Life in the Eighteenth Century.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 18, 1 November 1911, Page 54

Life in the Eighteenth Century.

The placid and artistic tastes of the late Earl of Carlisle find a vivid contrast in a picture drawn by one of his predecessors in the title. He wrote to George Selwyn comparing the life of the mav about town in the eighteenth century with the pleasant- simplicity of a summer at Castle Howard. "I rise at six,” he writes, “am on horseback till breakfast, play at cricket till dinner, and dance in the evening till I can scarce crawl to bed at eleven. You get up at nine, sit till twelve in your nightgown, creep down to White’s and spend five 'hours at table, sleep till you can escape your supper reckoning, and then make two wretches carry you in a chair, with three pints of claret in you, ’tirce miles for a shilling.” Certainly Lord Carlisle was well qualified to speak of town life, for residence, at Castle Howard was endurable to him only because ne could “eat his own venison, barn his owii firewood, and save in the course of two years enough to repair the disasters of a single ruinous evening at ptay.”