Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 / A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Minstrel of the Border, Sir W. Scott; also called “The Border Minstrel” (1771-1832).

My steps the Border Minstrel led.
Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited.

Great Minstrel of the Border.
Wordsworth.

Minstrel of the English Stage (The Last), James Shirley, last of the Shakespeare school (1594-1666).

^*_*^* Then followed the licentious French school, headed by John Dryden.

Minstrels (Royal Domestic).

Of William I., Berdie, called Regis Jocula´tor.

Of Henry I., Galfrid and Royer, or Raher.

Of Richard I., Blondel.

Mint Julep, a Virginian beverage, celebrated in song by Charles Fenno Hoffman (185-). A favorite variety of this drink is compounded of brandy, water, sugar, mint-leaves and pounded ice, and is called a “hail-storm.”