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analogous, cf. "Vidimus camelos quos ob nimiam velocitatem dromedarios vocant," Jerome, end of fourth cent. Other references might be given, and plainly the animal was known to be swift. Even if such evidence was not absolutely clear, where is authority for such a form as W. T. M. requires, or for a metathesis of o and r in derivatives of dormire? The English dromedary is as old as the Promptorium Parvulorum: "Dromedary, beste, Dromedarius, dromedus." Where is the room for inferences from the sleepy look of the animal? O. W. TANCOCK.

KNOX AND WELSH FAMILIES (5th S. vi. 427.)(2.) Faudonside, now known as Faldonside, is distant from Selkirk about five miles N.E. Permit me to add, by way of giving a little interest to so brief a reply to HERMENTRUDE, that in the neighbourhood of Faldonside is

"Cauldshiel's dark, unfathomed lake,"

a mountain tarn about one mile in circumference, which forms the southern boundary to the property of Abbotsford. Reposing upon its northern bank, Walter Scott, in 1817, wrote the pathetic lines commencing

"The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill,

In Ettrick's vale, is sinking sweet." This loch is the source of the rivulet that forms the romantic dell called Rhymer's Glen, one of Scott's favourite retreats, between which and "fair Melrose" stand the country houses of Huntlyburn and Chiefswood, both well known to readers of Lockhart's admirable biography of the poet.

J. MANUEL.

ST. ALKELD (5th S. vi. 449.) In the east window of the south aisle of the church of Middleham, in Wensleydale, there used to be depicted, in ancient stained glass, St. Alkelda undergoing martyrdom by strangulation with a napkin. To her, Middleham Church was dedicated. On my last visit to Middleham, in the summer of 1874, this had been removed, in order that the window might be filled with modern stained glass, and I heard that it was preserved at a house in the town-it is to be hoped with care, as it was an invaluable relic of the past.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

"I fear," wrote the venerable and learned F. C. H. to " N. & Q.," Oct. 23, 1869, "there is no hope of recovering any particulars of the life or martyrdom of this saint. Her festival is on the 28th of March." See 4th S. iv. 297, 349, 420; V. 52; xi. 280. J. MANUEL.

Scandinavian family of languages; but the word Autumn has been borrowed from the Latin."

The Scandinavians, however, do not use the word "autumn," as they possess, unlike ourselves, two native words for that season,-höst (connected with the German herbst, autumn, and our word harvest) and efteraar (the after-year). Connected with the word höst is the verb hoste, to reap or harvest. NICOLAI C. SCHON, Jun. Chorlton-cum-Hardy.

"LA COQUETTE CORRIGÉE" (5th S. vi. 349, 376.)-The author is Jean Sauvé (dit La Noue, or De la Noue), not Jean Louvé. See Michaud, Biographie Universelle; Brunet, Manuel du Libraire; Nouvelle Biographie Universelle de Didot, &c. W. F. P., who, 5th S. vi. 347, speaks so severely of "the astounding propensity to blundering common to French writers in dealing with English proper names," will see by this error that Englishmen also are apt-I will not say to blunder, for that is French proper names. a harsh word, but to make mistakes in quoting of the Channel we are perfectly on a par in this The truth is, on both sides respect, and curious examples of English (as well as French) misquotation are not wanting. I will here cite two, which just now occur to me, and odd to read of "the famous French poet Monseur may amuse the readers of "N. & Q." Is it not Moleiro," and to be informed that among the works of George Sand is a novel entitled La Mère du Diable? The first is from the Roscius Anglicanus of Downes, London, 1708, p. 28, and the second from an article on George Sand, published last year in the Graphic, very soon after her death. Moleiro is, of course, Molière, and George Sand's novel is La Mare au Diable, which is somewhat different from La Mère du Diable.

To return to La Noue, MIDDLE TEMPLAR will find a long and interesting criticism of his comedy in La Harpe, Cours de Littérature Ancienne et Moderne, Paris, 1826, vol. xiii. pp. 344-53. In the same volume, pp. 188-90, La Harpe also speaks of a tragedy by the same author, Mahome Second, which seems to have been better than his Coquette Corrigée. In Voltaire's Correspondence there is one letter, at least, addressed to La Noue. A. BELJAME.

Paris.

