Chapter XVIII
Reading edition
Victor Hugo's Dernier Jour d'un Condamné—Value of Common Sense—Conscience—Cunning—Curiosity Shops on the Quai d'Orsay—Expensive and Tasteful Gifts—An Avaricious Vender—A Moral—Anonymous Scribbler—Weakness of Mind—Poems of Mrs. Hemans—The Minds of Genius—Poetesses of England—Arrival of Lord D—— —The Catholic Question carried—Irish prejudices—Letters from Absent Friends—Sir William Gell—The Archbishop of Tarentum—Discoveries at Pompeii—Novel of The Disowned—Advantages to be derived from the Perusal of Works of Fiction—Politics—Charles the Tenth unpopular—Charles the First—The House of Bourbon—"Uneasy lies the Head that wears a Crown"—The Duc de T—— —Mr. Hook's Sayings and Doings—Visit to the Hotel Monaco, 207.