CURRENT LITERATURE
$EVERAL of the scholarly papers in this handsOme volume: add to what is known of the diarist. Mr. W. H. Whitear has identified the site of Pepys' birthplace in Salisbury' Court, off Fleet Street. Mr. Norman shows that the Will
Hewer of the diary, the clerk whom Pepys Once had to chastise,' became not merely a high official at the Admiralty and a:
director of the East India Company, but also Pepys' most intimate and loyal friend. Pepys shared Hewer's house by the York Watergate .and died at Hewer's mansion at Clapham... Pepys' nephew and heir, John Jaekson, after being rejected,: on the spore of his comparative poverty, as a suitor for thern hand of Evelyn's grand-daughter, married Hewer's cousin,i and their youngest daughter ultimately inherited the property! of both the diarist and his old associate. Sir Sidney Lee'st discerning study of Pepyi and Shakesjieari is reprinted, ancl. with it the first serious review of the diary, which Sir Walter!
Scott wrote for the Quarterly in 1825-6. Admirable portraits by Kneller of Pepys and Hewer are among the illustrations.
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