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s premier coup d'oeil by impertinent details of what we must call the pseudo-dramatic kind. For example, does Hall profess to have traced Milton from the University to a suburb sink of London? Mr. Masson fancies he hears Milton saying to himself, A suburb sink! has Hall or his son taken the trouble to walk all the way down to Aldersgate here, to peep up the entry where I live, and so have an exact notion of my whereabouts? There has been plague in the neighborhood certainly; and I hope Jane Yates had my doorstep tidy for the visit. Does Milton, answering Hall's innuendo that he was courting the graces of a rich widow, tell us that he would rather choose a virgin of mean fortunes honestly bred Mr. Masson forthwith breaks forth in a paroxysm of what we suppose to be picturesqueness in this wise: What have we here? Surely nothing less, if we choose so to construe it, than a marriage advertisement! Ho, all ye virgins of England (widows need not apply), here is an opportunity such a