communicate more successfully. I entreat you to read, and I am sure that after reading you will employ it. The price is not more than two shillings, or two shillings and sixpence. I hope that you will lose no time in writing to Mr. Pillans, and desiring him to furnish you with two or three dozen for your scholars. Tell Pillans that I informed you of the book. You will direct to him as master of the high school, Edinburgh, and get somebody to frank your ietter. Dr. Butler desires to be respectfully remembered to you. Had the principles explained ir. this book been known to Bishop Lowth and other illustrious scholars, they would have escaped many improprieties. If we except the.......... of Ernesti and Scheller's Precepta, I know not any book where the smallest degree of scientific information can be gained. I shall return to Hatton in a few days, and hope to hear that you have sent for the books, soon. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. S. PARR. DEAR AND LEARNED SIR, The Bishop of London has sent me his Charge. You and I must see the good effect of practice upon his style-it has more the appearance of ease-and surely the ornamental parts are what we rarely see in episcopal Charges. Every page abounds with good sense, though, I must confess, that I am not entirely with him about the national church schools. I would compromise in terms where the Lancastrian and the improved Bell's plan cannot be pursued separately. But this, I find, is not the season of controversies upon matters of far greater moment, and I look with terror to the.... of the contending parties. Let us rejoice that Howley has so speedily, even amply verified my prediction, when we talked about this appointment at Cowes. Dr. Gabell, to Dr. Parr. MY DEAR DR. PARR, Winchester, 19 Sept. 1823. You are right-Dr. Warton, when he was appointed headmaster of Winchester College, delivered a latin oration in answer to a congratulary address from the senior boy, and the Oration ends with a future indicative after the final ut. In vobis Wiccanicorum sodalitiorum spes omnis et futura fama continentur: a vobis, alumni florentissimi! quorum præcipue in gratiam et commoditatem monia hæc construxit, uberrimum atque optimum munificentiæ suæ fructum, fundator vester expectat, qui de republicâ, de ecclesiâ, de patriâ, deque humano genere tantum meritus est, ut illius nomen ex annalibus nostris nulla unquam delebit oblivio. 21 September. Page 48. There is, I believe, no other instance of the future indicative after the final ut in the whole volume-nor indeed is there any other specimen of Dr. Warton's latin in prose. For the address to the King, supposed by Wooll to be the Doctor's, was, I am told, on credible authority, Tom's; and is, I think, superior to the Doctor's address to his boys in many respects. I should suppose the author of it to be capacle of writing the preliminary dissertation to Theocritus without the assistance of Lowth. But your words imply that you have evidence of the fact, not only internal but external. I would have sent this off, without losing a post immediately on the receipt of your second letter, and had written the first page, but found I was too late for the post. Not being able to find Wooll's book in the college library, and the Bishop of Hereford being absent, I hope I shall see you at Binfield. I look forward to my retirement with an ardour that will terminate I am afraid in disappointment. For though I know that men even of the strongest minds have found the change from a life of occupation to a life of inaction to be too great, and that a man may have too little to do as well as too much, yet when I think of Binfield and retirement, I seem to have lost all sobriety of mind, and to be under an incurable delusion. I have been at Fonthill. Farquhar says "If the King comes to see the Abbey, and likes it, I will give it to him." I am, my dear Dr. Parr, with great respect and regard Your very faithful servant, Rev. Dr. Samuel Glasse, father of Mr. George Henry Glasse, to Dr. Parr. DEAR SIR Hermitage, Dec. 11, 1767. Though our several engagements are such as prevent that intercourse which I am persuaded would always be agreeable to me, yet I beg leave to assure you I have a real esteem for your character, and look forward with great pleasure to the time when you will approve yourself an able and zealous defender of those great truths which I know meet with your present hearty persuasion and belief. I once took the liberty to beg your acceptance of a very excellent treatise, and indeed I think the only good one I ever met with on the subject, written by Mr. Jones on the Trinity; I herewith send you an appendix to that work, lately published, which I beg you will accept of, to complete the work and I am mistaken if you will not be much pleased with it. It will be necessary for your author's credit, that you should bear in your mind the title, an Address to the Common People, as there are no ambitiosa ornamenta, but only a great deal of plain common sense in the performance. I am, with great esteem, dear sir, your very faithful friend and humble servant, S. GLASSE. Rev. Dr. Hunt to Dr. Parr, and styled by him "the DEAR SIR, learned." Vice-Regal Lodge, Phanix Park, You very much overrate the trifling service my situation has enabled me to render you in your correspondence