THE WITS AND BEAUX OF SOCIETY BY GRACE AND PHILIP WHARTON EDITED BY JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY, M. P. _And the original illustrations by_ H. K. BROWNE AND JAMES GODWIN TWO VOLS.--VOL. II. 1890 CONTENTS VOL. II. HORACE WALPOLE. The Commoners of England.--Horace's Regret for the Death of his Mother.-- Little Horace in Arlington Street.--Introduced to George I.-- Characteristic Anecdote of George I.--Walpole's Education.--Schoolboy Days.-- Boyish Friendships.--Companionship of Gray.--A Dreary Doom.-- Walpole's Description of Youthful Delights.--Anecdote of Pope and Frederic of Wales.--The Pomfrets.--Sir Thomas Robinson's Ball.--An Admirable Scene.--Political Squibs.--Sir Robert's Retirement from Office.--The Splendid Mansion of Houghton.--Sir Robert's Love of Gardening.--What we owe to the 'Grandes Tours.'--George Vertue.--Men of One Idea.--The Noble Picture-gallery at Houghton.--The 'Market Pieces.'-- Sir Robert's Death.--The Granville Faction.--A very good Quarrel.-- Twickenham.-- Strawberry Hill.--The Recluse of Strawberry.--Portraits of the Digby Family.--Sacrilege.--Mrs. Darner's Models.--The Long Gallery at Strawberry.-- The Chapel.--'A Dirty Little Thing.'--The Society around Strawberry Hill.--Anne Seymour Conway.--A Man who never Doubted.--Lady Sophia Fermer's Marriage.--Horace in Favour.--Anecdote of Sir William Stanhope.--A Paper House.--Walpole's Habits.--Why did he not Marry?-- 'Dowagers as Plenty as Flounders.'--Catherine Hyde, Duchess of Queensberry.--Anecdote of Lady Granville.--Kitty Clive.--Death of Horatio Walpole.--George, third Earl of Orford.--A Visit to Houghton.--Family Misfortunes.--Poor Chatterton.--Walpole's Concern with Chatterton.-- Walpole in Paris.--Anecdote of Madame Geoffrin.--'Who's that Mr. Walpole?'-- The Miss Berrys.--Horace's two 'Straw Berries.'--Tapping a New Reign.--The Sign of the Gothic Castle.--Growing Old with Dignity.-- Succession to an Earldom.--Walpole's Last Hours.--Let us not be Ungrateful. GEORGE SELWYN. A Love of Horrors.--Anecdotes of Selwyn's Mother.--Selwyn's College Days.--Orator Henley.--Selwyn's Blasphemous Freak.--The Profession of a Wit.--The Thirst for Hazard.--Reynolds's Conversation-Piece.--Selwyn's Eccentricities and Witticisms.--A most Important Communication.--An Amateur Headsman.--The Eloquence of Indifference.--Catching a Housebreaker.--The Family of the Selwyns.--The Man of the People.-- Selwyn's Parliamentary Career.--True Wit.--Some of Selwyn's Witty Sayings.--The Sovereignty of the People.--On two kinds of Wit.--Selwyn's Home for Children.--Mie-Mie, the Little Italian.--Selwyn's Little Companion taken from him.--His Later Days and Death. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.