uty of form. I have
some misgivings about the faces of boxers, which are not
remarkable for beauty, but the artist may improve them a
little without destroying the likeness; and besides, in a
naked figure we look less at the face than at the body and
limbs. The champion of England would certainly have had a
statue by Lysippus or some artist as good, if he had been
lucky enough to live in ancient times.... We shall, of
course, want a place to put these statues in, for we may be
sure they will not get into the churches, which are only
made for statues of fighting men who have killed somebody or
ordered somebody to kill somebody.

"I could go on much longer, but I don't choose. I write to
amuse myself, and also to instruct, and when I am tired, I
stop. I see no reason why I should exhaust the subject. I
should only be giving my ideas to people who have none, who
make a reputation out of other folks' brains, who pounce on
anything that they find ready to their hand, and flood us
with books made only to sell."

It is already, I imagine, abundantly clear that Long would not have much
liked many things that we do to-day. Writing of "Place and Power," he
says: "At that very distant time when all members of Parliament shall be
Andrew Marvells and will live on two hundred a year, poor men may do our
business for us; but for the present I prefer men who are rich enough to
live without the profits of place. I wish somebody would move for a
return of all the visible and invisible means of support which every
member of the Commons has. I want to know how much every man in the
House receives of public money, whether he is soldier, sailor,
place-holder, sinecurist, or anything else; and also how much he has by
the year of his own." Elsewhere he says: "There is no occasion to print
any more sermons.... I have always wondered why so much is written on
the doctrines and principles of Christianity and on good living, when we
have it done long ago in a few books which we all refer to as our
authority." And this is good: "I wish Euclid could have secured a
perpetual copyright. It might have helped the finances of the Greeks."

But I am not proposing to dissect Long's essays; it is the fine rebuke
to an American publisher that I want to bring to your notice, for there
Long's habitual serenity takes an edge. His protest runs thus:

"I have been