurance Agent

The object of the author, a barrister well known in the masonic Craft, is to satirise the doings of certain Assurance Companies of the West Midlands stamp and this he has accomplished in a manner that leaves to be desired by the reader. the sketches of character with which the volume is filled display considerable comic power a profound knowledge of the ingenious artifices of those who are so fond of trading on the credulity of the public and in the insurance world.