There is something more in a play, _The Fair Quaker of Deal_, by Charles Shadwell, nephew or son of Dryden's victim, but this was only of third or fourth rate literary value, and an isolated example to boot.

The causes of the neglect have been set forth by many writers from Macaulay downwards, and need not be discussed here; the fact is certain.

Smollett's employment of "the service" as a subject may have been, consciously and intentionally, only one of those utilisings of personal experience of which we have spoken.

But really it was an instance of the great fact that the novelist, on the instigation mainly of Fielding himself, was beginning to take all actual life to be his province.
Smollett brought to his work peculiar powers, the chief of which was a very remarkable one, and almost as much "improved on" Fielding as Fielding's exercise of it was improved on Richardson--that of providing his characters and scenes with accessories.

Roderick is not only a much more disagreeable person than Tom, but he is much _less_ of a person: and Strap, though (_vice versa_) rather a better fellow than Partridge, is a much fainter and more washed-out character.