[Something was said in _Punch_ last week about the advantage to the
reminiscencer of being his (or her) own JOHNSON and BOSWELL too. Mrs.
ASQUITH'S recent adventures with the descendants of some of her late
friends, of whose fair fame they are not less jealous than she, suggest
certain of the pitfalls incident to this double _rôle_, particularly
when the autobiographer is remote from his (or her) journals. Since
however an inaccuracy always has a day's start and is never completely
overtaken, while in course of time the pursuit ceases altogether, the
greatest danger is not immediate but for the future. Let us imagine a
case.]