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WS Export
This tool needs to be covered on the page too. It powers our current "Download as EPUB" link and produces better output than the book tool (which is meant for Wikipedia and has problems with Wikisource). There's documentation at Oldwikisource:Wikisource:WSexport. The tool itself is at WMF labs. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 13:36, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Added for EPUB 2 as others are either beta or in development. Figuring beginners will not be challenged by unrefined tools and experienced will probably go check it out themselves after seeing the entry on EPUB 2 (especially if they know there is an EPUB 3). JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 16:36, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd point out that the author of WSexport does have plans to do a Kindle version but he's an 18 year-old Frenchman and who knows what his attention span is.
 * I personally have downloaded plenty of books using WSexport and convert them to Kindle using Calibre - which is a perfectly easy to use tool which will convert a large number of formats (16?) in quite a friendly way. But it seems to me that EPUB and MOBI cover 95% of what people typically use, so why not go to the French ws and try and encourage our friend there to do some more? Chris55 (talk) 22:49, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm not sure why you separate EPUB2, EPUB3 etc. These are just different versions of the same format and largely compatible with each other. e.g. EPUB3 adds audio capability (and EPUB4 is on the way!) and also MathML. These are evolutionary and largely invisible to the user. Chris55 (talk) 11:52, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I separated the different EPUB3 because the tools do, one seems to only do EPUB1 and the other EPUB2 (as a finished product). If Book Creator does EPUB2 or 3 then a change would be in order. Jeepday (talk) 12:07, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Help:Reading offline
I know this page is under development, but is above now redundant to this page? It is linked from Help:Contents. Moondyne (talk) 01:29, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

 * I don't think Help:Reading offline should be replaced by EBook. I'd say it should be about all the different ways of reading WS texts offline (including printing them), and certainly link to this page — which should be about ebooks and how to get WS content onto them.  Hmm... I guess it depends on how much there is to say about these things, as to whether they warrant two separate pages, or can fit together on one?  Whichever way, WS certainly needs to make it easier and clearer to people (i.e. non-editors) how to get books onto ereaders!  Help:Project Gutenberg is still the go-to place for PD books, I think, and it'd be nice to have WS thought of as as useful. — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 11:34, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Not disagreeing, but we should be conscious of instruction-creep and unnecessary duplication. Moondyne (talk) 14:40, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually that page seems more about policy than instruction. Are you referring to an older version? Moondyne (talk) 14:46, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I just now came on-line and in reading the above I immediately notice something that catches my attention. I notice the wording of EBook a lot quicker than the wording of Help:Reading offline. In fact, as I think more on this, I pay almost no attention to the wording of Help:Reading offline. I suppose that is because the wording of eBook, E-Book, &c., is so prevalent in many advertisements and sales. Too, I read paperbacks and hardcopies "offline" but EBook has a special place in the human psyche. "Reading offline" just does not catch the attention. It doesn't "cut it." I have never paid any attention to "help reading offline" whereas EBOOK immediately catches my attention and is a lot stronger whether it is EBook or any other EBook. Help:Reading offline sounds like a paper book library or a bookstore. "EBook" = electronics = digital formats.—Maury (talk) 07:01, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree with you that "Ebook" is a catchier title than "reading offline". But as Samwilson points out, that help file also covers printing as well as PDFs which may not traditionally be associated with ebooks. I can only think of printing being used on short items such as poems, but it's still important. If you can think of a better catchall title, we'll change it. Maybe we could add "and ebooks". Chris55 (talk) 11:22, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

PC Epub vs Kiwix
Has anyone used Kiwix for Wikisource works on the PC? It seems to be specifically designed for off line reading of Wikipedia articles. Before I research and added it, wanted to check if anyone has preexisting experience with it. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 11:50, 7 December 2012 (UTC) figured it out. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 22:16, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Mobi and PDB file types

 * Mobi - So far my research is indicating that the only device that will only take MOBI is the Kindle, if that is the case then directions for moving a book to a Kindle are sufficient. If anyone knows different please leave a note here.  Amazon also has a free tool for conversion but it is part of and intended for book sellers.  JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 22:22, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

 * PDB - So far my research is indicating that any device that wants PDB will also take EPUB, so conversion is not required. If anyone knows different please leave a note here. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 22:22, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Most popular ebook formats?
It's not easy to get reliable statistics on what people mostly use to read ebooks, because there's a lot of vested interests. But here is an interesting pair of samples, because it shows how volatile the market still is. Compare the difference between a 2009 and 2010 survey.

My guess as to why PDF has suddenly risen from the dead is one word: iPad. Whether it will continue at the top is anyone's guess because it's very inflexible, but it's also very popular for scanned documents. Probably more significant is the decline of TXT from 17% to 9%. Users are getting more sophisticated and the apps are available to read these formats.

Of course this survey doesn't represent what people are actually reading - in particular it will underestimate mobi/Kindle. (AZW=Mobi+DRM, LRF=EPUB+DRM.) Chris55 (talk) 23:31, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Kindle support
I know it's been a bit of time, but maybe it's time to add Kindle support. First, mobi isn't only used by Kindle, it just happens to be the most popular. Second, mobi is XHTML so the conversion from HTML to mobi is actually quite simple, which is why it's the preferred submission filetype for Amazon. And, the Kindle (one of the most popular eReaders), also handles straight up HTML files as well, with full chapter support, etc. With most older Kindles you have to change the file extension to .txt or .nownow but leaving it as HTML is fine and it will read it the same as it does mobi.

It's just on my mind because I had such a fun time today realizing that the standard book maker on the left and the supposed WS one listed in Prefs/Gadgets weren't able to make epub, odt, or pdf of the few books I tried. However, I should note that the epub link on the left menu did work well.

Anyway, I'm just thinking that we could install an already-made script to handle this if any admins feel similarly. The Haz talk 05:08, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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1832.] venomous Centipede, about three inches long, is found in similar situations, and among stones. Its bite is considered worse than the sting of the scorpion, producing gangrenous inflammation; but from the habits of these animals, which sting only in self-defence, and seek retirement, accidents rarely happen by them.

18th. Having received an invitation from a settler named Robert Mather, to pay him a visit at Lauderdale, on Muddy Plains, we made our way to his house, crossing a salt marsh on the side of which were large bushes of Shrubby Samphire. R. Mather sent notice to his neighbours, of our wish to have a meeting with them, and walked with us to the house of an industrious, sober couple, who, while prospering in temporal things, did not forget the importance of those that are spiritual. A well-worn bible was lying on their table, and the woman told us, that as she became unable to do needle-work by candle-light, she spent much of her evenings in reading this precious book to her family. Her husband was a marine, and is a pensioner. He was formerly addicted to the use of spirits, till, like many others in this country, he would bring rum home in a bucket, and drink it neat out of a pint tin. This, his wife would not allow, and he had the good sense to submit to her better government, by which he has become greatly raised in circumstances and in comfort. They have a neat, clean brick house, two tidy children, and a thriving garden, clear of weeds.—The hills on the peninsula of Muddy Plains abound with Blue Gum, Peppermint, and She-Oak: some of these trees as well as another kind called He-Oak, are also plentiful on the lower grounds.

19th. We had a meeting on R. Mather's premises, with about twenty-five persons, some of whom were prisoners, in which the people were warned against habitual sins. Drunkenness and swearing were particularly adverted to, as openly dishonouring God and serving the devil.

20th. Accompanied by R. Mather, we called on several of the settlers, many of whom are of the poorer class, to whom we spoke on the importance of attending to their spiritual concerns, and gave some tracts, for which they appeared grateful. We dined with a respectable family living

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64 in a hut of the humblest structure, who increased their means of support, by converting into lime, such shells as have accumulated in great abundance on the shore of Ralphs Bay. At this place we met with William Gellibrand—a settler residing on a peninsula in the Derwent called South Arm,—and accepting an invitation to visit his establishment, proceeded thither in a lime boat. W. Gellibrand's house is situated near the northern extremity of the peninsula: it commands a view of Ralphs Bay and the Derwent, backed by the woody hills on the shore, with Hobart Town at the distance of 9 miles. This part of South Arm is a little elevated. Basaltic and grit rocks project on its steep sides; on which Gulls and Shags roost in great numbers. Peach and almond trees are coming into blossom in the well-stocked garden. The native grass of the country is thin; but the land in tillage yields a fair return. The intelligent proprietor pays more attention than most persons, to the comfort and morals of his assigned servants. This attaches them to him, and raises a tone of feeling in their minds congenial to their reformation. On conversing with one of these men, who has had an unusual measure of privilege during the time he has been a prisoner, respecting the comparative difficulties he might expect on becoming free, his sentence expiring in a few days; he remarked, "But, Sir, Liberty is sweet!"

21st. We returned to the main land, and dined with an interesting family of Independents. Here we first partook of Kangaroo, the taste of which is somewhat intermediate between that of beef and mutton: it is usually served up with bacon in a kind of hash called "a steamer."

