As few, in the present age, are acquainted with the ponderous folios to which the age of Louis XIV.

gave rise, we need only say, that they combine the dulness of the metaphysical courtship with all the improbabilities of the ancient Romance of Chivalry.

Their character will be most easily learned from Boileau's Dramatic Satire, or Mrs Lennox's Female Quixote.] Lady Margaret, herself somewhat attached to the perusal of romances, took up the cudgels.

"Monsieur Scuderi," she said, "is a soldier, brother; and, as I have heard, a complete one, and so is the Sieur d'Urfe." "More shame for them; they should have known better what they were writing about.

For my part, I have not read a book these twenty years except my Bible, The Whole Duty of Man, and, of late days, Turner's Pallas Armata, or Treatise on the Ordering of the Pike Exercise, and I don't like his discipline much neither.
[Note: Sir James Turner.