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THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS Edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews; University of California; 11 volumes; $320
THE ILLUSTRATED PEPYS
The young servant was "mighty pretty," thought Samuel Pepys, and it was not long before his wife "did find me embracing the girl con my hand sub su coats." In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest...
The diarist was not some ignominious hypocrite; he was a high-placed hypocrite. Pepys, a Secretary of the Royal Navy, regularly took bribes, praising God for his increasing riches. On one occasion, when he received an envelope that felt full of money, he artfully opened and emptied it without actually...
"Keep a diary and some day it'll keep you," said that great American philosopher Mae West. But it is the Eng lish who have a unique talent for scribbling to themselves. To the long list that includes Samuel Pepys, James Boswell and Virginia Woolf must now be added...