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The best of it is the Conversations with Northcote, a painter of no very great merit, but a survivor of the Reynolds studio; and these conversations very frequently and very widely diverge from painting into literary and miscellaneous matters. The second class contains the miscellaneous essays proper, and these have by some been put at the head of Hazlitt's work.

Northcote has very temperately and sensibly discussed the question of the nude in art from the standpoint of Christian morality.

Tozer half-dozing in the tranquillity and warmth. "Grandmamma, I have brought Mr. May and Mr. Northcote to see you," she said. The poor old lady almost sprang from her chair in amazement. "Lord bless us, Phoebe, Mr. May!" "Don't disturb yourself, grandmamma; they will find seats.

"If that was my opinion of my own brother, I should take care not to say it, at least." "Oh, Reginald isn't the worst! There's your Mr. Northcote, and there's that Copperhead Woodenhead, we call him in the nursery. Oh, how papa can put up with him, I can't tell! he never had any patience with us. You can't think how dull he is, Mrs. Hurst!

Northcote! it is a new name in Carlingford. I wonder I have not heard of him already; or have you kept him entirely to yourself, and let nobody know that there was a new man in the place?" There was a little pause here. The girls knew nothing about Northcote, except the one fact that he was a Dissenter; but as Mrs.

Northcote? is it as fine as I thought? There now, I told you, grandmamma! Have you been telling Mr. Northcote how you picked it up? I am sure you will present him with a cup and saucer for his collection in return for his praises." "Not for the world," said Northcote, with profound seriousness; "break a set of cream Wedgwood! what do you take me for, Miss Beecham?

Look at that cup, and fancy grandmamma having this old service in use without knowing how valuable it is. Cream Wedgwood! You may fancy how I stared when I saw it; and in everyday use! most people put it up on brackets, when they are so lucky as to possess any. Tell Mr. May, grandmamma, how you picked it up. Mr. Northcote, there is an article in this review that I want you to look at.

As for Horace Northcote, who was not a great talker, it was a not disagreeable shield for his silent contemplation of Ursula, and the little things which from time to time he ventured to say to her.

"Surely," said Phoebe with momentary hesitation, and it was just at this moment that she perceived Ursula on the other side of the road, and, glad of the diversion, waved her hand to her, and said, "How do you do?" "A friend of yours?" said Mr. Northcote, following her gesture with his eyes, and feeling more and more glad that he had met her.

"The charity of our ancestors might have been worse employed," said Reginald. "A home for the old and poor is surely as fine a kind of benevolence as one could think of if benevolence is to be tolerated at all." "Ye-es," said Northcote. "I don't pretend to disapprove of benevolence. Perhaps the young who have a future before them, who can be of use to their country, are better objects still."