And make each day a critique on the last. (8)
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true;
Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do:
Men must be taught as if you taught them not;
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Without good breeding (9) truth is disapproved;
That only makes superior sense beloved.

Be niggards of advice on no pretence;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.
With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust,
Nor be so civil as (10) to prove unjust.

14. Injudiciously expressed; harm;
mistakes regarding trifling matters.
19. Grudging givers; account.

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20. Unkindest miserliness; good counsel.

21. Low-minded politeness; be false to. 22. Solicitous to please; become.

(8) "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday."Pope's Works, "Thoughts on Various Subjects."

(9) "The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. Good nature is seen in a disposition to say and do what one thinks will please or profit others; good breeding, in doing nothing one thinks will either hurt or displease them. Good nature and good sense come from our births or tempers; good breeding and truth, chiefly by education and converse with men ; yet truth seems much in one's blood, and is gained too by good sense and reflection; that nothing is a greater possession, nor of more advantage to those that have it, as well as those that deal with it."-Sir William Temple's " Essays," Works, vol. ii., p. 161.

"I perceive there is in the world a good nature, falsely so called, as being nothing but a facile and flexible disposition, wax for every impression. What others are so bold to beg, they are so bashful as not to deny. Such osiers can never make beams to bear stress in Church and State. If this be good nature, let me always be a clown; if this be good fellowship, let me always be a churl. Give me to set a sturdy porter before my soul, who may not equally open to every comer. I cannot conceive how he can be a friend to any who is a friend to all, and the worst foe to himself.”—Dr. Thomas Fuller's "Good Thoughts in Bad Times," &c.

(10) Pope's early experience did not bear out his maxim. While this poem was employing his mind he was engaged in revising the poems of Wycherley (1640-1715), with the result given in the following narrative. Wycherley "was still a wit and beau, but in ruins. As the author of The Plain Dealer,' the friend of Dryden, and the once fashionable and irresistible courtier, Wycherley had powerful attractions for young Pope. In town, he says, 'he ran after him like a dog;' and in his letters he overflowed with elaborate expressions of humility and gratitude. His first glimpses of town life and coffee-house society were opened up by this acquaintance. Wycherley, in his turn, was willing to profit by the literary talents of his new friend; 'I am,' said the dramatist, 'like an old rook who is ruined by gaming, and forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men whose fancies are so vigorous that they insure their success in their adventures with the Muses.' And, acting in the spirit of this self-abasing declaration, he submitted his poems to his pushing young friend for correction. 'Gil Blas' was not then written, and Pope undertook the perilous office. At first he appears to have succeeded to the satisfaction of Wycherley, who longed to reap a fresh harvest of

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;

Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

[From those who by dulness, pride, folly, &c., are hopelessly irreclaimable, advice should be withheld.]

'Twere well might critics still this freedom take;
But Appius reddens at each word you speak,
And stares tremendous, with a threatening eye,
Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry. (11)
Fear most to tax an Honourable fool,
Whose right it is-uncensured-to be dull!
Such, without wit, are poets when they please,
As without learning they can take degrees.
Leave dangerous truths to unsuccessful satires,
And flattery to fulsome dedicators,

24. Receive severe criticism.
29. Act as critic to; titled.

34. False praise; adulatory.

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poetical honours. You have,' he said, ' pruned my fading laurels of some superfluous, sapless, and dead branches, to make the remainder live the longer; and thus, like your master Apollo, you are at once a poet and a physician.' The next application was of a sharper and less palatable description. Pope said he had contracted some of the pieces,' as we do sunbeams, to improve their energy and force;' some he took quite away, 'as we take branches from a tree to add to the fruit;' and others he entirely new expressed, and turned more into poetry.' The somewhat mortified wit grumbled forth thanks. As to the verses, he said, 'Let them undergo your purgatory;' and by way of sedative he threw out a hope that his critic's great, vigorous, and active mind would not be able to destroy his little tender, crazy carcass.' The 'infallible Pope' proceeded, and letters were interchanged, full of forced wit and hollow professions of great regard, till at length the young critic boldly suggested, that with regard to some of the pieces it would be better to destroy the whole frame, and reduce them into single thoughts in prose, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's maxims. This staggered Wycherley, and brought the farce of poet and critic to an end. The unfortunate manuscripts were recalled, and Pope about the same time wrote to say, that as merely marking the repetitions on the margin would not get rid of these repetitions, nor rectify the method, connect the matter, or improve the poetry, it was his opinion and desire that his friend should take the papers out of his hand! There is a dash of petulance in this closing epistle, and Mr. Leigh Hunt's summing up is the correct one: Of the two Wycherley appears to have been less in the wrong, but then his experience left him the smaller excuse for not foreseeing the result.""—" The Life of Pope," by Robert Carruthers, Esq., pp. 24-27.

