best representative of a worthy and amiable family who had been trained in the school of Samuel Johnson. That type of character has passed away. The rugged old dictator’s political creed is unintelligible to the present age; his devotion is taken for superstition or formalism; his canons of criticism are obsolete. His disciples felt nothing of what was stirring in the air. They were but little accessible to fresh ideas. The cause of popular freedom, the Evangelical movement in religion, the romantic spirit in poetry appealed to them with the smallest effect. They were zealous for authority; they were not in the least introspective; when they wanted a line or two of verse, they nearly always went to Pope for it. The speculations, the problems of the modern world were all unknown to them. They were far less inclined to embrace new dogmas of faith or agnosticism than to observe old rules of action. Yet when we read the annals of the Burneys—the accomplished, the genial, self-respecting, conscientious, pious Burneys—may we not be pardoned for thinking that there was a good deal, after all, in those antiquated Johnsonian principles? THE END. ---------------------------- BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD. ----- Footnote 123: Moore’s ‘Life of Byron,’ Letters 78, 80. Footnote 124: He had studied mathematics in Paris according to the analytical method instead of the geometrical, which was at that time exclusively taught at Cambridge. Footnote 125: Miss Austen took the title of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ from some words on the last page of ‘Cecilia.’ Footnote 126: Introduction to ‘Evelina’ by Annie Raine Ellis. ----- Popular Science. ------------------ THE GREAT WORLD’S FARM; some Account of Nature’s Crops and How they are Grown. By SELINA GAYE, Author of ‘The Great World’s Lumber Room.’ With a Preface by Professor BOULGER. With Sixteen Illustrations. Cloth. Price 5s. ‘A fascinating volume of popular science.’—_Times._ SUN, MOON, AND STARS. A Book on Astronomy for Beginners. By A. GIBERNE. New and Revised Edition. With Coloured Illustrations. Twenty-second Thousand. Crown 8vo., cloth. Price 5s. ‘Welcome as a prize-book.’—_Pall Mall Gazette._ RADIANT SUNS. A Sequel to ‘Sun, Moon, and Stars.’ With Illustrations. Price 5s. ‘Miss Giberne sketches the theories and achievements of astronomers from the dawn of science, and then treats of the spectroscope and of the nature of the stellar universe. We know no examples of the art of teaching so sound and stimulating.’—_Saturday Review._ THE WORLD’S FOUNDATIONS. Geology for Beginners. By A. GIBERNE. With Illustrations. Sixth Thousand. Crown 8vo., cloth. Price 5s. ‘The exposition is clear, the style simple and attractive.’— _Spectator._