Tame, in his History of English Liter-genie of Chance, 28a wu in the Canterature," gives a strip comparison of the
who acts balixe. his gumeretion, del bee portrait painter,
tenty, "the thirty master-forms of the:
can of the verdurous landscape. and ith century,
spring-time of England." If we had such a poet painter in our day, could hey T won forms," and what Toanner of would ler, as many conspicuous "master-
tthe and Grenty pllgriois, who, eooorted by 18 portray, as companion pictures to the
"<mnine hoste of the Tabard," ambled along to Thomas' shrine that fine spring morning? Whom would he choose as the representative men and women, clad in our garb, and speaking Victorian English as the itgeist constrains them
nineteenth century 6 vulgar, Place avec dames. He might find the plessure-hunting "Wyte oF Bath, in het enormous targe-like hat, in the Woman of Fashion whose one aim in life is to be seen will, But sil spelen of; whoae clothes are cen of, respectfully or not, as you
not only of the richest stuff, but cut in the most fantastic and outrageous style that she and her man-milliner in council can scandal, in the newest slang ise; whose conversation is the latest
whose jaded thirst for amusement seel stimulant in music-halls; and whose litorary sustenance is drawn from Society journals.
For the dainty, min affected Abbess, with her ten for her "'smale going belief in all the legends of all the Saints, our artist houndes," and her thorough: can present to the world the latest development of the Literary Lady. She is an advanced and emancipated thinker; she Jong ago cast modesty, charity, faith, all a woman should hold dearest, to the' winds and now, unscrupulous, her shrill accents wafted further by the pulls of her publi religion, ancial institutions, womanhood, as er, she strides across the stage, railing
it was, (and will be, again, after her), making of herself, with involuntary altruism, a deacon and warning to the rest of her sex.
Whose likeness shall take the place "f that of the learned clarke of Oxenford {Shall it not be the Magazine Writer's This embodiment of versatility, to whose ready and swift-flowing pen nothing in heaven or earth comes amiss? You would think he had been travelling to the remotest countries, surveying mankind from
written, and doing everything worth doing, China to Peru; reading all the books ever Indoor and out, om Ha chltnood ups there a stone, with half-obliterated inscription, turned' up on the bank of Stanley Pool, our man of letters can' fill up the blanks for us. Does a ministry collapse, and ruin threaten country, lie knew wherein lay their strength and weakness, and if their successors will but be guided by him, public safety, prosperity, morality, cummercal security, Will be established a firmer basis than ever. Does an expedition against some obscure tribe of coffee-coloured savages fail, he, the all-wise, is to the front with his inevitable "I told you so." No doubt, as Job said of his comfort-people, wisdom will die with them. ers, these gentlemen of the press are the ye your old monthly magazines; 50 shall you possess universal knowledge, and is not knowledge power 7 For worthy representatives of Chaucer's "very par fit gentile knight," we have Men of the Time, like him, brave, wise, humble i ing into the secrets of unknown lands; living for others holds of vice, ignorance, and gallery, but as a prance th will adorn the but as a remembrance they are unnecessary, for these men are'the salt of the
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