"FACCIOLATI ET FORCELLINI LEXICON" (5th S. vi. 107, 214, 298, 332.)-Not having had any opportunity of seeing the editions enumerated by MR. NORGATE, I, of course, cannot question his accuracy. Unhappily, the friend on whose information I relied, and whose intimacy I had enjoyed for over sixty years, departed this life last July 13, SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY (5th S. vi. 503.)—in his seventy-eighth year. I now write merely to DR. BREWER makes the following assertion :- record the name of a very learned, respected, "The Scandinavians . . . had no word for Autumn.and estimable gentleman, who, I have no doubt, Spring, Summer, and Winter are common to the will be better known and appreciated hereafter

IDONEA.

"MAN-A-LOST" (5th S. i. 385, 433, 490; ii. 218.)-A Cornish version of this story will be found in Hunt's Popular Romances of the West of England, Second Series, p. 104, under the title of "How Mr. Lenine gave up Courting."

than he was during his life as a scholar and critic. years, the latter seventy-five years; they were James Henry, A.M., M.D., devoted the last thirty-never separated for one single day, and died three years of his life to the study of Virgil and within six weeks of one another. the preparation of an elaborate commentary on the Eneid. He printed, at Leipzig, the first section of it, and gave away all the copies to libraries, learned societies, and private friends. He spent many years in visiting all the great libraries in Italy, Germany, and France, to collate MSS. and editions of his favourite poet. He left the remainder of his work ready for the press, with instructions and means for its being printed and circulated by his executors. He has been quoted with honour by the late Prof. Conington.

S. T. P.

“TO CATCH A CRAB" (5th S. vi. 203, 272, 524.) -I suppose names and things have altered in the rowing world of late years, or "to catch a crab" has two different meanings at London and Cambridge. JABEZ says, at the last reference, "to catch a crab" in rowing is "to catch the water when it ought to be cleared." I can only say, as an old London oarsman, that exactly the reverse has always been understood on the Thames, certainly about London.

"To catch a crab" is to miss the water in the stroke, and fall backwards over the thwarts, probably with the heels in the air, an exploit that may frequently be seen performed at the commencement of the rowing season. I never could quite see the origin of the slang phrase, though many surmises might be offered. J. C. F.

Upper Grosvenor Street.

[Our correspondent J. BERNHARD SMITH corroborates the testimony of J. C. F., and refers to the famous incident in Marryat's Frank Mildmay, where Sally catches a crab and declines to repeat the catching.]

DR. HOMER'S "BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA UNIVERSALIS" (5th S. iv. 288; v. 75.)—The reply in "N. & Q." from MR. WILLARD FISKE, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S., respecting the restingplaces of this valuable MS., in two-fold shape, is another striking proof of the interest kept up in the literary world by the queries in "N. & Q.," and of their interesting results. I omitted, however, to state, and now seek to repair my omission, that my information was derived, in the first instance, from the Rev. Dr. Bloxam's Register of the Residents, Fellows, Demies, Chaplains, Clerks, Choristers, &c., of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, a work of great labour and research, which has proceeded as far as the third_volume, 8vo., Oxford, 1853-1863. J. MACRAY.

RECORDS OF LONG SERVICE (5th S. v. 266, 335, 479.)-Two coloured women, named Annette and Kitty, were both born the slaves of Mrs. Joshua Clibborn, of Brooklyn, N.Y. (née Fishbourne, of Georgia). The former was in her service fifty-five

WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

AUTOGRAPHS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (5th S. vi. 88, 219.)-I have a copy of the Pensées Ingénieuses des Pères de l'Eglise (Paris, 1700), on the title-page of which is the autograph, Joshua Reynolds." Beneath the title is a brief note, apparently in the same hand, relating to the person who compiled the volume, "Recueillies par le Père Bonhours." I have myself no knowledge of Sir Joshua's MS., but inside the cover of the volume is a bookseller's pencil note, pointing out that the autograph is to be found therein. J. WOODWARD.

Montrose.

MRS. KITTY CUTHBERTSON (5th S. vi. 168, 274.) -Is not the Romance of the Forest the same as the Romance of the Pyrenees? The former appeared first in the Lady's Magazine. I always understood that it was written by Mrs. Clara Reeve. E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP.

