Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Margaret Duchess of Newcastle, as well as less reputable persons, followed the new mode.

By the time of the Restoration Pepys and Evelyn were keeping their diaries, and Fox his journal.

Just as in poetry the lyric, that is the expression of personal feeling, became more widely practised, more subtle and more sincere, in prose the letter, the journal, and the autobiography formed themselves to meet the new and growing demand for analysis of the feelings and the intimate thoughts and sensations of real men and women.

A minor form of literature which had a brief but popular vogue ministered less directly to the same need.

The "Character," a brief descriptive essay on a contemporary type--a tobacco seller, an old college butler or the like--was popular because in its own way it matched the newly awakened taste for realism and fact.