CHAPTER XVIII.
Victor Hugo's Dernier Jour d'un Condamné—Value of Common
Sense—Conscience—Cunning—Curiosity Shops on the Quai
d'Orsay—Expensive and Tasteful Gifts—An Avaricious Vender—A
Moral—Anonymous Scribbler—Weakness of Mind—Poems of Mrs. Hemans—The
Minds of Genius—Poetesses of England—Arrival of Lord D—— —The
Catholic Question carried—Irish prejudices—Letters from Absent
Friends—Sir William Gell—The Archbishop of Tarentum—Discoveries at
Pompeii—Novel of The Disowned—Advantages to be derived from the
Perusal of Works of Fiction—Politics—Charles the Tenth
unpopular—Charles the First—The House of Bourbon—"Uneasy lies the
Head that wears a Crown"—The Duc de T—— —Mr. Hook's Sayings and
Doings—Visit to the Hotel Monaco, 207.