SHERIDAN'S BEGUM SPEECH (5th S. v. 513; vi. 115, 197.)-Perhaps NIGRAVIENSIS had in his mind, when he penned his query, some recollection of the following passage in Macaulay's essay on Warren Hastings:

"The charge touching the spoliation of the Begums was brought forward by Sheridan, in a speech which was so imperfectly reported that it may be said to be wholly lost, but which was, without doubt, the most elaborately brilliant of all the productions of his ingenious mind. ...... Within four and twenty hours Sheridan was offered a thousand pounds for the copyright of the speech, if he would himself correct it for the press" (Essays, vol. ii. 233, ed. 1854).

MR. WARD suggests that the report in his possession is made up of notes by Sheridan himself, but it seems more probable, when we consider the various statements, that it is only a transcript of notes made by a hearer, like the MS. in the hands of JABEZ. Macaulay's words certainly imply that no authorized edition was ever published.

WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

VOLTAIRE UPON RACINE (5th S. vi. 268, 335.)— This seems to me a more convenient heading for the index than "La Psychologie de Shakspeare." On returning to town and consulting my copy of Racine (Théâtre Complet de J. Racine, précidi d'une notice par M. Auger, Sécrétaire Perpétuel de l'Académie Française, Paris, Didot Frères, 1846, grand en-18), I find that, as might be ex

pected, M. GAUSSERON'S recollection of Voltaire's expressions is much more nearly right than mine, although even he, if M. Auger is to be trusted, is not perfectly accurate. Auger says (lib. cit., p. 9):

"Voltaire le croyait le plus parfait de tous nos poëtes, et le seul qui soutienne constamment l'épreuve de la lecture. Il en parlait même avec tant d'enthousiasme, qu'un homme de lettres lui demandant pourquoi il ne faisait par sur Racine le même travail qu'il avait fait sur Corneille: Il est tout fait,' lui répondit Voltaire; il n'y a qu'à écrire au bas de chaque page, BEAU,

PATHETIQUE, HARMONIEUX, SUBLIME.'

MIDDLE TEMPLAR.

happen to children old enough to understand tracts.
Canon Ryle, in his Commentary, on Matthew
xix. 13, 14, observes: "With such a passage as
this surely we may hope well about the salvation
of all who die in infancy, 'Of such is the king-
dom of heaven.""
P. P.

THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN (5th S. vi. 51, 175, 338.)-There is a version of this story, too long to quote in "N. & Q.," in P. Gasparis Schotti Physica Curiosa (Herbipoli, 1697), p. 452. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Bottesford Manor, Brigg.

AUTHORS AND QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. vi.

UMBRELLAS (5th S. vi. 202, 313, 335, 394.)-450, 498, 525, 546.)— Since writing my last note on this subject I have come across an early and quaint use of the word in Quarles, bk. iv. emblem 14 (published in 1635): "Look up, my soul, advance the lowly stature

"Of thine unspoken word," &c.
In Horace's Epistles (i. 18) occurs the line-

Of thy sad thoughts; advance thy humble eye:
See, here's a shadow found: the human nature
Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,
To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator:
Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie."
T. LEWIS O. DAVIES.

Pear Tree Vicarage, Southampton.

"Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum." This is more likely to be the original of the above lines. Again, "Litera scripta manet" of Horace contains same idea. J. WINGFIELD, M.A.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Woman, and her Work in the World. By C. N. Cresswell, of the Inner Temple. (Hardwicke & Bogue.) "INFANTS IN HELL BUT A SPAN LONG" (2nd S. EIGHT years ago the author of this clever book was asked xi. 289; 5th S. vi. 256, 316, 352.)-This expression, to deliver a lecture to a suburban literary association, the embodiment of the doctrine of the damnation time limited to two hours (which, we must say, was a of unbaptized infants, was in being more than great compliment to the ability of the lecturer as well as half a century before Burns was born. Thomas be such as would not ruffle the nice sense, or, as Mr to the patience of an audience), and manner required to Story, an eminent minister among Friends and Cresswell better puts it, would enable the lecturer to sometime Master of the Rolls in Pennsylvania, "tread lightly, as the toes of his audience would be senin his Life and Journals (ed. 1747, Newcastle- sitive even to the most delicate impressions." Thereupon-Tyne, p. 308), mentions having a controversy upon Mr. Cresswell, with the natural audacity of a with a young man from Connecticut, a Presby-"the quiet side of our home life," illustrated it like a Templar, took "Woman" for his subject; and, choosing terian, at Scituate, Mass., in 1704, who believed gentleman who thoroughly understood what he was they were all damned who were unbaptized, who about. It has been the pastime of a long vacation to resaid, concerning infants, "that many millions of cast this lecture for the benefit of a wider public, whose them not a span long were hanging in hell." This susceptibilities and sensitiveness are thoroughly respected. is twice repeated on the same page. An able Among the author's conclusions may be noted that "the sustaining power which gives vigour and permanence to author of Philadelphia has published an interesting a nation......is derived from moral causes affecting the work on the history of this peculiar belief, which relations of the sexes, and an instinct of natural justice the Presbyterians of America of the present day regulating their mutual intercourse." In China women deny ever prevailed among them to any extent. enjoy rank, influence, and education through the inborn He shows, however, to the contrary. The pam-Burmah and Siam "the teaching of Buddha and the piety of the people, who have no dogmatic religion. In phlet, which I believe has since been extended to example of his spotless life has created a national sentia volume, is entitledment of mutual respect and dependence between the sexes which has elevated woman to a social position almost superior to that of man." Under the Mosaic law and under Mahometanism, Mr. Cresswell finds woman under a yoke of degradation. Jesus placed woman on a perfect equality with man; but man, slow to accept such a basis of civilization, has disobeyed the regulation, and decay will follow disobedience unless man adopts the "abiding principle of social well being, the equitable adjustment of the burden of humanity between the sexes, and the establishment in the State of those just relations between the man and the woman which we believe to have been ordained from the beginning of the world." in Mr. Cresswell's brief, where it is written, "The spirit But this last conclusion, is it not contrary to the evidence and ordinance of the Mosaic law assigned to woman an

"Infant Salvation in the Calvinistic System: a Review of Dr. Hodge's Systematic Theology. By C. P. Krauth, D.D." Pp. 82, 8vo., Philadelphia, 1874. A review of the above states that the author "brings forward a vast amount of Calvinistic authorities, and displays such an acquaintance with the Reformed literature as few of the Reformed divines can boast of."

Camden, New Jersey.

WILLIAM JOHN POTTS.

MR. BOUCHIER will be glad to know that Canon Ryle agrees with him as to infants, whatever may

inferior status. Polygamy, maintained by the spoils of war, made the Jewish wife of no higher account than the prize of military valour"? Save on this one point, where the pleader contradicts himself, we rule that Mr. Cresswell is entitled to a verdict, and much future profitable practice.

The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, related by Themselves. Third Series. Edited by John Morris, Priest of the Society of Jesus. (Burns & Oates.) THE reverend editor's third series of his book of martyrs is confined to painful incidents which had Yorkshire for their stage. Every person of Christian-like feeling will read the narrative with as much indignation as that of the Protestant martyrs under "bloody Mary." One could have wished that the foundation for the belief of the latter-named sufferers had not been called "a filthy gospel." All justly tempered readers who peruse the narratives on both sides will come to the old conclusion, that the bigots in all communities are the obstacles against the consummation which the Divine Master taught, and which He based upon charity.

A Primaval British Metropolis. With some Notes on the Ancient Topography of the South-Western Peninsula of Britain. (Bristol, Kerslake & Co.) MR. KERSLAKE has the art, or gift, of making the subject of his pen light, amusing, and instructive for his readers. These, if they be not already antiquaries, stand a good chance of becoming so when they find an antiquarian theme, such as that of the identification of Caer Pensauelcoit with Penselwood on the Stour, treated so ably and interestingly as we find it here. Reading about the Pen Pits will probably be found more easy and even more intelligible than a journey to, and a contemplation of, the cellars of the dwelling-houses of primæval British inhabitants.

The Public Schools' Atlas of Ancient Geography. Edited, with an Introduction, by the Rev. George Butler, M.A. (Longmans.)

THE Principal of Liverpool College is to be heartily congratulated on this his most recent production. Possessing the very great and essential merits of its Modern precursor-clearness of type and a total absence of overcrowding of names-we think we do not go very far wrong in predicting for Mr. Butler's labours a much wider appreciation than he modestly anticipates. Compiled on the plan of the modern atlas referred to, the Atlas of Ancient Geography consists of twenty-eight beautifully executed maps. In the plan of Rome the authority chiefly followed has been Mr. Burn's Rome and the Campagna, while regard has also been had to the publications of the Antiquarian Society at Rome and to the recent researches of Mr. J. H. Parker.

