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Rh accessible. She has a good chapter on the Church of England, according to her lights, and dwells especially on the Via Media. "Though her worship be wisely popular, it is also deeply spiritual; though simple, it is sublime." She did not, however, presume to enter upon advice as to the personal management of the young Princess, going rather into intellectual matters, excepting in one chapter on the perils of flattery to sovereigns.

On the whole it may be feared that these hints proved about as useful to poor Princess Charlotte as Bossuet's works, "In usum Delphini," to the Grand Dauphin; but the loyal Hannah remained in happy ignorance of how father, mother, and grandmother contended over the high-spirited girl, who meanwhile, under Lady Albemarle's easy rule, laughed at Bishop Fisher, and ran wild with George Keppel.

Hannah and Patty were together at Fulham Palace when the book appeared. It was presented by Bishop Fisher to the royal parents and grandparents, when the Queen certainly read it through and was much delighted with it; and altogether it attracted much attention and approval. The Anti-Jacobin even praised it highly, and this perhaps incited the Edinburgh Review, then in its mordant eager youth, to cut it up, objecting to female learning, and to the preference for Rollin's history to Gibbon's, which after all does not occupy the same field. Those two