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It seems, said Horace Walpole, speaking of Burnet and his istoryiof My Own Times, as if he had just come from the King sset or from the apartments of the men whom he describes, and telling his readers, in plain honest terms, what he had seen and trd. lo plain and honest, indeed, and so free-spoken, was Bishop Let schronicle, that, realizing its certain effect on his contemiries, he arranged that it should not be published for six years rhis death. e died in 1715 ;and it was not actually published till 1723, eight irs afterwards. It led to a great outcry, in which the voice of 1ft was heard, with a Jacobite chorus sustaining the burden, is Secret History, said Swift, is generally made up of coffeeise scandals his vanity runs intolerably through the whole tk. ... He is the most partial of all writers that ever pretended much to impartiality. Pope, too, derided Burnet segotistic le in his Memoirs of P. P., Clerk of this Parish. But the lemence of the criticism is the measure of the life and lifelikeof the work. For the latter half of the seventeenth and opening of the eighteenth century, the History is a familiar ror of the clearest kind, though no doubt the medium has here there a deflecting warp or flaw. Gilbert Burnet was bom in jlnburgh in 1643, Episcopalian father and a Pres:rian mother. He was a great and eloquent preacher; was acher of the Roll s Chapel, and Lecturer of St. Clement s, until was inhibited by Charles II., after Burnet had attended Lord lliam Russell to the scaffold, and written his significant record lat event. He became Bishop of Salisbury on his return to fland in 1688-9, after his exile at the Hague. His History le Reformation is the other work by which he is best lembered to-day. Che following is a complete list of his published works :K scourse on Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun, 1665 ;A Modest and Free iference between a Conformist an
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