Her Artamene, or the Great Cyrus, and principally her Clelia, are representations of what then passed at the court of France. The _Map_ of the _Kingdom of Tenderness_, in Clelia, appeared, at the time, as one of the happiest inventions. This once celebrated _map_ is an allegory which distinguishes the different kinds of TENDERNESS, which are reduced to _Esteem_, _Gratitude_, and _Inclination_. The map represents three rivers, which have these three names, and on which are situated three towns called Tenderness: Tenderness on _Inclination_; Tenderness on _Esteem_; and Tenderness on _Gratitude_. _Pleasing Attentions_, or, _Petits Soins_, is a _village_ very beautifully situated. Mademoiselle de Scudery was extremely proud of this little allegorical map; and had a terrible controversy with another writer about its originality. GEORGE SCUDERY, her brother, and inferior in genius, had a striking singularity of character:--he was one of the most complete votaries to the universal divinity, Vanity. With a heated imagination, entirely destitute of judgment, his military character was continually exhibiting itself by that peaceful instrument the pen, so that he exhibits a most amusing contrast of ardent feelings in a cool situation; not liberally endowed with genius, but abounding with its semblance in the fire of eccentric gasconade; no man has portrayed his own character with a bolder colouring than himself, in his numerous prefaces and addresses; surrounded by a thousand self-illusions of the most sublime class, everything that related to himself had an Homeric grandeur of conception. In an epistle to the Duke of Montmorency, Scudery says, "I will learn to write with my left hand, that my right hand may more nobly be devoted to your service;" and alluding to his pen (_plume_), declares "he comes from a family who never used one, but to stick in their hats." When he solicits small favours from the great, he assures them "that princes must not think him importunate, and that his writings are merely inspired by his own individual interest; no! (he exclaims) I am studious only of your glory, while I am careless of my own fortune." And indeed, to do him justice, he acted up to these romantic feelings. After he had published his epic of Alaric, Christina of Sweden proposed to honour him with a chain of gold of the value of five hundred pounds, provided he would expunge from his epic the eulogiums he bestowed on the Count of Gardie, whom she had disgraced. The epical soul of Scudery magnanimously scorned the bribe, and replied, that "If the chain of gold should be as weighty as that chain mentioned in the history of the Incas, I will never destroy any altar on which I have sacrificed!"