NOTICE OF NIMROD. 



"DOS WELL could never have written the " Life of 

 Johnson" but for the long intimacy he had en- 

 joyed with his hero ; and the same might be said of 

 Nimrod and his " Life of John Mytton." But the 

 parallel can be continued no further. Boswell me- 

 thodically prepared himself for his work from his first 

 interview with the subject of it, whereas Nimrod and 

 Mr. Mytton lived for years on terms of friendship 

 without the least probability of one ever becoming the 

 biographer of the other. In the common course of 

 events, indeed, the Halston Squire, as much the 

 younger man, should have outlived his companion ; 

 while it was only at a comparatively late period in his 

 career that Mr. Apperley ever engaged himself upon 

 literary pursuits. 



No man however, could have been more thoroughly 