FROM Messrs. Parker we have received Cicero's Oration for S. Roscius Amerinus (Latin Texts with Notes), by the Rev. J. R. King, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford. Mr. King has mainly followed the text of Baiter and Kayser (Leipsic, 1861).-Poems selected from the Works of Robert Burns is an instalment of Mr. Storr's English School Classics, and edited by A. M. Bell, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford. An admirable life of the poet is given. Mr. J. Surtees Phillpotts, M.A., the Head Master of Bedford Grammar School, has edited, under the title of Homer without a Lexicon, for Beginners, book vi. of the Iliad. Opinions may differ as to the method adopted by the editor, out certainly his object is a good one-to impart interest to the learner and relieve him of a sense of drudgery.- Messrs. Rivingtons, the publishers of these works, also send us parts xv. and xvi. of Mr. Garland's Genesis with Notes.-Llewelyn is the title of a tragedy by A. E. Carteret (Remington & Co.).

STATE POEMS.-With great interest I have read the excellent index to the State Poems published in your last numbers, and I, for one, should be thankful to E. S. if he would carry out his idea of compiling for the readers of "N. & Q." "a reference to subjects, such as Monmouth, Jeffries, Abdication, Shaftesbury, William III., &c."; I Such an index would be invaluable to students, not only might add Dryden, Whig and Tory, and many others. of history, but also of literature.

Paris.

A. BELJAME.

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Notices to Correspondents.

ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

C. P. E. has collected the titles, &c, of more than 300 works, which are all, either wholly or partially, descrip tive of the city of Bath and its connexions. In aid of a Bath bibliography, C. P. E. asks for literary contribu tions to enable him to complete his work.

L. P. D.-The paragraph in the Times of the 14th ult. runs:-"Eschylus, as has been well said, painted mankind as they never could be; Sophocles, as they ought to be; Euripides, as they are.""

JUNIOR GARRICK.

"Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good," is from Howard's heroic play, The Indian Queen (1665). MR. FRANK CARR asks whether there is a translation into English of the poems of C. N. Bellman, "the Swedish Burns," and if so where it can be obtained.

HERMENTRUDE would be glad to join ARGENT's proposed society.

MIDDLE TEMPLAR.-We have forwarded your name and address to APIS.

CYRIL. "I am a man who still clings."

not always to be relied on. F. B.-The quarter from whence this story comes is

A. BELJAME.-Acknowledged with thanks and good wishes.

C. A. W., on Gouache, is referred to "N. & Q.," Notices to Correspondents, p. 420 of our last volume. L. X. (Latin Bible) has not sent his name and address.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1877.

CONTENTS.- N° 159.

language in which the lofty diction of the Chorus of Clouds affected the simple-hearted Athenian."-Essays, ed. 1862, vol. ii. p. 433.

"The more strictly Mr. Gladstone reasons on his pre

brings out; and when at last his good sense and good nature recoil from the horrible practical inferences to which his theory leads, he is reduced sometimes to take refuge in arguments inconsistent with his fundamental doctrines, and sometimes to escape from the legitimate consequences of his false principles under cover of equally false history."-Ibid., p. 434.

NOTES:-Lord Macaulay and Mr. Gladstone, 21-The Jaco-mises, the more absurd are the conclusions which he bite Standards-Shakspeariana, 22-Two Curious Lists of Londoners, temp. Queen Elizabeth - Verses written by Thomas Moore in his Fourteenth Year, 23-Poetical and Literary Prevision-"Such as should be saved," 24-Bradshaw the Regicide-Newton on Daniel-" Derange "-The White Tsar-The Unicorn, 25-New Year's Day Superstitions-"Fast and Loose "-The Rochdale Library-"Pale Gate," &c., 26. QUERIES: The Lawyer's Fortune," 1705-"The Crimes of the Clergy "-A French History of England-The Old Testament-1he Elizabethan Admirals - Chartulary of Trentham Priory-Rev. T. Waring, 27-Heraldic Book-Plate-Arms, but no Crest-Parentage of Thomas à Becket-Sea Policy Office, London-Clerical J. P.s-Billericay-Oriental Customs, 28-"Caimé "-"Spurrow"-St. Andrew's Day"Love's Pilgrim "-Thurston the Actor-Authors and Quotations Wanted, &c., 29. REPLIES:-Curious Wills: Month's Mind, 29-" Spurring," 30-Addison: Dent-Rev. W. Blaxton, 31-" Humbug," 32 -"Oy "-"Murrain "-Devonshire Knights in the Tower, 33-Lady Jane Covert, of Peper Harrow-The Long-tailed Titmouse-The Linley Family, 34-The Book of Common Prayer-Alban Butler-E. Collier-Charles II.'s "Drops ""Thropp's Wife"-A Satire, 35-"Froppish"-Automaton Chess Player-"A man loaded," &c.-Book-Plates-Books on Coins, 36-Cosies-"Wicks"-"Implement "-Rags on Trees-" Fodderham "-Angus Earls-All-flower WaterDialect-Bibliography of "Punch and Judy," 37-Constance, eldest Sister of Lord Mauley-"Embracing the church"-"To catch a crab"-Anthem in the Mozarabic Missal-Verses on Portraiture-Roger Brierley-The Stephens and Hartley Nostrums, 38-Wordsworth's Originality -“Party”—Authors and Quotations Wanted, &c., 39.

