THE COMEDY OF MANNERS WILLIAM CONGREVE. FromapaintingbySirGodfreyKnellerintheNationalPortraitGallery. THE COMEDY OF MANNERS BY PALMER JOHN SOME TIME SCHOLAR OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD Your judge-wit or critic . . . He rails at all the other classes of wits, and his wit lies in damning all but himself: he is your true wit. LONDON G. BELL & SONS, LTD. 1913 PR 6<?/ P3 P PRINTED BYWILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED LONDON AND BECCLES