with friends in Ireland, and I trust you will feel no scruple in continuing to employ me in any way I can be useful to you here. I presume you know my privilege of franking and receiving letters free is not circumscribed by the ordinary limitations of the Post-office; it extends to any number of packets containing written papers, pamphlets, or unbound books. But I am not authorised to grant my name to the conveyance of any thing that may injure the letters in the Mail-bags by friction, or occupy an unwarrantable space; such as large books, articles of dress, lace, &c. which are subject to Custom-house duties on importation. I beg leave to inclose to you an advertisement of the proprietors of our parcel offices relative to the best mode of conveying such cumbersome folios as you express a wish of sending to the Bishop of Down; though I cannot presume to say how they perform their engagements, as I have never had occasion to employ them. And now, my dear Sir, allow me to assure you that I feel myself very highly gratified, in being permitted to hope that you may hereafter indulge me with your correspondence, on what is passing amongst English scholars. It is however a hope far from being unmixed with apprehension. For its completion seems to depend upon your being satisfied with the answers you may receive from me to certain questions you do me the honour to propose, as to the real pretensions I may have to the character scme partial friends of mine have given you, of my literary attainments. When I compare them with what others have ac quired, with assistance so very inferior to that I have enjoyed, I feel deeply humbled and mortified, and I must trust to your condescension in encouraging any zeal or attachment I may have shewn to classical pursuits; rather than to your admitting me into the number of those who have cultivated them with success. My early education was at the Free Grammar, or as it is called the Head School of Newcastle upon Tyne, under the late Hugh Moises; whose grateful pupils are now erecting a monument to his memory, with the distinguished names of Lord Eldon, Sir W. Jones, and Lord Collingwood at their head. I remained with him till he retired from the Mastership of the School; but being then too young to go to college, I was placed in the family and under the private tuition of a relative at Nottingham, the Rev. G. Walker, F. R. S. whom you must know as a profound mathematician, as a nervous writer, and above all, as having enjoyed the very favourable opinion of the great and enlightened statesman, whose loss we have now more than ever to deplore at a crisis so portentous to the liberties of the world. From Nottingham I went to Cambridge, where I was admitted Pensioner under Mr. Collier, of Trinity Collhge; and amongst the friendships I formed there, I recollect none with greater fondness than that of George Holmes, a pupil of your own, and one of whom, I believe, you are justly proud. My academical life during the four years of my residence at Cambridge was not devoted so much as it ought to have been to the studies of the place: nor was it marked by any acquisition of any prize whilst I was undergraduate. My name, indeed, was included in what is called the first class of Sophs, for having excelled in their exercises in the Public-schools-but at the Senate-house-examination I fell from my" high estate," and appeared on the tripos I believe sixth senior optimé, though my friends had anticipated my attaining the honour of being " a high wrangler." After taking orders at Buckden, where my examination procured me the favourable notice of the Bishop of Lincoln, I settled as curate in Bedfordshire; but on taking my degree of M. A. I was induced to accept the offer of accompanying Lord Elgin to Turkey as secretary to his embassy; during more than four years which I spent in the East, I visited the shores of the Hellespont and Bosphorus, I spent three weeks in the Tröad, I visited and examined the Greek manuscript-libraries in Constantinople, the Islands of the Propontis, and in the twenty-two Convents of Mount Athos; and sent home a very valuable collection of manuscripts, which, with those procured by my late friend Carlyle, are now in the Primate's library at Lambeth. I then traversed Macedonia, Epirus, Ætolia, Acarnania, &c. and resided a long time in Proper Greece; making Athens my head quarters for some months. I there obtained for Lord Elgin more valuable inscriptions, and sculpture of the age of Pericles, than all the cabinets in Western Europe contained. I then travelled through the Peloponnesus, touched at almost every celebrated Island in the Ægean Sea, and at Corcyra, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Leucadia, &c.; I then visited Crete, Rhodes, Alexandria in Egypt, and returned home by Malta, Sicily, Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice, Turin, and Geneva. On entering the French territory, I was made prisoner of war, and confined in different parts of France upwards of two years and a half. During near seven years absence from England, I was not idle. I very much improved my knowledge of modern languages. I even attained a tolerable fluency in modern Greek ; and I do not recollect to have omitted visiting one spot in the classic regions of Greece and Asia Minor that was celebrated for |