MR. PHILEAS FOGG lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville
Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sher-
idan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable
members of the Reform Club, though he seemed
always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical
personage, about whom little was known, except that
he was a polished man of the world. People said that
he resembled Byron,--at least that his head was
Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who
might live on a thousand years without growing old.

Certainly an Englishman it was more doubtful
whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was
never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the
counting-rooms of the "City;" no ships ever came
into London docks of which he was the owner; he had
no public employment; he had never been entered at

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