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MEMORIES OF MEN ABOUT TOWN.”

AMUSING PEN-PICTURES OF SOCIETY IN GEORGIAN DAYS.

SOME FAMOUS FIGURES IN HARRIETTE WILSON'S BOOK.

Men of Fashion.

She was soon to attract a more

she attended, dressed like a young recruit in a blue riding habit and an embroidered jacket or spencer. worn over it, trimmed and finished after the fashion of the regiment's uniform, and a little grey fur stable-cup with a gold hand

Sword Drill.

Harriette Wilson's "Memoirs "¡ past eleven o'clock, at night, could | dance as morning parade, which (unabridged edition), recently isu-have no particular interest for a Fed by Peter Davies (7a. 6d.) are the child like myself; so lately in the

tale of London literary circles | habit of retiring early to rest." lo-day. Harriette was the daughter of a Swiss watchmaker, named Dubochet, who had a shop in May- fair, and she was born on February

1788 According Harriette, her mother was the natural daughter of a country gentleman and war brought up by Lady Frederick Campbell. It is difficult to know why the girt should have married a Swise tradesman twenty years older than herself. In course of time abe bore him fifteen children, bas 30 reason to suppose that Tik Nuttiss! the wurd dror is

to

of whom Fanny, Amy, and Sophia, | in addition to Harriette herself, became well-known ladies of the town. After az extrémely eventful career in London. Harriette went to Paris where she wrote her memoirs, which were immediately successful

congenial admirer, Frederick Lamb, the son of Lord Melbourne, who warmly approved of Harriette. Indirectly, Frederick Lamb was

It was from the window of Lord responsible for the Memoirs as he Worcesters' Barrack room that she introduced Harriette, young as she listened to Sergeant Whitaker fea- was, Shakespeare, Milton, ching the sword exercise. The Dri- Byron, Virgil and "The Ram-tish N.C.O. does not seem to have bier." There are few insincere changed at all in the last hundred statements in this bock and one years as this extract will show

Harrietto pretended to a love of literature that she did not really feel. It is true that she boggled a little at the study of Greek and Roman history, and she tells us with some pride that the studied Greek history for two whole days and Roman for six. She had a Thirty English editions were pub quick eye for a character and a lished in a year and a French ver- situation and her narrative style is sion testified to their great popu- an racy and compelling as possible. larity. Several of the authoresa's The value of the book lies in the eminent victims, threatened pro-gallery of portraits that appear in secution, which is not surprising, its pages. One is inclined to agres ami two, who, were not eminent at with one of Harriette's friends, all, won actions against the pub-Lord Ebrington, who told her that lisher, Stockdale. He could afford she had not been lucky in her pro- to laugh as the proceeds of sales tectors, and the procession of men were above £10,000. Harriette her- of fashion whe had the honour to self was not discontented with her support Miss Wilson at different life in the French capital.

times, inakes, on the whole, a sorry show. We are not given their side of the incidents depicted, but their chief failing seems to have been meanness, which way that Harriette found intolerable. She never fails to comment on every manifestation of it as it affected herself and her sisters.

With the earnings of the book she had written, and the probably greater earnings of the one che had refrained from writing, she settled down and married a M. Rochfort, who, it may be feared, belonged essentially to that middle class in society, which Harriette so cordial

y despised. She returned to Eng- Viscount Deerhurst obtained the land a pious widow, and died in affections of her young sister 1840, in world which had already Sophia, when she was thirteen, by felt the saintary moral influence of giving her prechts of dieap jewel the young Queen.'

Tory and sending them to the girl Like all good writers, Miss Wil-in-boxes, bearing the name of an son plunges direct into her sub ject, I shall not pay why and bow 1 became, as the age of fifteen. the mixtress of the Earl of Craven I resided on the Marine Parade, at Brighton; and I remember that Lord Crayon used to draw cocoa trees, and his fellows,

he called them, on the best While he

was with her, "Lord vellura paper, for my amusement. Worcester appears to have been the Here stood the enemy, he would best of the hunch. He found her say; and here, my love, are my society eo charming that his Colonel fellows; there the encoa trees, etc. put him under arrest until Har It was, in fact, a dead bore. Allriette promised to make herself the cocon trees and fellows, at responsible for his regular atten-

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expensive jeweller, Frederick Lamb, who introduced Harriette Shakespeare and Virgil, was always bemoaning his own poverty, and vet ho managed to enjoy himself nightly at parties and route while Harriette was left without consola- tion at her house.

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oney a carahun. At t'wurd suards, ye drord um hout, tekin a farm un possitif grip o'th'hilt! sem time, throwing the' shith smartly backords thus Dror? Here the men, forgetful of the caution which had just been given them, began to draw. Steady there! Never. finger or a bigh to move i'th'- hed. Dror suarda!!

Harriette bad a talent for sum- ming up a man in a few words.-{ She is severe on the famous Beau Brummell, who was not the soul of honour in money matters-a very important thing in Harriette's world "The only talent” she wri- tes. I could ever discover in this beau was that of having well- fashioned the character of a gentle- man, and proved himself to be a tolerably good actor; yet to a dice "observer, a certain impenetrable, unnatural stiffness of manner proved him but nature's journey- man after all, but then his wig- his new Freach wig-was nature itself."!

Lord Byron, on the other hand, cuts a remarkably good figure. He was generous to Harriette and ap preciated her intelligence.

They met at a masquerade at Wattier's Club, though Harrietle had written to him years before." "At 'last Ï found myself in the still quiet room I have before described. It was

entirely deserted, save by one soli tary individual. He was habited which was confined round the waist in a dark brown flowing robe, by a leathern belt, and fell in am ple folds to the ground. His head. was uncovered, and presented a fine model for the painter's art. He was unmasked, nad his bright penetrating eyes seemed earnestly fixed, I could not discover on what."

He remained in this un- (Continued og Page 2)

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