f Ferrar, who died in 1637, the imitation was evidently not _his_.
Only so much of the inscription is here given as is requisite to show the
parallel.

"He who (by reproof of our errors, and remonstrance of that which is
more perfect) seeks to make us better, is welcome as an Angel of God:
and he who (by a cheerful participation of that which is good) confirms
us in the same, is welcome as a Christian friend. But he who faults us
in absence, for that which in presence he made show to approve of, doth
by a double guilt of flattery and slander violate the bands both of
friendship and charity."

Thus writes Benlowes:

"He who shall contribute to the improvement of the author, either by a
prudent detection of an errour, or a sober communication of an
irrefragable truth, deserves the venerable esteem and welcome of a good
Angel. And he who by a candid adherence unto, and a fruitful
participation of, what is good and pious, confirms him therein, merits
the honourable entertainment of a faithful friend: but he who shall
traduce him in absence for what in presence he would seem to applaud,
incurres the double guilt of flattery and slander: and he who wounds
him with ill reading and misprision, does execution on him before
judgement."

G. A. S.

_Traditions from remote Periods through few Links_ (Vol. iii., p.
206.).--The communication of H. J. B., showing how a subject of our beloved
Queen Victoria can, with the intervention, as a lawyer would say, of "three
lives," connect herself with one who was a liegeman of that very dissimilar
monarch, Richard III., reminds me of a fact which I have long determined in
some way to commit to record. It is this: My father, who is only
sixty-eight years old, is connected in a similar mode with a person who had
the plague during the prevalence of that awful scourge in the metropolis in
the year 1665, with the intervention of _one_ life only. My grandfather,
John Lower of Alfriston, co. Sussex, distinctly remembered an aged woman,
who died at the adjacent village of Berwick at about ninety, and who had,
in her fourth year, recovered from that frightful disease. Should it please
Providence to spare my father's life to see his eighty-third birthday, the
recollections of three persons will thus connect events separated by a
period of two centuries.

I may take this opportunity of mentioning a fact which may interest such of