22nd. Accompanied by a son of R. Mather, we visited the settlers around the Pipeclay Lagoon, which opens into the sea, and on the shores of which were lying the remains of some Box and Cow-fishes. These are about four inches long, and are encased in coats of mail; having apertures for their mouths, eyes, fins and tails. One of the people on whom we called is said to be an illicit dealer in spirits, or what is called in the Colony, the keeper of a "Sly-grog-shop." These are a description of persons that are a great nuisance, but it is difficult to obtain evidence against them, and


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1832.] they are rather numerous in the Australian Colonies, especially in remote places.

23rd. Proceeding across a salt marsh to the shores of Frederick Henry Bay, we saw the Princess Royal—a vessel with female emigrants from England—driving from her anchors, in a violent storm of wind and snow. She was perceived also by some persons on the opposite side of the bay, who lighted a fire as a signal, on a point, behind which was a mud bed; on this, the ship went safely on shore in the night, the helmsman attending to an instruction received from the land, in a welcome English tongue, when those on board knew not on what coast they were driving. We took refuge from the snow storm in the house of a settler from Uxbridge, by whom we were hospitably entertained; and afterward proceeded to Glen Ayr, the residence of William de Gillern, which we made out when almost dark, by following the barking of a dog, and where we felt the value of a kind welcome, after a walk of 15 miles in snow, wet and mire.

24th. The snow was about three inches thick in the morning; but defending ourselves against the frequent showers, we went to Richmond, to arrange for holding a meeting. The court-house was readily granted for the purpose by William T. Parramore, the Police Magistrate; who also ordered a constable to invite the inhabitants. The court-house at this time was used as a place of worship by the Episcopalians and Wesleyans. The town of Richmond consisted of the court-house, a jail, a windmill, and about 30 dwelling-houses, three of which were inns. It is prettily situated, at the extremity of an inlet called the Sweet Water.

In the evening we returned to Glen Ayr. The snow among trees in full foliage, presented a novel appearance to an Englishman.—All the trees and shrubs of this country are evergreens; and with the exception of the little patches of land that have been cleared by settlers, may be said to cover the whole country. The thermometer at Richmond was at 27° several times this winter.

25th. We returned to Richmond, and called upon John H. Butcher, a magistrate, residing in an unfinished stone


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Rh "After the choking and stifling had passed away, I seemed at first in a state of utter blankness; then came flashes of intense light, alternating with blackness, and with a keen vision of what was going on in the room around me, but no sensation of touch. I thought that I was near death; when, suddenly, my soul became aware of God, who was manifestly dealing with me, handling me, so to speak, in an intense personal present reality. I felt him streaming in like light upon me. … I cannot describe the ecstasy I felt. Then, as I gradually awoke from the influence of the anæsthetics, the old sense of my relation to the world began to return, the new sense of my relation to God began to fade. I suddenly leapt to my feet on the chair where I was sitting, and shrieked out, 'It is too horrible, it is too horrible, it is too horrible,' meaning that I could not bear this disillusionment. Then I flung myself on the ground, and at last awoke covered with blood, calling to the two surgeons (who were frightened), 'Why did you not kill me? Why would you not let me die?' Only think of it. To have felt for that long dateless ecstasy of vision the very God, in all purity and tenderness and truth and absolute love, and then to find that I had after all had no revelation, but that I had been tricked by the abnormal excitement of my brain.


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 many of the facts that seem at first to disconcert his peace, to adopt this way of escape. Refuse to admit their badness; despise their power; ignore their presence; turn your attention the other way; and so far as you yourself are concerned at any rate, though the facts may still exist, their evil character exists no longer. Since you make them evil or good by your own thoughts about them, it is the ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

The deliberate adoption of an optimistic turn of mind thus makes its entrance into philosophy. And once in, it is hard to trace its lawful bounds. Not only does the human instinct for happiness, bent on self-protection by ignoring, keep working in its favor, but higher inner ideals have weighty words to say. The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance. But it is impossible to carry on this discipline in the subjective sphere without zealously emphasizing the brighter and minimizing the darker aspects of the objective sphere of things at the same time. And thus our resolution not to indulge in misery, beginning at a comparatively small point within ourselves, may not stop until it has brought the entire frame of reality under a systematic conception optimistic enough to be congenial with its needs.

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392 "Yet, this question remains, Is it possible that the inner sense of reality which succeeded, when my flesh was dead to impressions from without, to the ordinary sense of physical relations, was not a delusion but an actual experience? Is it possible that I, in that moment, felt what some of the saints have said they always felt, the undemonstrable but irrefragable certainty of God?" Op. cit., pp. 78-80, abridged. I subjoin, also abridging it, another interesting anæsthetic revelation communicated to me in manuscript by a friend in England. The subject, a gifted woman, was taking ether for a surgical operation.

"I wondered if I was in a prison being tortured, and why I remembered having heard it said that people 'learn through suffering,' and in view of what I was seeing, the inadequacy of this saying struck me so much that I said, aloud, 'to suffer is to learn.'

"With that I became unconscious again, and my last dream immediately preceded my real coming to. It only lasted a few seconds, and was most vivid and real to me, though it may not be clear in words.

"A great Being or Power was traveling through the sky, his foot was on a kind of lightning as a wheel is on a rail, it was his pathway. The lightning was made entirely of the spirits of innumerable people close to one another, and I was one of them. He moved in a straight line, and each part of the streak or flash came into its short conscious existence only that he might travel. I seemed to be directly under the foot of God, and I thought he was grinding his own life up out of my pain. Then I saw that what he had been trying with all his might to do was to change his course, to bend the line of lightning to which he was tied, in the direction in which he wanted to go. I felt my flexibility and helplessness, and knew that he would succeed. He bended me, turning his corner by means of my hurt, hurting me more than I had ever been hurt in my life, and at the acutest point of this, as he passed, I saw. I understood for a moment things that I have now forgotten, things that no one could remember while retaining sanity. The angle was an obtuse angle, and I remember thinking as I woke that had he made it a right or acute angle, I should have both suffered and 'seen' still more, and should probably have died.

"He went on and I came to. In that moment the whole of my life passed before me, including each little meaningless piece of distress, and I understood them. This was what it had all meant, this was the piece of work it had all been contributing to do. I did not see God's purpose, I only saw his intentness and his entire relentlessness towards his means. He thought no more of me than a man thinks of hurting a cork when he is opening wine, or hurting a cartridge when he is firing. And yet, on waking, my first feeling was, and it came with tears, 'Domine non sum digna,' for I had been lifted into a position for which I was too small. I realized


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Rh With this we make connection with religious mysticism pure and simple. Symonds's question takes us back to those examples which you will remember my quoting in the lecture on the Reality of the Unseen, of sudden realization of the immediate presence of God. The phenomenon in one shape or another is not uncommon.

"I know," writes Mr. Trine, "an officer on our police force who has told me that many times when off duty, and on his way home in the evening, there comes to him such a vivid and vital realization of his oneness with this Infinite Power, and this Spirit of Infinite Peace so takes hold of and so fills him,

that in that half hour under ether I had served God more distinctly and purely than I had ever done in my life before, or than I am capable of desiring to do. I was the means of his achieving and revealing something, I know not what or to whom, and that, to the exact extent of my capacity for suffering.

"While regaining consciousness, I wondered why, since I had gone so deep, I had seen nothing of what the saints call the love of God, nothing but his relentlessness. And then I heard an answer, which I could only just catch, saying, 'Knowledge and Love are One, and the measure is suffering'—I give the words as they came to me. With that I came finally to (into what seemed a dream world compared with the reality of what I was leaving), and I saw that what would be called the 'cause' of my experience was a slight operation under insufficient ether, in a bed pushed up against a window, a common city window in a common city street. If I had to formulate a few of the things I then caught a glimpse of, they would run somewhat as follows:—

"The eternal necessity of suffering and its eternal vicariousness. The veiled and incommunicable nature of the worst sufferings;—the passivity of genius, how it is essentially instrumental and defenseless, moved, not moving, it must do what it does;—the impossibility of discovery without its price;—finally, the excess of what the suffering 'seer' or genius pays over what his generation gains. (He seems like one who sweats his life out to earn enough to save a district from famine, and just as he staggers back, dying and satisfied, bringing a lac of rupees to buy grain with, God lifts the lac away, dropping one rupee, and says, 'That you may give them. That you have earned for them. The rest is for ME.') I perceived also in a way never to be forgotten, the excess of what we see over what we can demonstrate.

"And so on!—these things may seem to you delusions, or truisms; but for me they are dark truths, and the power to put them into even such words as these has been given me by an ether dream."