Notes.

LORD MACAULAY AND MR. GLADSTONE. I have given myself much entertainment during the late wet holidays by reading Macaulay's review of Gladstone, On Church and State, in the Edinburgh, April, 1839, and Gladstone on Macaulay, in the Quarterly Review, for July, 1876. Mr. Gladstone's work was riddled by Macaulay. Whether the review laid the foundation for the

conversion of Mr. Gladstone to the necessity of the disestablishment of the Irish Church, it would not be proper to enter upon in your pages, but he article in the Quarterly shows marked evidence of the pain, long endured, which Macaulay's censure caused. I begin with Macaulay on Glad

stone :

"It is not unusual for a person who is eager to prove a particular proposition to assume a major of huge extent, which includes that particular proposition, without ever reflecting that it includes a great deal more. The fatal facility with which Mr. Gladstone multiplies expressions stately and sonorous, but of indeterminate meaning, eminently qualifies him to practise this sleight on himself and on his readers....He first resolves on his conclusion. He then makes a major of most comprehensive dimensions; and, having satisfied himself that it contains his conclusion, never troubles himself about what else it may contain; and, as soon as we examine it, we find that it contains an infinite number of conclusions, every one of which is a monstrous absurdity."-Ibid., p. 446. "Mr. Gladstone evades this question, and perhaps it was his wisest course to do so."-Ibid., p. 451.

"Now here Mr. Gladstone, quoting from memory, has fallen into error. The very remarkable words which he cites do not appear to have had any reference to the wound inflicted by Peter on Malchus. They were addressed to Pilate, in answer to the question, 'Art thou the King of the Jews?' We cannot help saying that we are surprised that Mr. Gladstone should not have verified a quotation on which, according to him, principally depends the right of a hundred millions of his fellow subjects, idolaters, Mussulmans, Catholics, and dissenters, to their property, their liberty, and their lives."-Ibid., P. 460.

:

I now pass to Gladstone on Macaulay :— "He could detect justly this want of dry light in others."-Q. R., p. 18.

"It has been observed that neither in art nor letters

did Macaulay display that faculty of the higher criti-
and the power of subtle analysis.......
cism which depends upon certain refined perceptions

"When once his rapid eye was struck with some powerful effect, he could not wait to ascertain whether his idea, formed at a first view, really agreed with the ultimate presentation of the facts."-Q. R., p. 10.

"Such is the overpowering glow of colour, such the fascination of the grouping in the first sketches which he draws, that, when hot upon his work, he seems to lose all sense of the restraints of fact and the laws of moderation. He vents the strangest paradoxes, sets up the most violent caricatures, and handles the false weight and measure as effectively as if he did it knowingly."Q. R., p. 31.

"The corrections made in his works were lamentably rare; the acknowledgments were rarer and feebler still."

"Mr. Gladstone seems to us to be, in many respects, exceedingly well qualified for philosophical investigation. His mind is of large grasp; nor is he deficient in dialectical skill. But he does not give his intellect fair play. There is no want of light, but a great want of what Bacon would have called dry light. Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and distorted by a false medium of passions and prejudices. His style bears a remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and in--Q. R., p. 33. deed exercises great influence on his mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator, a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import; of a kind of

"It is hardly too much to say that with so prepossessed a mind, when once committed, argument is powerless and useless."-Q. R., p. 35.

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Macaulay was perhaps not strong in his reflective faculties; certainly he gave them little chance of development by exercise."-Q. R., p. 48.

"We sometimes fancy that ere long there will be editions of his works in which his readers may be saved

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