Recreations Of Great Men

The favorite recreation of Pope's leisure hours was the society of painters. Notliing was more agreeable to the poet than to spend an oceasional evening with his friend Kneller, who, to use the words of Thackeray, "bragged more, spelled worse and painted better than any artist of his day." Warburton tells an amnsing anecdote of the two frienris. Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day when his nephew, a Guinea trader, carne in. Nephew," said Sir Godfrey, "you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world." "I don't know how great you may be," said the Guinea man, "but I don't like your looks. I I have of ten bought a man much better than both of you together, all muscles