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Inference
An unsigned review from 1812 uses several phrases that appear nowhere else in the journal but turn up often in the surviving letters of its editor. The same review praises a novel that the editor privately called unreadable in a letter written that week. Editors of the period routinely rewrote what contributors sent them, so the phrasing may show only the editor's rewriting of another writer's review, and thus
Which choice most logically completes the text?