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90 persuasion that the total frame of things absolutely must be good. Such mystical persuasion plays an enormous part in the history of the religious consciousness, and we must look at it later with some care. But we need not go so far at present. More ordinary non-mystical conditions of rapture suffice for my immediate contention. All invasive moral states and passionate enthusiasms make one feelingless to evil in some direction. The common penalties cease to deter the patriot, the usual prudences are flung by the lover to the winds. When the passion is extreme, suffering may actually be gloried in, provided it be for the ideal cause, death may lose its sting, the grave its victory. In these states, the ordinary contrast of good and ill seems to be swallowed up in a higher denomination, an omnipotent excitement which engulfs the evil, and which the human being welcomes as the crowning experience of his life. This, he says, is truly to live, and I exult in the heroic opportunity and adventure.

The systematic cultivation of healthy-mindedness as a religious attitude is therefore consonant with important currents in human nature, and is anything but absurd. In fact, we all do cultivate it more or less, even when our professed theology should in consistency forbid it. We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; and the slaughter-houses and indecencies without end on which our life is founded are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer and cleaner and better than the world that really is.


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Rh EPISTLE FROM MR. MURRAY TO DR. POLIDORI.

Doctor, I have read your play,

Which is a good one in its way,—

Purges the eyes, and moves the bowels,

And drenches handkerchiefs like towels

With tears, that, in a flux of grief,

Afford hysterical relief

To shattered nerves and quickened pulses,

Which your catastrophe convulses.

I like your moral and machinery;

Your plot, too, has such scope for Scenery!

Your dialogue is apt and smart;

The play's concoction full of art;

Your hero raves, your heroine cries

All stab, and every body dies.

In short, your tragedy would be

The very thing to hear and see:

And for a piece of publication,

If I decline on this occasion,

It is not that I am not sensible

To merits in themselves ostensible,

But—and I grieve to speak it—plays

Are drugs—mere drugs, Sir—now-a-days.


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Rh The advance of liberalism, so-called, in Christianity, during the past fifty years, may fairly be called a victory of healthy-mindedness within the church over the morbidness with which the old hell-fire theology was more harmoniously related. We have now whole congregations whose preachers, far from magnifying our consciousness of sin, seem devoted rather to making little of it. They ignore, or even deny, eternal punishment, and insist on the dignity rather than on the depravity of man. They look at the continual preoccupation of the old-fashioned Christian with the salvation of his soul as something sickly and reprehensible rather than admirable; and a sanguine and 'muscular' attitude, which to our forefathers would have seemed purely heathen, has become in their eyes an ideal element of Christian character. I am not asking whether or not they are right, I am only pointing out the change.

The persons to whom I refer have still retained for the most part their nominal connection with Christianity, in spite of their discarding of its more pessimistic theological elements. But in that 'theory of evolution' which, gathering momentum for a century, has within the past twenty-five years swept so rapidly over Europe and America, we see the ground laid for a new sort of religion of Nature, which has entirely displaced Christianity from the thought of a large part of our generation. The idea of a universal evolution lends itself to a doctrine of general meliorism and progress which fits the religious needs of the healthy-minded so well that it seems almost as if it might have been created for their use. Accordingly we find 'evolutionism' interpreted thus optimistically and


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 embraced as a substitute for the religion they were born in, by a multitude of our contemporaries who have either been trained scientifically, or been fond of reading popular science, and who had already begun to be inwardly dissatisfied with what seemed to them the harshness and irrationality of the orthodox Christian scheme. As examples are better than descriptions, I will quote a document received in answer to Professor Starbuck's circular of questions. The writer's state of mind may by courtesy be called a religion, for it is his reaction on the whole nature of things, it is systematic and reflective, and it loyally binds him to certain inner ideals. I think you will recognize in him, coarse-meated and incapable of wounded spirit as he is, a sufficiently familiar contemporary type.

Q. What does Religion mean to you?

A. It means nothing; and it seems, so far as I can observe, useless to others. I am sixty-seven years of age and have resided in X. fifty years, and have been in business forty-five, consequently I have some little experience of life and men, and some women too, and I find that the most religious and pious people are as a rule those most lacking in uprightness and morality. The men who do not go to church or have any religious convictions are the best. Praying, singing of hymns, and sermonizing are—pernicious they teach us to rely on some supernatural power, when we ought to rely on ourselves. I teetotally disbelieve in a God. The God-idea was begotten in ignorance, fear, and a general lack of any knowledge of Nature. If I were to die now, being in a healthy condition for my age, both mentally and physically, I would just as lief, yes, rather, die with a hearty enjoyment of music, sport, or any other rational pastime. As a timepiece stops, we die—there being no immortality in either case.

Q. What comes before your mind corresponding to the words God, Heaven, Angels, etc.?

A. Nothing whatever. I am a man without a religion. These words mean so much mythic bosh.


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48 I had a heavy loss by Manuel—

Too lucky if it prove not annual,—

And Sotheby, with his Orestes,

(Which, by the way, the old Bore's best is,

Has lain so very long on hand,

That I despair of all demand;

I've advertised, but see my books,

Or only watch my Shopman's looks;—

Still Ivan, Ina, and such lumber,

My back-shop glut, my shelves encumber.

There's Byron too, who once did better,

Has sent me, folded in a letter,

A sort of—it's no more a drama

Than Darnley, Ivan, or Kehama;

So altered since last year his pen is,

I think he's lost his wits at Venice.

In short, Sir, what with one and t' other,

I dare not venture on another.

I write in haste; excuse each blunder;

The Coaches through the street so thunder!

My room's so full—we've Gifford here

Reading MS., with Hookham Frere,


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 Q. Have you had any experiences which appeared providential?

A. None whatever. There is no agency of the superintending kind. A little judicious observation as well as knowledge of scientific law will convince any one of this fact.

Q. What things work most strongly on your emotions?

A. Lively songs and music; Pinafore instead of an Oratorio. I like Scott, Burns, Byron, Longfellow, especially Shakespeare, etc., etc. Of songs, the Star-spangled Banner, America, Marseillaise, and all moral and soul-stirring songs, but wishy-washy hymns are my detestation. I greatly enjoy nature, especially fine weather, and until within a few years used to walk Sundays into the country, twelve miles often, with no fatigue, and bicycle forty or fifty. I have dropped the bicycle. I never go to church, but attend lectures when there are any good ones. All of my thoughts and cogitations have been of a healthy and cheerful kind, for instead of doubts and fears I see things as they are, for I endeavor to adjust myself to my environment. This I regard as the deepest law. Mankind is a progressive animal. I am satisfied he will have made a great advance over his present status a thousand years hence.

Q. What is your notion of sin?

A. It seems to me that sin is a condition, a disease, incidental to man's development not being yet advanced enough. Morbidness over it increases the disease. We should think that a million of years hence equity, justice, and mental and physical good order will be so fixed and organized that no one will have any idea of evil or sin.

Q. What is your temperament?

A. Nervous, active, wide-awake, mentally and physically. Sorry that Nature compels us to sleep at all.

If we are in search of a broken and a contrite heart, clearly we need not look to this brother. His contentment with the finite incases him like a lobster-shell and shields him from all morbid repining at his distance from the Infinite. We have in him an excellent example of the optimism which may be encouraged by popular science.


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 To my mind a current far more important and interesting religiously than that which sets in from natural science towards healthy-mindedness is that which has recently poured over America and seems to be gathering force every day,—I am ignorant what foothold it may yet have acquired in Great Britain,—and to which, for the sake of having a brief designation, I will give the title of the 'Mind-cure movement.' There are various sects of this 'New Thought,' to use another of the names by which it calls itself; but their agreements are so profound that their differences may be neglected for my present purpose, and I will treat the movement, without apology, as if it were a simple thing.

It is a deliberately optimistic scheme of life, with both a speculative and a practical side. In its gradual development during the last quarter of a century, it has taken up into itself a number of contributory elements, and it must now be reckoned with as a genuine religious power. It has reached the stage, for example, when the demand for its literature is great enough for insincere stuff, mechanically produced for the market, to be to a certain extent supplied by publishers,—a phenomenon never observed, I imagine, until a religion has got well past its earliest insecure beginning's.

One of the doctrinal sources of Mind-cure is the four Gospels; another is Emersonianism or New England transcendentalism; another is Berkeleyan idealism; another is spiritism, with its messages of 'law' and 'progress' and 'development'; another the optimistic popular science evolutionism of which I have recently spoken; and, finally, Hinduism has contributed a strain. But the most characteristic feature of the mind-cure movement is an inspiration much more direct. The leaders in this faith have had an intuitive belief in the all-saving power


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84 in so barren a form. Many readers will no doubt miss from the volume much interesting matter which the author could present in a very agreeable manner, but others, not the least thoughtful, would prefer that the more relevant and important aspects of the subject were always kept to the front even at the expense of a still further suppression of the picturesque side of Argyllshire names and of Dr. Gillies’s mind. Among the many requisites for a full and fitting explanation of our topography is a chastened fancy; but other and more prosaic qualities are still more essential. Adequate knowledge of the roots, sounds, forms, and structure of the languages concerned must be brought to bear upon the names, and the results must be presented with clearness and, above all, with accuracy, without bias or prejudice of any sort. A work done on such lines possesses a fascination and eloquence which do not depend in the smallest degree upon rhetoric and hyperbole. In this volume we are too often brought within the domain of ‘feeling,’ ‘atmosphere,’ ‘suggestion,’ ‘belief’—attractive regions, no doubt, but delusive when discussing scientific problems. It is much to be feared that this mental or rather moral attitude has biassed the author’s judgment with regard to several important questions.

