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 with herself; and her connexion with his establishment was carried on for forty years."

In 1782, Hannah More's "Sacred Dramas" were published, with a poem, entitled "Sensibility."

"All her works," says Chambers, in his "Cyclopaedia of English Literature," "were successful, and Johnson said he thought her the best of female versifiers. The poetry of Hannah More is now forgotten, but 'Percy' is a good play, and it is clear that the authoress might have excelled as a dramatic writer, had she devoted herself to that difficult species of composition. In 1786, she published another volume of verse, 'Florio, a Tale for Fine Gentlemen and Fine Ladies,' and 'The Bas Bleu, or Conversation.' The latter, which Johnson complimented as a great performance, was an elaborate eulogy on the Bas Bleu Club, a literary assembly that met at Mrs. Montagu's."

Hannah More's first prose publication was " Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society]," produced in 1788. This was followed, in 1791, by an "Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World." As a means of counteracting the political tracts and exertions of the Jacobins and levellers, Hannah More, in 1794, wrote a number of tales, published monthly, under the title of "The Cheap Repository," which attained to a sale of about a million each number. Some of the little stories (as the "Shepherd of Salisbury Plain,") are well told, and contain striking moral and religious lessons. With the same object, our authoress published a volume called "[[Village Politics." Her other principal works are—"Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education," 1799; "Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess," 1805; "Cœlebs in Search of a Wife, comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals," two volumes, 1809; "Practical Piety, or the Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of Life," two volumes, 1811; "Christian Morals," two volumes, 1812; "Essay on the Character and Writings of St. Paul," two volumes, 1815; and "Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic, with Reflections on Prayer, " 1819. The collection of her works is comprised in eleven volumes octavo. The work entitled "Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess," was written with a view to the education of the Princess Charlotte, on which subject the advice and assistance of Hannah More had been requested by Queen Charlotte, Of "Cœlebs," we are told that ten editions were sold in one year-—a remarkable proof of the popularity of the work. The tale is admirably written, with a fine vein of delicate irony and sarcasm, and some of the characters are well depicted, but, from the nature of the story, it presents few incidents or embellishments to attract ordinary novel-readers. It has not inaptly been styled "a dramatic sermon." Of the other publications of the authoress, we may say, with one of her critics, "it would be idle in us to dwell on works so well known as the "Thoughts on the Manners of the Great," the "Essay on the Religion of the Fashionable World," and so on, which finally established Miss More's name as a great moral writer, possessing a masterly command over the resources of our language, and devoting a keen wit and lively fancy to the best and noblest of purposes. In her latter days there was perhaps a tincture of unnecessary gloom or severity in