nd perhaps,
too, she perceived the more sober moral taste of the new generation. "In
the numerous volumes which she gave to the world towards the latter part
of her life," says the "Biographia Dramatica," somewhat hastily, "no
author has appeared more the votary of virtue, nor are there any novels
in which a stricter purity, or a greater delicacy of sentiment, has been
preserved." Without discussing here the comparative decency of Mrs.
Haywood's later novels, we may admit at once, with few allowances for
change of standard, the moral excellence of such works as "The Female
Spectator" and "Epistles for the Ladies." Certainly if the penance paid
by the reader is any test, the novelist was successful in her effort to
atone for the looseness of her early writings, when she left the
province of fiction for that of the periodical essay.

FOOTNOTES
[1]
Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, IV, 4.

[2]
Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, IV, 135, note 3.

[3]
Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, IV, 141.

[4]
Elwin and Courthope 's Pope, IV, 232. Professor Lounsbury has apparently
confused this work with _A Cursory View of the History of Lilliput For
these last forty three Years_, 8vo,1727, a political satire containing
no allusion to Pope. See _The Text of Shakespeare_, 287.

[5]
_Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput_, 16.

[6]
_The Dunciad_. 1728. Book II, lines 137-48, and 170; Book III, lines
149-53.

[7]
Elwin and Courthope 's _Pope_, IV, 282.

[8]
A second engraving by Vertue after Parmentier formed the frontispiece of
_Secret Histories, Novels, and Poems_.

[9]
E. Curll, _Key to the Dunciad_, 12. Some copies apparently read "peer"
for "poet." See Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, IV, 330, note pp.; and Sir
Sidney Lee, article _Haywood_ in the D.N.B.

[10]
Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, IV, 330, note ss.

[11]
Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, IV, 294.

[12]
Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, IV, 232. See also 159, note I.

[13]
T.E. Lounsbury, _The Text of Shakespeare_, 281. "'The Popiad' which
appeared in July, and 'The Female Dunciad' which followed the month
after ... were essentially miscellanies devoted to attacks upon the
poet, and for them authors were not so much responsible as publishers."

[14]
Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, IV, 141, note 5.

[15]
Notes and Queries, Ser. I, X, 110. The words italicized by me refer to
Pope's description of Theobald's library, _The Dunciad_, (1728), Book I,
line 106.

[16]
T. R. Loun