For example. The early movements of races, in Argyllshire as elsewhere, are largely unknown. But in so far as names throw light on this obscure subject there are certain conclusions forced upon us which Dr. Gillies fails to recognise. According to him, apart from a few ‘bed-rock names which are the despair of the historian and the linguistic historian particularly,’ by which presumably he means pre-Celtic names, Gaelic ‘has been there from the beginning. . . . It is written in the rock.’ Now our oldest names come to us from the Greek and Roman writers. A few of these, in respect of form, may be explained, in so far as the Celtic language can reliably explain them, from the Gaelic side, but the greater number are undoubtedly British rather than Gaelic. Especially significant is the Ptolemaic name Epidion, Epidii, in Kintyre and Knapdale. Unless we assume that the person who gave this name to the Roman officer who in turn gave it to Ptolemy was not only a Briton, which is practically certain, but also that he changed the Gaelic form Echid- to his own Epid-, which we are hardly entitled to do, we are driven to the conclusion that the Pict was, in language as in blood, in that district before the Gael; that it is the former rather than the latter who is entitled to say that he was there ‘from the beginning,’ with his speech ‘written in the rock.’ Nor does this old name stand alone. Dr. Gillies on several occasions hints at a possible British element in the Argyll names, but he instances only Nant, possibly Gilp. Nant, in the map form, is plainly British, but if, as is probable, the name as written stands for An Eannda it may well be Gaelic. One or two names can be added, the British origin of which is beyond doubt Several terminals, found chiefly in the parts of the county bordering on Pictland, must be identical with the same suffixes so common in the north and east of Scotland. Further there is a Tir-a-fùir in Lismore, a Penny-fùir near Oban, and an Aird-a-fùir near Crinan. Dr. Gillies (p. 60)

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Rh Pronouncing on the nouns and particles,

Of some of our forthcoming Articles.

The Quarterly—Ah, Sir, if you

Had but the Genius to review!—

A smart Critique upon St. Helena,

Or if you only would but tell in a

Short compass what——but to resume;

As I was saying, Sir, the Room—

The Room's so full of wits and bards,

Crabbes, Campbells, Crokers, Freres, and Wards

And others, neither bards nor wits:

My humble tenement admits

All persons in the dress of Gent.,

From Mr. Hammond to Dog Dent.

A party dines with me to-day,

All clever men, who make their way:

Crabbe, Malcolm, Hamilton, and Chantrey,

Are all partakers of my pantry.

They're at this moment in discussion

On poor De Staël's late dissolution.

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 of healthy-minded attitudes as such, in the conquering efficacy of courage, hope, and trust, and a correlative contempt for doubt, fear, worry, and all nervously precautionary states of mind. Their belief has in a general way been corroborated by the practical experience of their disciples; and this experience forms to-day a mass imposing in amount.

The blind have been made to see, the halt to walk; lifelong invalids have had their health restored. The moral fruits have been no less remarkable. The deliberate adoption of a healthy-minded attitude has proved possible to many who never supposed they had it in them; regeneration of character has gone on on an extensive scale; and cheerfulness has been restored to countless homes. The indirect influence of this has been great. The mind-cure principles are beginning so to pervade the air that one catches their spirit at second-hand. One hears of the 'Gospel of Relaxation,' of the 'Don't Worry Movement,' of people who repeat to themselves, 'Youth, health, vigor!' when dressing in the morning, as their motto for the day. Complaints of the weather are getting to be forbidden in many households; and more and more people are recognizing it to be bad form to speak of disagreeable sensations, or to make much of the ordinary inconveniences and ailments of life. These general tonic effects on public opinion would be good even if the more striking results were non-existent. But the latter abound so that we can afford to overlook the


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50 Pray Heaven, she tell the truth of France!

'T is said she certainly was married

To Rocca, and had twice miscarried,

No—not miscarried, I opine,—

But brought to bed at forty-nine.

Some say she died a Papist; some

Are of opinion that's a Hum;

I don't know that—the fellows Schlegel,

Are very likely to inveigle

A dying person in compunction

To try th' extremity of Unction.

But peace be with her! for a woman

Her talents surely were uncommon,

Her Publisher (and Public too)

The hour of her demise may rue—

For never more within his shop he—

Pray—Was not she interred at Coppet?

Thus run our time and tongues away;—

But, to return, Sir, to your play:

Sorry, Sir, but I cannot deal,

Unless 't were acted by O'Neill.

My hands are full—my head so busy,

I'm almost dead—and always dizzy;

And so, with endless truth and hurry,

Dear Doctor, I am yours, . August 21, 1817. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 139-141. Lines 67-82 first published, Letters, 1900, iv. 161.]


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266 leadairt a cheile gus an robh beul an ath-dhath ’s an anmoich ann. [Dheanadh iad creagan de ’n bhogan agus bogan de ’n chreagan; na clacha beaga dol an iochdar ’s na clacha mora teachd an uachdar; an t-aite bu lugha rachadb iad fodha rachadh iad fodha chon a’ ghlùine, ’s an t-aite bu mhotha rachadh iad fodha rachadh iad fodha chon an sgròbain.] Smaointich Graisgeach na Sgeithe Deirge gun robh e fad o chairdean ’s fagus d’ a naimhdean, ’s thug e an togail bheag shoilleir ud air, ’s bhuail e ris an talamh e. Thug ordag a choise sanas do bhun a chluaise, agus sgath e dheth an ceann. ‘Ged is mi rinn so cha mhi gheall e,’ ars’ esan. Thug e ’n lamh o ’n ghualainn deth, ’s thug e ’n cridhe as a chom, ’s thug e ’n ceann bharr a mhuineil. Chuir e lamh am pòc a’ ghaisgich mhairbh, ’s fhuair e tri fiaclan seann eich ann, ’s leis an deifir, ghabh e ’n aite fiaclan an righ iad, ’s thug e leis iad. Chaidh e gu tom coille, ’s bhuain e gad, ’s cheangail e air an lamh ’s an cridhe ’s an ceann. (Ri leantainn.)

giving a list of some among the best known submerged cities, Celtic and other, I shall reserve for last the city now popularly placed in Cardigan Bay. Loch Ericht, in Inverness-shire, is due to an invocation of the Devil. The young blades (such as those that frequented the Hell Fire Club of the Dublin mountains on the road from Rathfarnham, or Pope’s Bubb Dodington), that would fiedn invoke the Fiend, were put off by a young man of Lochaber. ‘Before morning,’


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 Here is another case, more concrete, also that of a woman. I read you these cases without comment, they express so many varieties of the state of mind we are studying.

"I had been a sufferer from my childhood till my fortieth year. [Details of ill-health are given which I omit.] I had been in Vermont several months hoping for good from the change of air, but steadily growing weaker, when one day during the latter part of October, while resting in the afternoon, I suddenly heard as it were these words: 'You will be healed and do a work you never dreamed of.' These words were impressed upon my mind with such power I said at once that only God could have put them there. I believed them in spite of myself and of my suffering and weakness, which continued until Christmas, when I returned to Boston. Within two days a young friend offered to take me to a mental healer (this was January 7, 1881). The healer said: 'There is nothing but Mind; we are expressions of the One Mind; body is only a mortal belief; as a man thinketh so is he.' I could not accept all she said, but I translated all that was there for me in this way: 'There is nothing but God; I am created by Him, and am absolutely dependent upon Him; mind is given me to use; and by just so much of it as I will put upon the thought of right action in body I shall be lifted out of bondage to my ignorance and fear and past experience.' That day I commenced accordingly to take a little of every food provided for the family, constantly saying to myself: 'The Power that created the stomach must take care of what I have eaten.' By holding these suggestions through the evening I went to bed and fell asleep, saying: 'I am soul, spirit, just one with God's Thought of me,' and slept all night without waking, for the first time in several years [the distress-turns had usually recurred about two o'clock in the night]. I felt the next day like an escaped prisoner, and believed I had found the secret that would in time give me perfect health. Within ten days I was able to eat anything provided for others, and after two weeks I began to have my own positive mental suggestions of Truth,


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was rather a heedless man, careless of danger. So he had endless accidents. Now, when Mrs. Morel heard the rattle of an empty coal-cart cease at her entry-end, she ran into the parlour to look, expecting almost to see her husband seated in the waggon, his face grey under his dirt, his body limp and sick with some hurt or other. If it were he, she would run out to help.

About a year after William went to London, and just after Paul had left school, before he got work, Mrs. Morel was upstairs and her son was painting in the kitchen—he was very clever with his brush—when there came a knock at the door. Crossly he put down his brush to go. At the same moment his mother opened a window upstairs and looked down.

