The writings of people of high fashion, also, have a value set on them far higher than that which intrinsically belongs to them.

The verses of the late Duchess of Devonshire, or an occasional prologue by Lord Alvanley, attract a most undue share of attention.

If the present Duke of Devonshire, who is the very "glass of fashion and mould of form," were to publish a book with two good pages, it would be extolled as a masterpiece in half the drawing-rooms of London.

Now Chesterfield was, what no person in our time has been or can be, a great political leader, and at the same time the acknowledged chief of the fashionable world; at the head of the House of Lords, and at the head of laze; Mr.Canning and the Duke of Devonshire in one.

In our time the division of labour is carried so far that such a man could not exist.