Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 46: November 1831, and January 1832 Nor were his talents inconsiderable. He had looked a good deal into books, and more into the world. The narrative portion of his works is written with good sense, in an easy and perspicuous style, and without (which seems odd enough) any palpable imitation of Johnson. But in recording conversations he is unrivalled that he was eminently accurate in substance, we have the evidence of all his contemporaries but he is also in a high degree characteristic dramatic. The incidental obsor vations with which he explains or enlivens the dialogue, are terse, appro priate, and picturesque we not merely hear his company, we see tlieiii!' Preface, p. Xxvii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.