Reflections on literature. current and classic.
If we want to Imagine what the London mob of 1680 was like, we have only to think of the modern streets of Belfast.' The writer Julian Mitchell has been reading The Memoirs of Monmouthshire, a Polemical essay by NATIIAN ROGERS published in 1708, and finds that the Politiclal intrigues and religious rivalries of Rogers' day have ' a horriblv modern ring about them. I Repeat)