This book is interesting because Maxcy presents some interesting analysis of setting, characterization, and plot. I set this up now, however, because in browsing the book I found some interesting examples of the use of semicolons, examples illustrate that semicolons are not only used to imply differences, but also cohesion. Consider, for example, the following two sentences:

When Pizarro obtained possession of Cuzco, he found a country well advanced in the arts of civilization:institutions under which the people lived in tranquility and personal safety; the mountains and the uplands whitened with flocks; the valleys teeming with the fruits of a scientific husbandry; the granaries and warehouses filled to overflowing; the whole land rejoicing in its abundance; and the character of the nation, softened under the influence of the mildest and most innocent form of superstition, well prepared for the reception of a higher and a Christian civilization. But, far from introducing this, Pizarro delivered up the conquered races to his brutal soldiery; the sacred cloisters were abandoned to their lust; the towns and villages were given up to pillage; the wretched natives were parceled out like slaves, to toil for their conquerors in the mines; the flocks were scattered, and wantonly destroyed; the granaries were dissipated;the beautiful contrivances for the more perfect culture of the soil were suffered to fall into decay; the paradise was converted into a desert.