A pit-lad in his dirt stood on the threshold.

“Is this Walter Morel’s?” he asked.

“Yes,” said Mrs. Morel. “What is it?”

But she had guessed already.

“Your mester’s got hurt,” he said.

“Eh, dear me!” she exclaimed. “It’s a wonder if he hadn’t, lad. And what’s he done this time?”

“I don’t know for sure, but it’s ’is leg somewhere. They ta’ein’ ’im ter th’ ’ospital.”

“Good gracious me!” she exclaimed. “Eh, dear, what a one he is! There’s not five minutes of peace, I’ll be hanged if there is! His thumb’s nearly better, and now—— Did you see him?”

“I seed him at th’ bottom. An’ I seed ’em bring ’im up in a tub, an’ ’e wor in a dead faint. But he shouted like anythink when Doctor Fraser examined him i’ th’ lamp cabin-an’ cossed an’ swore, an’ said as ’e wor goin’ to be ta’en whoam—’e worn’t goin’ ter th’ ’ospital.”

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 which were to me like stepping-stones. I will note a few of them; they came about two weeks apart.

"1st. I am Soul, therefore it is well with me.

"2d. I am Soul, therefore I am well.

"3d. A sort of inner vision of myself as a four-footed beast with a protuberance on every part of my body where I had suffering, with my own face, begging me to acknowledge it as myself. I resolutely fixed my attention on being well, and refused to even look at my old self in this form.

"4th. Again the vision of the beast far in the background, with faint voice. Again refusal to acknowledge.

"5th. Once more the vision, but only of my eyes with the longing look; and again the refusal. Then came the conviction, the inner consciousness, that I was perfectly well and always had been, for I was Soul, an expression of God's Perfect Thought. That was to me the perfect and completed separation between what I was and what I appeared to be. I succeeded in never losing sight after this of my real being, by constantly affirming this truth, and by degrees (though it took me two years of hard work to get there) I expressed health continuously throughout my whole body.

"In my subsequent nineteen years' experience I have never known this Truth to fail when I applied it, though in my ignorance I have often failed to apply it, but through my failures I have learned the simplicity and trustfulness of the little child."

But I fear that I risk tiring you by so many examples, and I must lead you back to philosophic generalities again. You see already by such records of experience how impossible it is not to class mind-cure as primarily a religious movement. Its doctrine of the oneness of our life with God's life is in fact quite indistinguishable from an interpretation of Christ's message which in these very Gifford lectures has been defended by some of your very ablest Scottish religious philosophers.


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 But philosophers usually profess to give a quasi-logical explanation of the existence of evil, whereas of the general fact of evil in the world, the existence of the selfish, suffering, timorous finite consciousness, the mind-curers, so far as I am acquainted with them, profess to give no speculative explanation. Evil is empirically there for them as it is for everybody, but the practical point of view predominates, and it would ill agree with the spirit of their system to spend time in worrying over it as a 'mystery' or 'problem,' or in 'laying to heart' the lesson of its experience, after the manner of the Evangelicals. Don't reason about it, as Dante says, but give a glance and pass beyond! It is Avidhya, ignorance! something merely to be outgrown and left behind, transcended and forgotten. Christian Science so-called, the sect of Mrs. Eddy, is the most radical branch of mind-cure in its dealings with evil. For it evil is simply a lie,


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252 cross in the sky. The last case but one which I quoted mentions floods of light and glory. Henry Alline mentions a light, about whose externality he seems uncertain. Colonel Gardiner sees a blazing light. President Finney writes:—

Such reports of photisms are indeed far from uncommon. Here is another from Starbuck's collection, where the light appeared evidently external:—

Here is another one of Starbuck's cases, involving a luminous element:—

"I had been clearly converted twenty-three years before, or rather reclaimed. My experience in regeneration was then clear and spiritual, and I had not backslidden. But I


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Rh entire sanctification on the 15th day of March, 1893, about eleven o'clock in the morning. The particular accompaniments of the experience were entirely unexpected. I was quietly sitting at home singing selections out of Pentecostal Hymns. Suddenly there seemed to be a something sweeping into me and inflating my entire being—such a sensation as I had never experienced before. When this experience came, I seemed to be conducted around a large, capacious, well-lighted room. As I walked with my invisible conductor and looked around, a clear thought was coined in my mind, 'They are not here, they are gone.' As soon as the thought was definitely formed in my mind, though no word was spoken, the Holy Spirit impressed me that I was surveying my own soul. Then, for the first time in all my life, did I know that I was cleansed from all sin, and filled with the fullness of God."

Leuba quotes the case of a Mr. Peek, where the luminous affection reminds one of the chromatic hallucinations produced by the intoxicant cactus buds called mescal by the Mexicans:—


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254 The most characteristic of all the elements of the conversion crisis, and the last one of which I shall speak, is the ecstasy of happiness produced. We have already heard several accounts of it, but I will add a couple more. President Finney's is so vivid that I give it at length:—

"All my feelings seemed to rise and flow out; and the utterance of my heart was, 'I want to pour my whole soul out to God.' The rising of my soul was so great that I rushed into the back room of the front office, to pray. There was no fire and no light in the room; nevertheless it appeared to me as if it were perfectly light. As I went in and shut the door after me, it seemed as if I met the Lord Jesus Christ face to face. It did not occur to me then, nor did it for some time afterwards, that it was wholly a mental state. On the contrary, it seemed to me that I saw him as I would see any other man. He said nothing, but looked at me in such a manner as to break me


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Rh right down at his feet. I have always since regarded this as a most remarkable state of mind; for it seemed to me a reality that he stood before me, and I fell down at his feet and poured out my soul to him. I wept aloud like a child, and made such confessions as I could with my choked utterance. It seemed to me that I bathed his feet with my tears; and yet I had no distinct impression that I touched him, that I recollect. I must have continued in this state for a good while; but my mind was too much absorbed with the interview to recollect anything that I said. But I know, as soon as my mind became calm enough to break off from the interview, I returned to the front office, and found that the fire that I had made of large wood was nearly burned out. But as I turned and was about to take a seat by the fire, I received a mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost. Without any expectation of it, without ever having the thought in my mind that there was any such thing for me, without any recollection that I had ever heard the thing mentioned by any person in the world, the Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner that seemed to go through me, body and soul. I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed, it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love; for I could not express it in any other way. It seemed like the very breath of God. I can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan me, like immense wings.

"No words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in my heart. I wept aloud with joy and love; and I do not know but I should say I literally bellowed out the unutterable gushings of my heart. These waves came over me, and over me, and over me, one after the other, until I recollect I cried out, 'I shall die if these waves continue to pass over me.' I said, 'Lord, I cannot bear any more;' yet I had no fear of death.

"How long I continued in this state, with this baptism continuing to roll over me and go through me, I do not know. But I know it was late in the evening when a member of my choir—for I was the leader of the choir—came into the office to see me. He was a member of the church. He found me


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256 in this state of loud weeping, and said to me, 'Mr. Finney, what ails you?' I could make him no answer for some time. He then said, 'Are you in pain?' I gathered myself up as best I could, and replied, 'No, but so happy that I cannot live.'"

I just now quoted Billy Bray; I cannot do better than give his own brief account of his post-conversion feelings:—

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8 Since now thou put'st thyself and work to Sea

And leav'st all Greece to Fletcher and to me,

Oh, hear my single muse our sorrows tell,

One song for self and Fletcher quite as well—

First to the Castle of that man of woes

Dispatch the letter which I must enclose,

And when his lone Penelope shall say

Why, where, and wherefore doth my William stay?

Spare not to move her pity, or her pride—

By all that Hero suffered, or defied;

The chicken's toughness, and the lack of ale

The stoney mountain and the miry vale

The Garlick steams, which half his meals enrich,

The impending vermin, and the threatened Itch,

That ever breaking Bed, beyond repair!

The hat too old, the coat too cold to wear,

The Hunger, which repulsed from Sally's door

Pursues her grumbling half from shore to shore,

Be these the themes to greet his faithful Rib

So may thy pen be smooth, thy tongue be glib!

This duty done, let me in turn demand

Some friendly office in my native land,

Yet let me ponder well, before I ask,

And set thee swearing at the tedious task.

First the Miscellany! —to Southwell town

Per coach for Mrs. Pigot frank it down,


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Rh So may'st thou prosper in the paths of Sale,

And Longman smirk and critics cease to rail.

All hail to Matthews! wash his reverend feet,

And in my name the man of Method greet,—

Tell him, my Guide, Philosopher, and Friend,

Who cannot love me, and who will not mend,

Tell him, that not in vain I shall assay

To tread and trace our "old Horatian way,"

And be (with prose supply my dearth of rhymes)

What better men have been in better times.

Here let me cease, for why should I prolong

My notes, and vex a Singer with a Song?

