. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). esent day ! O Scottish Chiefs, didntwe weep over you! O Mysteries of Udolpho, didnt I andBriggs Minor draw pictures out of you, as I have said . Efforts,feeble indeed, but still giving pleasure to us and our friends.** I say, old Boy, draw us Vivaldi tortured in the Inquisition,or, Draw us Don Quixote and the windmills, you know,amateurs would say, to boys, who had love of drawing. Pe
. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). esent day ! O Scottish Chiefs, didntwe weep over you! O Mysteries of Udolpho, didnt I andBriggs Minor draw pictures out of you, as I have said . Efforts,feeble indeed, but still giving pleasure to us and our friends.** I say, old Boy, draw us Vivaldi tortured in the Inquisition,or, Draw us Don Quixote and the windmills, you know,amateurs would say, to boys, who had love of drawing. Pere-grine Pickle we liked, our fathers admiring it, and telling us(the sly old boys) it was capital fun ; but I think I was ratherbewildered by it, though Roderick Random was and remainsdelightful. I dont remember having Sterne in the schoollibrary, no doubt because the works of that divine were notconsidered decent for young people. Ah ! not against thygenius, O father of Uncle Toby and Trim, would I say a word DE JUVENTUTE. 63 ifn disrespect. But I am thankful to live in times when men nolonger have the temptation to write so as to call blushes onwomens cheeks, and would shame to whisper wicked allusions. to honest boys. Then, above all, we had Walter Scott, thekindl}, the generous, the pure—the companion of what countlessdelightful hours ; and purveyor of how much happiness ; thefriend whom we recall as the constant benefactor of our youth !How well 1 remember the type and the brownish paper of the 64 ROUNDABOUT PACERS. old duodecimo Tales of My Landlord ! I have never daredto read the Pirate, and the Bride of Lammermoor, or Kenihvorth, from that day to this, because the final is un-happy, and people die, and are murdered at the end. But Ivanhoe, and Quentin Durward ! Oh ! for a half-holiday,and a quiet ccrner, and one of those books again ! Thosebooks, and perhaps those eyes with which we read them ; and, itmay be, the brains behind the eyes ! It may be the tart was good ;
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