“‘Interference,’ is not minding your own business, and meddling with other people’s when we are not wanted. ‘Interposition’ is more the ‘doing good by interfering’ as protecting a little boy from a bully. ‘But for the _interference_ of James all would have gone well.’ ‘Thanks to the _interposition_ of Mary a quarrel was averted.’ “‘Genuine’ means real, true, what it seems to be as—‘a real _genuine_ ruby.’ ‘Authentic,’ in speaking of a book, means really written by the author to which it is ascribed. ‘Dickens’ _Oliver Twist_ is certainly _authentic_.’ “You would ‘hate’ a man who killed your father. ‘Charles II. hated Cromwell.’ You would ‘detest’ a man who had not done you any personal injury, but who (_sic_) you knew to be a murderer. ‘Yeo _detested_ the Spaniards.’ “You would ‘loathe’ a poisonous snake or a hypocrite. ‘David Copperfield _loathed_ Uriah Heep.’ You would abhor a man inferior to you in intellect or principles, as a great king would ‘abhor’ a cringing coward, leave him behind, go on without him, refuse to listen to him. ‘Napoleon _abhorred_ the traitor.’ “‘Education’ is the lessons you receive as a matter of course, as French, writing, grammar. ‘Instruction’ is this, but more also, it includes moral teaching, the teaching of honesty, and the teaching of gentleness. ‘Henry had a good _education_.’ ‘No well-_instructed_ Britain (_sic_) is a coward.’ “‘Apprehend’ is to see, or hear, and notice. ‘Comprehend’ is to understand, without seeing or hearing perhaps. ‘Phillip _apprehended_ that danger was near, but he did not _comprehend_ it.’” _Q._ Give shortly Carlyle’s estimate of Burns, showing what he did for Scotland, and what was the cause of his personal failure in life. (Book studied, Carlyle’s _Essay on Burns_.) F. (aged 17):—