=71=: 3. =Looking into the books=, etc. The humour consists largely, of course, in the odd miscellany of books suited "to the lady and the scholar." =71=: 9. =Ogilby's Virgil=, the first complete translation of Virgil, 1649. =71=: 10. =Dryden's Juvenal=, 1693. =71=: 11, 12, 13. =Cassandra=, =Cleopatra=, and =Astraea= were translations of long-winded, sentimental French romances, the first two by La Calprenède, the third by Honoré D'Urfé. =71=: 15. =The Grand Cyrus= and =Clelia= were even more famous romances, by Mademoiselle de Scudéry, each in ten volumes. For delightful satire upon the taste for this sort of reading, see Steele's comedy, _The Tender Husband_; the heroine, Miss Biddy Tipkin, has been nourished upon this delicate literature. =71=: 17. =Pembroke's Arcadia.= Written in 1580-1581, by Sir Philip Sidney, but published, after his death, by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. It is the best of the Elizabethan prose romances. =71=: 18. =Locke.= John Locke's _Essay on the Human Understanding_, an epoch-making work in philosophy, published in 1690. Locke was one of the authors Leonora had "heard praised," and may have "seen"; but she evidently found better use for his book than to read it. The "patches" were bits of black silk or paper, cut in a variety of forms, which ladies stuck upon their faces, presumably to set off their complexions. See _Spectator_, No. 81. Notice the pun in this use of Locke. =71=: 22. =Sherlock.= William Sherlock (1641-1707), dean of St. Paul's. =71=: 23. =The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony=, a translation of a French book of the fifteenth century, _Quinze Joies de Mariage_. =71=: 24. =Sir William Temple's Essays=, published 1692. =71=: 25. =Malebranche's Search after Truth= had been translated from the French not long before. =72=: 1. =The Ladies' Calling=, a popular religious book, anonymous, but ascribed to the unknown author of the most widely circulated religious book of the seventeenth century, _The Whole Duty of Man_. =72=: 2. =Mr. D'Urfey.= Thomas D'Urfey (1650-1720), a playwright and humorous verse writer. His poetical writings were collected, 1720, under the title, _Pills to purge Melancholy_. In 1704 he published _Tales, Tragical and Comical_, which is probably the book here referred to. =72=: 6. =Clelia.= See note on 71: 15. =72=: 8. =Baker's Chronicle.= _Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle_ of the kings of England, 1634. Sir Roger was very familiar with this dull book. See _Spectator_, No. 329, XXVIII of this volume. =72=: 9. =Advice to a Daughter.= By George Saville, Marquis of Halifax. =72=: 10. =The New Atalantis.= By Mrs. Manley, who had an unsavoury reputation in London journalism during the reign of Anne. This was a scandalous romance, attacking prominent persons, especially of the Whig party, under feigned names. =72=: 11. =Mr. Steele's Christian Hero.= See Introduction.