46 DE FOR’S LATEST WORKS.

dustry and extraordinary spirit, dealt with things human and divine in a
variety of manuals, treatises, and essays.

Among these it is especially desirable we should notice a rhymed transla-
tion of Du Fresnoy’s “ Compleat Art of Painting,” published in 1720; “ Re-
gious Courtship : being Historical Discourses on the Necessity of Marrying
Religions Husbands and Wives only,” 1722; “The Life and Actions of
Lewis Dominique Cartouche,” a notorious French desperado, 1722;* ‘An
Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Peter Alexowitz, Czar of Mus-
covy,” 1723;* “The Highland Rogue, or the Memorable Actions of the
Celebrated Robert Macgregor; commonly called Rob Roy,” 1728;* “A
Tour Thro’ the whole Island of Great Britain "—a book full of lively ob-
servation and accurate description, the result of journeys undertaken by the
author in 1724-1726 ; “A New Voyage Round the World,” 1725; ‘ The
Compleat English Tradesman,” 2 vols., 1725-1727—an excellent manual,
containing many shrowd reflections, and much yaluable counsel for the
young beginner; The Political History of the Devil,’ 1726; “A System
af Magick; or, a History of the Black Art,” 1726: “The Secrets of the
Invisible World Disclosed ; or, an Universal History of Apparitions, Sacred
and Profane, under all Denominations,” 1728; “ A New Family Instructor:
in Familiar Discourses between a Father and his Children, on the most
Essential Points of the Christian Religion ’—a book whose every page is
illustrative of De Foe's manly and unaffected religious sentiments; and
“The Compleat English Gentleman ’’—a tractate on education, which, like
everything that De Foe wrote, is instinct with good sense, and which, with
the exception of a small pamphlet on “Street Robberies,” terminated his long
and multifarious literary Jabours.

Of his industry the reader may judge from the fact that a complete list of
his works enumerates no less than 254; of his versatility, the varied sub-
Jects of those to which we have more particularly alluded is a satisfactory
proof,

On the whole, De Foe's career was a successful one. He met with great
trials, but he had also great rewards. It is true that he was twice bankrupt,
but his first misfortune was due to his own imprudence in attempting to
combine the politician with the man of business. His second was owing to
the severe sentence passed upon him at the instigation of a vindictive
Government; but then, it must be acknowledged, that he had provoked its
wrath hy a satire of more than ordinary bitterness. He elected to plunge
into the stormy sea of politics, and if ho occasionally met with a terrible
buffeting, he did but pay the penalty of his deliberate choice. In many of
his views he was in advance of his age, and, accordingly, he was not always
popular: but a man who enjoyed the confidence of King William and Queen
Anne, of Harley and Godolphin, of Sunderland and ‘Yownshend; whose

* These are ascribed to De Foe by Mr. Lee.
t Including those recently attributed to him by Mr. Lee.