reating the fame of, and in discharging his duty to, his great master.
If, however, he cannot afford the time, trouble, and cost of the
undertaking, I make him this public offer; I will, myself, take the
responsibility of the publication of the above-mentioned four works, if he
will entrust me with the MSS.

The Editor will, I doubt not, be good enough to forward to the learned
Doctor a copy of the Number in which this appeal is published.

C. MANFIELD INGLEBY.

Birmingham.

* * * * *

MR. JUSTICE TALFOURD AND DR. BEATTIE.

(Vol. ix., p 393.)

There is so much similarity of character, in respect of sympathy for the
humbler position and the well-being of others, between this lamented judge
and that of the professor who is depicted by his biographer in the
following extract, that I hope you will agree with me in thinking it worthy
of being framed, and hung up as a companion-sketch in your pages:

"As a Professor, not his own class only, but the whole body of students
at the University, looked up to him with esteem and veneration. The
profound piety of the public prayers, with which he began the business
of each day, arrested the attention of the youngest and most
thoughtless; the excellence of his moral character; his gravity blended
with cheerfulness, his strictness joined with gentleness, his favour to
the virtuous and diligent, and even the mildness of his reproofs to
those who were less attentive, rendered him the object of their respect
and admiration. Never was more exact discipline preserved than in his
class, nor ever anywhere by more gentle means. His sway was absolute,
because it was founded in reason and affection. He never employed a
harsh epithet in finding fault with any of his pupils; and when,
instead of a rebuke which they were conscious they deserved, they met
merely with a mild reproof, it was conveyed in such a manner as to
throw not only the delinquent, but sometimes the whole class into
tears. To gain his favour was the highest ambition of every student;
and the gentlest word of disapprobation was a punishment, to avoid
which, no exertion was deemed too much. His great object was not merely
to make his pupils philosophers, but to render them good men, pious
Christians, loyal to their king, and attached to the British
constitution; pure in morals, happy in the consciousness of a r