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We have heard of a man who borrowed Bailey's Dictionary from a neighbour, believing it to be a novel or romance: he read and returned it, saying, “This is the strangest author I ever met with: he never writes six lines on one subject." We may say something the same of the author of 'Sir Ralph Esher': he wanders much from topic to topic, from name to name, from sea to shore, from the much troubled to find our way through the intricacies of the story, as a fair friend of ours is, just now, in discovering the right end of the thread in a puzzled skein of silk. We shall, however, say a little regarding the plan of the book, so that our extracts may be the better understood. In the year 1685, Sir Ralph Esher, for the amusement of some of his French connexions, undertakes to write a history of his rise and pro gress at the Court of Charles the Second: this he can accomplish all the easier from own, but from having become the possessor not only having kept a sort of journal of his of the journals and memorandums of others. He relates how he happened to catch a va Venus, from that day, being a buxom little girl, with a nose inclining to the turned-up, and halfshut eyes. So, thought I, the lass of the 'Wedding' looked, when she was going to be married:— Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly.' Such was the ribbon round the waist which made the poet very properly cry out, when he got possession of it, and held it waving in the air,— Give me but what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.' commonwealth to royalty, and from royalty grant feather from the cap of Miss Stewart, playing the romp. Sometimes, when I was say which he presented to the lady with so much to the commonwealth: his work, instead of grace, that King Charles was moved, and a simple narrative embodying an epic tale, is desired him to come to Court. To Court, a succession of episodes public and private accordingly, he went-gained the confidence heroic and familiar-religious and martialof Lady Castlemain-discovered an old acamorous, and pure. But it is quite evident that the writer relied less on the merit of well-quaintance in Nell Gwynne found someconnected story, than on his skill in displaying the characters, and tastes, and manners of the days of the Commonwealth and the King; and assuredly he has given us a very clear and life-like picture of the chief actors and acts in the great drama of those stirring times. Historians, and writers of diaries, and composers of romances, all unite in picturing forth the wit and the worthlessness-the want of all noble aims and lofty emotions of the court of Charles, and at the same time furnish a contrast in the pure, and wise, and martial court of the usurper, Cromwell; but we have never had any one, till now, to give us the clever gossip of the Rochesters, and Buckinghams, and Nell Gwynnes, and Lady Castlemains, and Miss Stewarts, of the days of Charles the Profligate. It is not in the skill of delineating human character alone that these volumes are attractive: there is much knowledge in arts and affairs-an insight into the motives of men, and of women too-a tone of fine domestic feeling-a deep sympathy with female innocence and true love-and, more than all, an air of truth and candour, with an inimitable knack at gossiping, which cannot fail to give the work a currency in circles where the charms of easy and graceful conversation are prized. times an enemy, and sometimes a friend, in the versatile Buckingham-fought against the Dutch under the Duke of York-won the esteem of Sir Philip Herne-was his confidant in a love affair-braved the Plague of London in behalf of his friend-became much enamoured of a young lady, believed to be the natural daughter of the Duke of Ormond, but who turns out to be the lawful offspring his narrative with the double marriage of Sir of Lord Waringstown-and, finally, closes Philip Herne and himself to the ladies of their affection. Though we have accused our author of paying less attention to his story than to the detail of character, our readers must not suppose that he has not aimed at telling one: nay, we rather think, from the pains which he sometimes takes to give explanations, and let in a ray or two of light on dark passages, that he imagines he has told us a very plain and simple tale. We shall not enter into any discussion concerning the necessity of having everything plain and straightforward in narratives either domestic or national; but we will confess, that we have been as Of the characters and the pleasant gossipings of these volumes, we shall now proceed to give some specimens: both are numerous as leaves in the forest, and we cannot use we see the third of what we have marked for The little rogue knew her power, and took the passion in the merriest manner in the world; that is to say, as far as she was capable of it; which was about as much, at that time, as was afterwards in vogue. I was more serious; but nothing could hinder her from laughing and ing tender things, full of gravity, she would put on my hat, and go making a thousand antics over the green, for me to catch her. Another time she would dip her head into a great tub of water, and come shaking the curls in my face. Unfortunately, she was not unwilling to make me jealous. I was scrupulous on that point, and hence we came to have some quarrels. However, we parted in July on the best terms, with exchanges of locks of hair, only she was eating a great piece of cake all the while: for which I could have beaten her." i. 48-50. A Wit's Opinion of Hudibras. "Butler's Hudibras, a new poem lately come out, gave me some very uncomfortable sensaand the bitter and vulgar contempt showered on tions, between the love it exhibited for loyalty, opinions which I had been taught to respect. I wished if possible to unite the two, or at least not to see reverend mistakes treated so irre verently, and I was glad to find that others had been perplexed as well as myself. The wit and the rhymes however made me laugh heartily; and I longed to see the author, while I was glad to think the rest of his poem obscure and untranscription. We shall string them together readable. The bookseller told me, that the as they occur in the work. Cowley the Poet. "I rode one day on purpose to see Cooper's Hill, because Mr. Denham had written a poem upon it; and hearing that Cowley was coming to see Mr. Evelyn at Wootton, I went there and He had a book in his hand, with his finger bewaited all the morning, till I saw him arrive. tween the leaves, as if he had been reading. He was a fleshy, heavy man, not looking in good health, and had something of a stare in his eye. Before he entered the gate, he stooped down to pinch the cheeks of some little children at play; and afterwards, when I heard he was put in prison, I could not, for the life of me, persuade myself that he deserved it." i. 43. King carried it about in his pocket; and that the author expected some great place at court; but, said he, there are so many idle tales, and so many expectors, that one never knows what to believe." i. 129. a How Sir Ralph Esher played the Courtier. "I got a repute for being both a hearty and judicious admirer of wit and poetry, and this procured me the regard of the men I was most anxious to please. Lord Buckhurst liked me because I was discriminating; Sir John Denham, because I listened with respect; Sir Charles Sedley, because none of his similes were lost on me; and Mr. Waller, because I thought him the greatest poet that ever was. I had some misgiving on that point, when I thought of poor Mr. Cowley, who died not long afterwards. Mr. Sprat (lately made Bishop of Rochester, then the Duke of Buckingham's chaplain,) took me to see that great and good man in his retreat in the country, where he talked so delightfully of rural pleasures, that I began to sigh after my old fields, till I heard him say he had realized nothing but agues, and that the Arcadians in his vicinity were anything but what they should be, |