And there is the setting of interior and exterior "furniture" which has been also referred to.

Abundant as is the information which the eighteenth century has given us as to its justly beloved place of pilgrimage, Bath, there is nothing livelier than the Bath scenes here, from Chesterfield to Miss Austen, and few things, if any, so vivid and detailed.

So it is with Clifton earlier, with London later, with Scotland last of all, and with the journeys connecting them.

Yet these things are mere _hors d'oeuvre_, pickles, sauces, condiments, beside the solid character-food of the Brambles and Melfords, of Winifred Jenkins and of the redoubtable Lismahago.

That there is no exaggeration or caricature cannot, of course, be said.