Oh thou with pen perpetual in thy fist!

Dubbed for thy sins a stark Miscellanist,

So pleased the printer's orders to perform

For Messrs. Longman, Hurst and Rees and Orme.

Go—Get thee hence to Paternoster Row,

Thy patrons wave a duodecimo!

(Best form for letters from a distant land,

It fits the pocket, nor fatigues the hand.)

Then go, once more the joyous work commence

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10 Oh may Mammas relent, and Sires forgive!

And scribbling Sons grow dutiful and live! Constantinople, June 7th., 1810. [First published, Murray's Magazine, 1887, vol. i. pp. 290, 291.]

TRANSLATION OF THE NURSE'S DOLE IN THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES.

MY EPITAPH.

, Nature, and relenting Jove,

To keep my lamp in strongly strove;


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Rh But Romanelli was so stout,

He beat all three—and blew it out. October, 1810. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 240.]

SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EPITAPH.

EPITAPH FOR JOSEPH BLACKET, LATE POET AND SHOEMAKER.

! behold, interred together,

The souls of learning and of leather.

Poor Joe is gone, but left his all:

You'll find his relics in a stall.

His works were neat, and often found

Well stitched, and with morocco bound.

Tread lightly—where the bard is laid—

He cannot mend the shoe he made;

Yet is he happy in his hole,

With verse immortal as his sole.

But still to business he held fast,

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12 Then who shall say so good a fellow

Was only "leather and prunella?"

For character—he did not lack it;

And if he did, 'twere shame to "Black-it." Malta, May 16, 1811. [First published, Lord Byron's Works, 1832, ix. 10.]

ON MOORE'S LAST OPERATIC FARCE, OR FARCICAL OPERA.

[R. C. DALLAS.]

! wisdom shines in all his mien,

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Rh That she'd discard her fav'rite owl,

And take for pet a brother fowl,

Sagacious R. C. Dallas. [First published, Life, Writings, Opinions, etc., 1825, ii. 192.]

AN ODE TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL.

1.

well done Lord E——n! and better done R——r!

Britannia must prosper with councils like yours;

Hawkesbury, Harrowby, help you to guide her,

Whose remedy only must kill ere it cures:

Those villains; the Weavers, are all grown refractory,

Asking some succour for Charity's sake—

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14 2.

The rascals, perhaps, may betake them to robbing,

The dogs to be sure have got nothing to eat—

So if we can hang them for breaking a bobbin,

'T will save all the Government's money and meat:

Men are more easily made than machinery—

Stockings fetch better prices than lives—

Gibbets on Sherwood will heighten the scenery,

Shewing how Commerce, how Liberty thrives!

3.

Justice is now in pursuit of the wretches,

Grenadiers, Volunteers, Bow-street Police,

Twenty-two Regiments, a score of Jack Ketches,

Three of the Quorum and two of the Peace;

Some Lords, to be sure, would have summoned the Judges,

To take their opinion, but that they ne'er shall,

For such a concession begrudges,

So now they're condemned by no Judges at all.

4.

Some folks for certain have thought it was shocking,

When Famine appeals and when Poverty groans,

That Life should be valued at less than a stocking,

And breaking of frames lead to breaking of bones.

If it should prove so, I trust, by this token,

(And who will refuse to partake in the hope?)

That the frames of the fools may be first to be broken,

Who, when asked for a remedy, sent down a rope. [First published, Morning Chronicle, Monday, March 2, 1812.]

[See a Political Ode by Lord Byron, hitherto unknown as his production. London, John Pearson, 46, Pall Mall, 1880, 8°. See, too, Mr. Pearson's prefatory Note, pp. 5, etc.]


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Rh TO THE HONundefined Mundefined GEORGE LAMB.

[LA REVANCHE.]

1.

is no more for me to hope,

There is no more for thee to fear;

And, if I give my Sorrow scope,

That Sorrow thou shalt never hear.


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1896. area, may by order under his band grant an exemption from those provisions in respect of the persons engaged in that trade, business, branch or department, either generally or within that area.

(2.) The Secretary of State may at any time amend or revoke any such order.

(3.) Every order made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be before both Houses of Parliament, and if either House within the next forty days after the order has been so laid before that House resolves that the order ought to be annulled, the order shall, after the date of that resolution, be of no effect, without prejudice to the validity of anything done in the meantime under the order or to the making of a new order.

10. Sub-section two of section thirteen of the (which relates to the duty of inspectors) shall apply in the case of a laundry, and in the case of any place where work is given out by the occupier of a factory or workshop, or by a contractor, or sub-contractor, in like manner as it applies in the case of a factory.

11. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January Commenceone thousand eight hundred and ninety- seven.

12. This Act may be cited as the Truck Act, 1896; and the Truck Acts, 1881 and 1887, and this Act shall be construed fraction, together as one Act and may be cited collectively as the Truck Acts, 1831 to 1896.

An Act for abolishing the Court of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries. [14th August 1896.]

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1.—(1.) On the commencement of this Act the Court of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries shall cease to exist, except for the purpose of continuing and concluding proceedings pending in that court at that date, and as from that date all jurisdiction and powers of the said court and its officers shall, except as aforesaid, be transferred to and vested in such of the county courts as the Lord Chancellor may by order direct, and be exercised subject to and in accordance with rules of court for regulating the procedure in county courts.

(2.) Provision may be made by order of the Lord Chancellor—

 * (a) for determining by, to, or before what officer, or in what office, may be done anything required to be done by, to, or before any officer or in any office of the said court of the Vice- Warden;

 * (b) for transferring to a county court any proceedings pending in the said court at the commencement of this Act;

 * (c) for determining the place of sitting for the exercise of any jurisdiction transferred by this Act;


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364 :(d) with respect to the use and disposal of any property which at the commencement of this Act is held for the use of the said court or of any officer of the said court, and of any room or building which at that date is appropriated for the use of the said court or of the Vice- Warden, officers, and suitors thereof; and

 * (e) with respect to the custody of any records which at that date are under the custody of the said court.

2. There shall be paid to the persons who are at the commencement of this Act the Vice-Warden and officers of the Court of the Vice- Warden of the Stannaries such pensions, and on such conditions, and out of such funds (including the funds mentioned in section twenty-nine of the and any other funds available for the purpose), as may be fixed by the Treasury with the concurrence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, regard being had to the date and form of appointment, and salary attached thereto, and to the nature and length of the services of those persons and to the amount and nature of the funds available for their pensions.

3. References in any unrepealed enactment to mines subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of the Vice- Warden of the Stannaries, or within the cognizance of the said Vice-Warden, shall be construed as applying to mines which would have been subject to the jurisdiction of the said court if it had not been abolished.

4.—(1.) In the event of any dispute arising between—

 * (a) any two or more mining companies; or

 * (b) any mining company and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, or any person having any estate or interest in the mine worked by or leased to that mining company;

a judge of a county court exercising the jurisdiction of the Stannaries Court may, on the application of any party to the dispute, order that the matter in dispute be tried before himself or before an arbitrator agreed on by the parties or an officer of the court, and the, shall apply to any such reference.

(2.) For the purposes of this section the expression "mining company " shall mean any person or body of persons engaged in or formed for working mines within the stannaries.

5. The enactments described in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule. Provided that nothing in this repeal shall affect any proceedings pending in the Court of the Vice- Warden of the Stannaries at the commencement of this Act, or any appeal from the said court pending at that date.

8. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

7. This Act; may be cited as the Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act 1896


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Rh WINDSOR POETICS.

LINES COMPOSED ON THE OCCASION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT BEING SEEN STANDING BETWEEN THE COFFINS OF HENRY VIII. AND CHARLES I., IN THE ROYAL VAULT AT WINDSOR.


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36 [.]

ON A ROYAL VISIT TO THE VAULTS.

[.]

ICH DIEN.

[From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. A. H. Hallam Murray, now for the first time printed.]


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37 CONDOLATORY ADDRESS

TO SARAH COUNTESS OF JERSEY, ON THE PRINCE REGENT'S RETURNING HER PICTURE TO MRS. MEE.

the vain triumph of the imperial lord,

Whom servile Rome obeyed, and yet abhorred,

Gave to the vulgar gaze each glorious bust,

That left a likeness of the brave, or just;

What most admired each scrutinising eye

Of all that decked that passing pageantry?

What spread from face to face that wondering air?

The thought of Brutus —for his was not there!

That absence proved his worth,—that absence fixed

His memory on the longing mind, unmixed;

And more decreed his glory to endure,

Than all a gold Colossus could secure.

If thus, fair Jersey, our desiring gaze

Search for thy form, in vain and mute amaze,

Amidst those pictured charms, whose loveliness,

Bright though they be, thine own had rendered less:

If he, that, whom truth admits

Heir of his father's crown, and of his wits,

If his corrupted eye, and withered heart,

Could with thy gentle image bear to part;


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1896.