(11) John Dennis (see British Controversialist, 1865, p. 156) published in 1708 a tragedy entitled "Appius and Virginia," for which he invented a new imitation of thunder-that, we believe, still used in theatres. Dennis took these lines to himself, most probably justly, for Pope, in his "Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris" on the frenzy of J. D., thus barbs the line in a description of the apartment of Dennis:-"I observed his room was hung with old tapestry, which had several holes in it, caused, as the old woman informed me, by his having cut out of it the heads of divers tyrants, the fierceness of whose visages had much provoked him."

LITERARY NOTES.

Whom, when they praise, the world believes no more
Than when they promise to give scribbling o'er.
'Tis best sometimes your censure to restrain,
And charitably let the dull be vain:

Your silence there is better than your spite;
For who can rail so long as they can write?

[Incorrigible poets portrayed.]

Still humming on, their drowsy course they keep,
And lashed so long, like tops, are lashed asleep.
False steps but help them to renew their race,
As, after stumbling, jades will mend their pace.
What crowds of these impenitently bold,
In sounds and jingling syllables grown old,
Still run on, poets, in a raging vein,
Even to the dregs and squeezings of the brain,
Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense,
And rhyme with all the rage of impotence!

38. Good-naturedly allow; emptysouled.

40. Is able to find fault.

41. Busily writing; sleep-causing.

47. Proceed as if they were; inspired

style.

48. Squeeze; lees; minds.
49. Tag line to line; helplessness.

Literary Notes.

Mr. Cohn, author of "Shakspere in Germany," member of the firm of Asher and Co., has a fresh Shakspere book in the press.

Strauss's new" Life of Jesus" is now issued by subscription, translated, by Williams and Norgate.

Rev. A. W. Haddon, who was chosen Bampton Lecturer for 1866, has resigned through illness, and Rev. H. P. Liddon has been appointed in his place.

A new religious monthly serial, entitled, "The Watchmen of Ephraim," edited by the author of "The Mission of Elijah," ," "The Millennium," &c.

Dr. F. Ahlfield, of Leipsic, has translated the "Pilgrim's Progress" into German.

"The Historical Ballads of Germany from Thirteenth to Sixteenth Century " are being published.

Dr. M. J. Chapman, author of "He

Modern Logicians.

GEORGE JARDINE, A.M., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.

Author of " Outlines of Philosophical Education," &c.

IN a dark and densely-peopled pathway, stretching from the cathedral towards the river Clyde, and named of old High Church Street (though now, in the haste of our age, ordinarily denuded of its ecclesiastical reference) may be seen on the right-hand side going St. Mungo-wards-a dingy, picturesque, many-windowed and massive range of curiously carved Elizabetho-Gothic buildings, which look strangely misplaced amid the on-hurrying life of the decaystricken thoroughfare which once formed the main highway of the city of Glasgow. That fine smoke-blackened antique edifice is the University. Since James, the first Lord Hamilton, in 1460, endowed the old Pedagogium-founded in 1450-1-with a suitable site; and the teaching of theology and law was emancipated from the Blackfriars Monastery and the Cathedral crypt, the college has imparted dignity, grace, and impressiveness to that dinful, bustling and muchfrequented city street. Around is the stir and strife of lowly life; and the signs of the sins and sorrows of a great city are patent to.. the most casual observer-in its neighbourhood abounds the incessant machinery of active manufactures, the constant hum of commerce, and the unresting haste of labour; but

It is soon, however, to be so no longer. We read in the advertisement columns of the newspapers that "its removal has now become necessary, in consequence of the college grounds and buildings being required for a railway station." As Alexander Smith has said-in a little while the famous University will be a famous university no longer. Learning is about to take its flight westvard to a spick-and-span new building on a sunny hill; and the old halls which have held so many eloquent voices are about to De transformed into a central railway station. And yet in such a 1866.

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