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is not as old as Jeremy Taylor; and, entre nous, the best parts of my friends' books were either written or suggested by myself."

In the Noctes Ambrosianæ, Coleridge gets a contemporary thrust for his conceit and dogmatism, with the conclusion,—

"The author o' Christabel, and The Auncient Mariner, had better just continue to see visions, and to dream dreams—for he's no fit for the wakin' world."

The most direct attack on Southey is in the comment on Mr. Feathernest:

"* * * to whom the Marquis had recently given a place in exchange for his conscience. The poet had, in consequence, burned his old 'Odes to Truth and Liberty,' and published a volume of Panegyrical Addresses 'to all the crowned heads in Europe,' with the motto, 'Whatever is at court, is right.'"

In Disraeli's Ixion, Enceladus has been identified as Wellington, Hyperion as Sir Robert Peel, Jupiter as George the Third, and Apollo as Byron. Byronism indeed is one of the shining marks loved by the nineteenth century, a fact that not only labels the British temper, but illustrates the irony of time's revenges. The last great satirist of the old school himself becomes the prime object of satire for the new, partly through mutual lack of understanding, and partly because Byron, like some other brilliant wits, lacked a real sense of humor. Both these reasons enabled Lytton to flatter himself that his Pelham had "contributed to put an end to the Satanic Mania—to turn the thoughts and ambitions of young gentlemen without neckcloths, and