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38 That tasteless shame be his, and ours the grief,

To gaze on Beauty's band without its chief:

Yet Comfort still one selfish thought imparts,

We lose the portrait, but preserve our hearts.

What can his vaulted gallery now disclose?

A garden with all flowers—except the rose;—

A fount that only wants its living stream;

A night, with every star, save Dian's beam.

Lost to our eyes the present forms shall be,

That turn from tracing them to dream of thee;

And more on that recalled resemblance pause,

Than all he shall not force on our applause.

Long may thy yet meridian lustre shine,

With all that Virtue asks of Homage thine:

The symmetry of youth—the grace of mien—

The eye that gladdens—and the brow serene;

The glossy darkness of that clustering hair,

Which shades, yet shows that forehead more than fair!

Each glance that wins us, and the life that throws

A spell which will not let our looks repose,

But turn to gaze again, and find anew

Some charm that well rewards another view.

These are not lessened, these are still as bright,

Albeit too dazzling for a dotard's sight;

And those must wait till ev'ry charm is gone,

To please the paltry heart that pleases none;—

That dull cold sensualist, whose sickly eye

In envious dimness passed thy portrait by;

Who racked his little spirit to combine

Its hate of Freedom's loveliness, and thine. May 29, 1814. [First published in The Champion, July 31, 1814.]


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366 [14th August 1896.] Most Gracious Sovereign,

E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight himdred and ninety-seven, the sum of thirty-five million seven hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and forty-one pounds.

2. The Treasury may borrow from any person, and the Bank of England may advance to the Treasury on the credit of the said sum, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of thirty-five million seven hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and forty-one pounds, and the Treasury shall repay the moneys so borrowed, with interest not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum, out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said moneys were borrowed.

Any moneys so borrowed shall be placed to the credit of the account of the Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such fund is available.

3. All sums granted by this Act and the other Acts mentioned in Schedule (A.) annexed to this Act out of the said Consolidated


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1896. Fund towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty, for amounting, as appears by the said schedule, in the aggregate, to the sum of seventy-five million six hundred and eighty-seven thousand and fourteen pounds are appropriated and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the first of the Acts mentioned in the said Schedule (A.) for the services and purposes expressed in Schedule (B.) annexed hereto.

The abstract of schedules and schedules annexed hereto, with the notes (if any) to such schedules, shall be deemed to be part of this Act in the same manner as if they had been contained in the body thereof.

In addition to the sums hereby granted out of the Consolidated Fund, there may be applied out of any money directed under section two of the, to be applied as appropriations in aid of the grants for the services and purposes specified in Schedule B. annexed hereto, the sums respectively set forth in the last column of the said schedule.

4. If a necessity arise for incurring expenditure not provided for in the sums appropriated to naval and military services by this Act, and which it may be detrimental to the public service to postpone until provision can be made for it by Parliament in the usual course, each of the departments entrusted with the control over the said services shall forthwith make application in writing to the Treasury for their authority to defray temporarily such expenditure out of any surpluses which may have been or which may be effected by the saving of expenditure upon votes within the same department, and in such application the department shall represent to the Treasury the circumstances which may render such additional expenditure necessary and thereupon the Treasury may authorise the expenditure unprovided for as aforesaid to be temporarily defrayed out of any surpluses which may have been or which may be effected as aforesaid upon votes within the same department; and a statement showing all cases in which the naval and military departments have obtained the sanction of the Treasury to any expenditure not provided for in the respective votes aforesaid, accompanied by copies of the representations made to them by the said departments, shall be laid before the House of Commons with the appropriation accounts of navy and army services for the year, in order that such proceedings may be submitted for the sanction of Parliament, and that provision may be made for the deficiencies upon the several votes for the said services in such manner as Parliament may determine.

The Treasury shall not authorise any expenditure which may cause an exoess upon the aggregate sums appropriated by this Act for naval services and for army services respectively.

5. Whereas the Treasury, under the powers vested in them by the have authorised expenditure not provided for in the sums appropriated by the said Act to certain votes for naval and military services for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-


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368 five to be temporarily defrayed out of surpluses ejected by the saving of expenditure on other votes for naval and military services for the said year; vis. It is enacted that the application of the said sums is hereby sanctioned

6. A person shall not receive any part of a grant which may be made in pursuance of this Act for half -pay or army, navy, or civil non-effective services, until he has subscribed such declaration as may from time to time be prescribed by a warrant of the Treasury before one of the persons prescribed by such warrant.

Provided that, whenever any such payment is made at more frequent intervals than once in a quarter, the Treasury may dispense with the production of more than one declaration in respect of each quarter.

Any person who makes a declaration for the purpose of this section, knowing the same to be untrue in any material particular, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

7. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Appropriation Act, 1896.


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Rh 5.

To me, divine Apollo, grant—O!

Hermilda's first and second canto,

I'm fitting up a new portmanteau;

6.

And thus to furnish decent lining,

My own and others' bays I'm twining,—

So, gentle Thurlow, throw me thine in. June 2, 1813. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 396.]

TO LORD THURLOW.

1.

"I lay my branch of laurel down."

lay thy branch of laurel down!"

Why, what thou'st stole is not enow;

And, were it lawfully thine own,

Does Rogers want it most, or thou?

Keep to thyself thy withered bough,

Or send it back to Doctor Donne:


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20 Were justice done to both, I trow,

He'd have but little, and thou—none.

2.

"Then, thus, to form Apollo's crown."

A crown! why, twist it how you will,

Thy chaplet must be foolscap still.

When next you visit Delphi's town,

Enquire amongst your fellow-lodgers,

They'll tell you Phœbus gave his crown,

Some years before your birth, to Rogers.

3.

"Let every other bring his own."

When coals to Newcastle are carried,

And owls sent to Athens, as wonders,

From his spouse when the Regent's unmarried,

Or Liverpool weeps o'er his blunders;

When Tories and Whigs cease to quarrel,

When Castlereagh's wife has an heir,

Then Rogers shall ask us for laurel,

And thou shalt have plenty to spare. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 397.]


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Author:George Green (1793-1841)

Works

 * An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism, 1828
 * Mathematical Investigations concerning the Laws of the Equilibrium of Fluids analogous to the Electric Fluid, 1833
 * On the Determination of the Exterior and Interior Attractions of Ellipsoids of Variable Densities, 1835
 * Researches on the Vibration of Pendulums in Fluid Media, 1836
 * On the Motion of Waves in a Variable Canal of Small Width and Depth, 1838
 * On the Reflexion and Refraction of Sound, 1838
 * On the Laws of Relexion and Refraction of Light at the common Surface of two non-crystallized Media, 1838
 * Note on the Motion of Waves in Canals, 1839
 * Supplement to a Memoir on the Reflexion and Refraction of Light, 1839
 * On the Propagation of Light in Crystallized Media, 1839
 * Above collected in Mathematical Papers of the late George Green. Edited by N. M. Ferrers. 1871.

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Rh THE DEVIL'S DRIVE.

1.

Devil returned to Hell by two,

And he stayed at home till five;

When he dined on some homicides done in ragoût,

And a rebel or so in an Irish stew,

And sausages made of a self-slain Jew,

And bethought himself what next to do,

"And," quoth he, "I'll take a drive.

I walked in the morning, I'll ride to-night;

In darkness my children take most delight,

And I'll see how my favourites thrive.

2.

And what shall I ride in?" quoth Lucifer, then—

"If I followed my taste, indeed,

I should mount in a waggon of wounded men,

And smile to see them bleed.

But these will be furnished again and again,

And at present my purpose is speed;


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22 To see my manor as much as I may,

And watch that no souls shall be poached away.

3.

"I have a state-coach at Carlton House,

A chariot in Seymour-place;

But they're lent to two friends, who make me amends

By driving my favourite pace:

And they handle their reins with such a grace,

I have something for both at the end of the race.

4.

"So now for the earth to take my chance."

Then up to the earth sprung he;

And making a jump from Moscow to France,

He stepped across the sea,

And rested his hoof on a turnpike road,

No very great way from a Bishop's abode.

5.

But first as he flew, I forgot to say,

That he hovered a moment upon his way,

To look upon Leipsic plain;


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SCHEDULE (A.)


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370


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1896.

granted to defray the charges for the Services herein particularly mentioned for the year ended on the 31st day of March 1896 ; viz. :—


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Numbers in left margins
The person-numbers should be done with the following (note the two empty lines before, and don't forget Sidenotes begin and end):

Person Name...

And the chapter pages wrapped thus:

Test Ebor.
Just a note, for future linking maybe, that the footnotes such as "Test Ebor. V. 287." refer to Testamenta eboracensia; or, Wills registered at York, illustrative of the history, manners, language, statistics, &c., of the province of York, from the year 1300 downwards of which there seem to be half a dozen volumes or so. Some are on IA: I've not really looked into this in any great depth. Might come back to it. — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 07:16, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * https://archive.org/details/testamentaeborac01york Part I?
 * https://archive.org/details/testamentaebora00claygoog Part II? (the IA item says Vol. 30, but that's of a different set)
 * https://archive.org/details/testamentaebora00socigoog Vol. IV
 * https://archive.org/details/selectionwillsyo05surtuoft Vol. V
 * https://archive.org/details/testamentaebora08claygoog Vol. VI
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372

of granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the  herein particularly mentioned, which will come in coarse of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1897; viz.:—


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1896.


