...as the best writer of English alive. So we are getting on in the world. Such things could not have been heard in such saloons when I was here twenty years ago. April 2.—Breakfasted with Sydney Smith , where we had only Hallam and Tytler, the Scotch historian; just a partie carree, of the first sort. The conversation, at one time during the breakfast, was extraordinary. It fell on the influenc...