personage: the aristocracy of the present day rank among his immediate
descendants: he is a creature of a modern and an artificial age; and
with his career are mingled many features of civilized life, manners,
habits, and traces of family history which are still, it is believed,
interesting to the majority of English readers, as they have long been
to

GRACE and PHILIP WHARTON

_October, 1860_.

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THE WITS AND BEAUX OF SOCIETY.




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GEORGE VILLIERS, SECOND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

Signs of the Restoration.--Samuel Pepys in his Glory.--A Royal
Company.--Pepys 'ready to Weep.'--The Playmate of Charles