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Rh old, lose our faculties, and again become childlike; while crowning all is the fear of death. Then there is a long line of particular fears and trouble-bearing expectations, such, for example, as ideas associated with certain articles of food, the dread of the east wind, the terrors of hot weather, the aches and pains associated with cold weather, the fear of catching cold if one sits in a draught, the coming of hay-fever upon the 14th of August in the middle of the day, and so on through a long list of fears, dreads, worriments, anxieties, anticipations, expectations, pessimisms, morbidities, and the whole ghostly train of fateful shapes which our fellow-men, and especially physicians, are ready to help us conjure up, an array worthy to rank with Bradley's 'unearthly ballet of bloodless categories.'

"Yet this is not all. This vast array is swelled by innumerable volunteers from daily life,—the fear of accident, the possibility of calamity, the loss of property, the chance of robbery, of fire, or the outbreak of war. And it is not deemed sufficient to fear for ourselves. When a friend is taken ill, we must forthwith fear the worst and apprehend death. If one meets with sorrow … sympathy means to enter into and increase the suffering."

"Man," to quote another writer," often has fear stamped upon him before his entrance into the outer world; he is reared in fear; all his life is passed in bondage to fear of disease and death, and thus his whole mentality becomes cramped, limited, and depressed, and his body follows its shrunken pattern and specification. … Think of the millions of sensitive and responsive souls among our ancestors who have been under the dominion of such a perpetual nightmare! Is it not surprising that health exists at all? Nothing but the boundless divine love, exuberance, and vitality, constantly poured in, even though unconsciously to us, could in some degree neutralize such an ocean of morbidity."

Although the disciples of the mind-cure often use Christian terminology, one sees from such quotations


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TAFT, William Howard, jurist, b. in Cincinnati, 15 Sept., 1857, is a son of Judge

(q.v.). He was graduated from Yale, being second in the class of 1878, and from Cincinnati law-school two years later. He was appointed assistant prosecutor of Hamilton county in 1881, and collector of internal revenue the year following, resigning the office in March, 1883. In January, 1885, he was assistant solicitor of Hamilton county, and two years later became, by appointment of the governor, judge of the superior court of Cincinnati. In 1888 Judge Taft was elected to the same office for a term of five years. In February, 1890, he was appointed solicitor-general of the United States, and in March, 1892, he was made U.S. circuit judge for the 6th judicial district, which position he still occupies. Since 1896 Judge Taft has been dean and professor of the law department of the University of Cincinnati.


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374

of granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1897; viz.:—


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384

An Act to further amend the Law relating to the Occupation and Ownership of Land in Ireland, and for other purposes relating thereto. [14th August 1896.]

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1.—(1.) Where the court fix a fair rent for a holding, the court shall ascertain and record in the form of a schedule, unless both landlord and tenant shall otherwise request—

 * (a) the annual sum which should be the fair rent of the holding on the assumption that all improvements thereon were made or acquired by the landlord;

 * (b) the condition as to cultivation, deterioration, or otherwise of the holding and the buildings thereon;

 * (c) the improvements made wholly or partly by the tenant or at his cost, and with respect to each such improvement —

 * (i) the nature, character, and present capital value thereof, and the increased letting value due thereto;

 * (ii) the date (so near as can be ascertained) at which the same was made; and

 * (iii) the deduction from the rent made on account thereof;

 * (d) the extent (if any) to which the landlord has paid or compensated the tenant in respect of each such improvement;

 * (e) the improvements made wholly or partly by or at the cost of, or acquired by, the landlord;

 * (f) such other matters in relation to the holding as may have been taken into account in fixing the fair rent thereof or as may be prescribed; and

 * (g) the fair rent of the holding;

and the said schedule shall be in the form set out in the First Schedule to this Act, or in such other form as may be prescribed, and a certified copy of the record shall on the prescribed application be sent by post to each party, and the record shall be admissible in evidence on its mere production from the proper


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1896.

(2.) Nothing contained in the First Schedule to this Act shall Part I. affect the construction of any other portion of this Act.

(3.) No rent shall be allowed or made payable in respect of an improvement made by the tenant on a holding by reason only of the work constituting such improvement not being suitable to the holding.

(4.) For the purpose of the Land Law Acts, as amended by this Act, a tenant shall be deemed to have been fully paid or compensated for every improvement made by him in pursuance of a contract entered into for valuable consideration.

(5.) For the purpose of the Land Law Acts, as amended by this Act, a tenant shall not be deemed to have been paid or compensated for any improvement not made in pursuance of a contract entered into for valuable consideration, except to the extent to which the court, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, are of opinion that valuable consideration has been given by the landlord in respect of the improvement.

(6.) A contract by a tenant not to claim, on quitting his holding, compensation for any improvement made by him shall not authorise the allowance of any rent in respect of any improvement except to the extent to which the courts having regard to all the circumstances of the case, are of opinion that valuable consideration has been given by the landlord in respect of the entering into that contract

(7.) Section four of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, shall not authorise the allowance of any rent is respect of any improvement, provided that rent may be allowed in respect of an improvement made by the tenant, if made twenty years before the passing of the said Act, and not being a permanent building or reclamation of waste land.

(8.) For the purpose of this section valuable consideration shall not be held to have been given by reason of the mere letting of the land on lease or otherwise, or the mere enjoyment by the tenant of any improvement where the rent of the holding was not fixed, reduced, abated, or, after the improvement was made, allowed to remain unaltered with the object of recouping the tenant for his expenditure of capital and labour in making the improvement, and in the case of an improvement made in pursuance of a contract entered into for valuable consideration, such object shall be implied where not expressed.

(9.) In assessing the fair rent of any holding no deduction shall be made, except such deductions as shall be specified and accounted for in the said schedule, and are in accordance with the provisions of the Land Law Acts.

(10.) Sub-sections (2) and (4) of section five of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, and in the case of sales after the passing of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, sub-section (1) of the same section shall not have effect in the case of applications to fix a fair rent.


text: Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Tiffin, Edward


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Author:Horatio Willis Dresser

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 * The Power of Silence, 1895.
 * Education and the Philosophical Ideal, 1900.
 * A Physician to the Soul, 1908.
 * A History of the New Thought Movement, 1919.
 * P. P. Quimby, The Quimby Manuscripts, 1921 (editor).
 * A History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1926.
 * Outlines of the Psychology of Religion, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1929.

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Page:Public General Statutes 1896.djvu/406

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2. Any enactment prohibiting the resumption of a holding or part of a holding until the expiration of the first statutory term in a tenancy shall not apply where the term began after the of Commencement of this Act, and either the land resumed is demesne land, or the holding is a town park for which a fair rent is fixed by virtue of the this Act.

3.—(1.) On the expiration of a statutory term in a present tenancy shall continue a present tenancy subject to the same rent and conditions (including the statutory conditions) as during the statutory term, until the tenancy is determined, or a new statutory term for the holding begins, and an application to fix a fair rent may be made at any time during such continuance of the tenancy; and no objection to such application shall be allowed which could have been but was not taken upon the application for a previous judicial rent, or being then taken was overruled.

(2.) Where the court on application fix a judicial rent for a holding, the judicial rent and statutory term shall begin from the gale day next after the date of the application, or, if a preceding statutory term is then current, from any later gale day on which that statutory term expires.

(3.) The judicial rent fixed by order of the court for a holding shall, as from the gale day from which it begins, be the rent payable by the tenant of the holding; and where it differs from the previous rent, whether or not a judicial rent, then in respect of the period which may have elapsed since the gale day from which it began, the difference, if the judicial rent so fixed is higher than the previous rent, shall be paid by the tenant, and if the judicial rent so fixed is lower, may, if it has been actually paid by the tenant, be deducted from any rent subsequently payable by him, unless the judicial rent exceeds fifty pounds a year, in which case the difference may be deducted from any rent subsequently payable by him to the landlord to whom such difference has been paid, or to his personal representatives, or where the estate of such landlord has determined may be recovered from such landlord or his personal representatives. Provided that where the judicial rent does not exceed fifty pounds a year, the amount of any deduction made by the tenant may be recovered from the person to whom the difference Was paid, or his personal representatives.

4. In the Case of a tenant who applied to the court under in cases of section sixty of the, on the first occasion on which it sat, to have a fair rent fixed, and who, since making that application, has signed an agreement under sub-section (6) of section eight of the said Act, the statutory term so created shall, where the judicial rent has been received as having accrued due from the gale day next after the day on which the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, came into force, be held for the purpose of an application to fix a fair rent to date from that gale day.