ess of Westmoreland and
her seven castles may be found in Whitaker's History of Craven, and
in Pennant.

LITERARY PARALLELS.

An opinion on this subject in the preceding article has led me to a
further investigation. It may be right to acknowledge that so attractive
is this critical and moral amusement of comparing great characters with
one another, that, among others, Bishop Hurd once proposed to write _a
book of Parallels_, and has furnished a specimen in that of Petrarch and
Rousseau, and intended for another that of Erasmus with Cicero. It is
amusing to observe how a lively and subtle mind can strike out
resemblances, and make contraries accord, and at the same time it may
show the pinching difficulties through which a parallel is pushed, till
it ends in a paradox.

Hurd says of Petrarch and Rousseau--"Both were impelled by an equal
enthusiasm, though directed towards different objects: Petrarch's
towards the glory of the Roman name, Rousseau's towards his idol of a
state of nature; the one religious, the other _un esprit fort_; but may
not Petrarch's spite to Babylon be considered, in his time, as a species
of free-thinking"--and concludes, that "both were mad, but of a
different nature." Unquestionably there were features much alike, and
almost peculiar to these two literary characters; but I doubt if Hurd
has comprehended them in the parallel.

I now give a specimen of those parallels which have done so much
mischief in the literary world, when drawn by a hand which covertly
leans on one side. An elaborate one of this sort was composed by
Longolius or Longuel, between Budaeus and Erasmus.[269] This man, though
of Dutch origin, affected to pass for a Frenchman, and, to pay his court
to his chosen people, gives the preference obliquely to the French
Budaeus; though, to make a show of impartiality, he acknowledges that
Francis the First had awarded it to Erasmus; but probably he did not
infer that kings were the most able reviewers! This parallel was sent
forth during the lifetime of both these great scholars, who had long
been correspondents, but the publication of the parallel interrupted
their friendly intercourse. Erasmus returned his compliments and thanks
to Longolius, but at the same time insinuates a gentle hint that he was
not overpleased. "What pleases me most," Erasmus writes, "is the just
preference you have given Budaeus over me; I confess you are even too
economical in your praise