that he apprized the public of the incorrectness of the first printed report of it. I have never seen the Sermon in any form: but Nell's Will contains the appointment of Tenison as the preacher. She bequeathes a pulpit-cloth and cushion to his Church, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; and places at his disposal 1507. for the poor of the parish: fifty pounds of which are for the benefit of those from whom she differed in her religion,the Romanists! She was interred "with great solemnity," at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.-New Monthly, 1838. The fact is, funeral Sermons were fashionable then. One Dignitary saved his conscience in preaching one for a worse character than Nell. He said, she was born well-lived well-and died well; and then preached a sermon on Death. The fact is, the names of the towns in which she lived and died-ended in the syllable well! The Archbishop was not so fortunate as his contemporary. He had to take Nell Gwynn as he found her.

Bunyan said of Badman's children, "They had, like Esau, to join in affinity with Ishmael; to match, live, and die with Hypocrites: the Good would not trust them, because they were bad in their lives; and the Bad would not trust them, because they were good in their words. Their Father did not like them, because they had their Mother's tongue; and their Mother did not like them, because they had their Father's heart and life. and thus they were not fit company for good or bad.”—Works, vol. ii., p. 876.

When Bunyan borrowed a sharp arrow from another man's quiver, he shot it well. "As Luther says, 'In the name of God,' -begins all mischief; for Hypocrites have no other way to bring their evils to maturity, but by mixing the name of God and Religion with them. So Master Cheat stands for a right honest man. Some are arch-villains in this way. They use the white of Religion to hide the dirt of their actions."-Works, vol. ii., p. 900.

"He is 'penny wise and pound foolish,' they say, 'who losetb a good ship for a halfpenny worth of tar:' what then is he who loseth his soul for a little of this world?"-Works, vol. ii., p. 901.

"The Holy War" abounds with sparkling Wit, as well as with profound metaphysics. It is, altogether, "a witty invention," which verifies the proverb, that "Wisdom dwells with Prudence." Mr. Conscience, the Recorder of Mansoul, was "put out of place by Diabolus," Bunyan says, "because he was a seeing man: wherefore he darkened him, not only by taking from him his office, but by building a high and strong Tower between the sun, and the windows of the Recorder's house." Lord Will-be-will also, was, he says, "as high-born, and even more a freeholder than many; having privileges peculiar to himself in Mansoul. Now together with these, he was a man of great strength, resolution, and courage; nor in his occasion could any turn him. A headstrong man he was! He was the first to listen to Diabolus at Eargate, and to welcome him into the town. Diabolus, therefore, made him Keeper of all the Gates, and Governor of the Wall; and then, next to the Devil himself, who but my Lord Will-be-will, in all the town of Mansoul! When this power was put into his hands, he flatly denied that he owed any suit or service to his former Prince. He maligned the Recorder to death, and would shut his eyes when he happened to see him, and his ears when he heard his voice. He could not endure that so much as a fragment of the Laws of SHADDAI should be seen anywhere in all the town. Mr. Mind, his Clerk, had some old parchments of the Law; but Will-be-will cast them behind his back. He also tried to come at some old scraps of the Law, which Mr. Conscience had in his study; but he could not get at them, owing to the windows of the old Lord Mayor's house. These windows, he thought by far too light for the profit of Mansoul. He would also make himself abject amongst any base and rascally crew, to cry up

Diabolus. His Deputy, Mr. Affection, he married to Miss Carnal: 'like to like,' quoth the Devil to the Collier. And when he appointed thirteen men Aldermen for Mansoul, Mr. INCREDULITY was the oldest, and Mr. ATHEISM the youngest. As for the Common Council Men, they were all cousins or nephews of the Aldermen."

It is needless to say that this is wit of the highest order; and the more remarkable, inasmuch as it is struck out from abstract qualities and personified passions. Montgomery says of such impersonations, that there arises from their very constitution "one grand disadvantage;-the reader almost certainly foresees what such typical beings will do, say, or suffer, according to the circumstances in which they are placed." This is only too true of "most of the creatures of imagination, that figure away in formal Allegories."-Essay on the Pilgrim's Progress. Some of Bunyan's impersonations of both Powers and Passions are, however, exceptions to this remark. "The Poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling," may have foreseen all the freaks of Lord Will-be-will, and all the fits of Mr. Conscience, when Diabolus got into Mansoul; but ordinary eyes are agreeably surprised at some of both. Bunyan himself "wondered to see Lord Will-bewill take neither the one side nor the other in the quarrel between Lord Understanding and old Incredulity, when Mr. Prejudice was kicked in the streets, and Mr. Anything had one of his legs broken. His Lordship even smiled to see old Prejudice tumbled up and down in the mud; and took but little notice when Captain Anything came limping up to him. It made me laugh," says Bunyan, "to see how old Mr. Prejudice was kicked and tumbled about by the mob, when they had got him under their feet. He had his crown cracked, to boot, by some of Lord Understanding's party."-Holy War, p. 91.

Bunyan's readers laugh with him, at not a few of the turns of popular feeling in Mansoul, as well as at the caprices of Lord