Gally, then, is not as Theophrastan as he professes to be. True, he harks back to Theophrastus in matters of style and technique. And he does not criticize him, as does La Bruyère,[6] for paying too much attention to a man's external actions, and not enough to his "Thoughts, Sentiments, and Inclinations." Nevertheless his mind is receptive to the kind of individuated characterization soon to distinguish the mid-eighteenth century novel. The type is still his measuring-stick, but he calibrates it far less rigidly than a Rymer analyzing Iago or Evadne. A man can be A Flatterer or A Blunt Man and still retain a private identity: this private identity Gally recognizes as important. Gally's essay thus reflects fundamental changes in the English attitude toward human nature and its literary representation. Alexander H. Chorney Fellow, Clark Library Los Angeles, California Notes to the Introduction 1. _The Characters, Or The Manners of the Age. By Monsieur De La Bruyère of the French Academy. Made English by several hands. With the Characters of Theophrastus..._ 1699. 2 vols. 2. Isaac Casaubon's Latin edition of Theophrastus appeared in 1592 and was reprinted frequently during the seventeenth century. 3. Eustace Budgell, _The Moral Characters of Theophrastus_ (1714), Preface, sig. a5. 4. _Ibid._, sig. a6 verso. 5. For a full account of the shift in attitude see Edward Miles Hooker, "Humour in the Age of Pope," _Huntington Library Quarterly_, XL (1948), 361-385. 6. "A Prefatory Discourse concerning Theophrastus," in _The Characters, Or The Manners of the Age_, II, xxii. * * * * * The Moral Characters of THEOPHRASTUS. Translated from The Greek, with Notes. To which is prefix’d A CRITICAL ESSAY on Characteristic-Writings. By Henry Gally, M.A. Lecturer of St. Paul’s Covent-Garden, and Rector of Wanden in Buckinghamshire. Respicere exemplar vitæ morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem, & vivas hinc ducere voces. Hor. in Art. Poet. LONDON: Printed for John Hooke, at the _Flower- de-luce_ over-against St. _Dunstan’s_ Church in _Fleet-street_. MDCCXXV. * * * * * THE PREFACE.