ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, No. 3

The poet Cartwright is a remarkable instance of fugitive celebrity. He was esteemed, says Wood, "a fair copy of practic piety, a rare example of heroic worth, and in whom arts, learning, and language made up the true complement of perfection." On the publication of his *Comedies, tragi-comedies, with other poems*, in 1651, they were recommended to the public by more than fifty copies of verses! After all this flourish of trumpets, the volume never reached a second edition. The peculiarities of certain copies of this volume have been described by the learned editor of the *Athenæ Oxonienses*, 1…