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Wyllys, Esq., the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. His deputy, Agar, Milton's brotherin-law, may have been in attendance on such an occasion. During the preceding month or two, at all events, Agar and his subordinates in the Crown Office had been unusually busy with the issue of the writs and with the other work connected with the opening of Parliament. （Vol. II. p. 150.) Mr. Masson's resolute at all events is very amusing. Meanwhile The hungry sheep look up and are not fed. Augustine Thierry has a great deal to answer for, if to him we owe the modern fashion of writing history picturesquely. At least his method leads to most unhappy results when essayed by men to whom nature has denied a sense of what the picturesque really is. The historical picturesque does not consist, in truth of costume and similar accessaries, but in the grouping, attitude, and expression of the figures, caught when they are unconscious that the artist is sketching them. The moment they are posed f