Le cyclopedia of English littérature : une histoire critique et biographique des auteurs dans la langue anglaise de la première fois jusqu'à la journée actuelle, avec des spécimens de leur écriture . a trouvé la vie là souncongénaire qu'il est retourné en juillet de la nextannée. Les hommes de Queens étaient des pédalos, des peignes de cox et des étrangers : Si mal à l'aise était-il thathe pourrait dire, Cet endroit n'a pas de charmes latents, et 86 Francis Jeffrey de nouveau, Sauf prier et boire je vois nothingelse qu'il est possible d'acquérir dans cet endroit.Lord Holland l'a drastiquement mis au crédit de son shortsojourn là qu'il

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Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . found the life there souncongenial that he returned in July of the nextyear. The men at Queens were pedants, cox-combs, and strangers : so ill at ease was he thathe could say, This place has no latent charms, and 86 Francis Jeffrey again, Except praying and drinking I see nothingelse that it is possible to acquire in this place.Lord Holland drly put it to the credit of his shortsojourn there that he had lost the broad Scotchand had gained only the narrow English. Hiscorrespondence shows that he had been disturbedby the ambition to become a poet. On his finalreturn to Edinburgh he studied law at the uni-versity, and joined, in December 1792, the Specu-lative Society, of which Scott, Francis Horner, Brougham, -and other friends of later life were activemembers. He was called to the Bar in December1794; but his prospects were poor, and he eked outhis miserable income by occasional contributionsto the Monthly Review. In November 1801, whenhis practice was worth but one hundred pounds per. FRANCIS JEFFREY. After the Portrait by Colvin Smith. annum, he married Catherine Wilson (who died in1805), and established himself on the third floor ofNo. 18 Buccleuch Place. In these lofty rooms—not in the eighth or ninth storey, if SydneySmiths historic phrase be taken literally—Jeffreyand his friends founded The Edinburgh Re7neiu^or Critical Jotirnal. The project was Smiths, andthe preliminary work, including the editing of thefirst number (loth October 1802), was also his ;but Jeffrey assumed responsibility with the secondnumber, and continued as editor and regular con-tributor till 1829, when he retired on his appoint-ment as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. From1803 onwards his time was absorbed by the Review, by his improving practice at the Bar, and by theFriday Club, which Scott

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