Estimate of Pope.

Other Writers.
Alexander Pope is at once one of the greatest names in English literature and one of the most remarkable illustrations of the fact that the literature is the interpreter of English history.

He was also a man of singular individuality, and may, in some respects, be considered a _lusus naturae_ among the literary men of his day.
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY .-- He was born in London on the 21st of May, 1688, the year which witnessed the second and final expulsion of the Stuarts, in direct line, and the accession of a younger branch in the persons of Mary and her husband, William of Orange.

Pope comes upon the literary scene with the new order of political affairs.

A dynasty had been overthrown, and the power of the parliament had been established; new charters of right had secured the people from kingly oppression; but there was still a strong element of opposition and sedition in the Jacobite party, which had by no means abandoned the hope of restoring the former rule.