...ladies' reading. " It is a very strange and a very low book," commented the Bishop's celebrated niece, " though not without some characters in it, and, I believe,...some very just, though very wretched descriptions." 1 See ' ' The Carter and Talbot Correspondence." "» CHAPTER VII. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CONTINUED....

...author in her own right. Elizabeth Carter (1717—1806), miscellaneous writer, friend of Samuel Johnson. Now I name acting, have you read that strange book...It is a very strange and a very low one, though not \vithout some characters in it. and I believe some o J o very just, though very wretched descriptions....

...Talbot wrote to Elizabeth Carter that she thought Roderick Random "a very strange and a very low" book, though "not without some characters in it, and I believe...some very just, though very wretched descriptions," she no doubt had in mind not only the f1ctionalized real people (David Garrick, Lord Chesterfield,...