It is impossible to keep up acquaintance with a man, however otherwise estimable, who separates the 26 last chapters of Isaiah from Isaiah merely by a shabby little note and asterisk. Surely those chapters belong to the end of the Babylonish Captivity and should be separated by a distinct division; while the shabby little note and asterisk might go to some isolated chapters (_e.g._ xiii., xiv.) among the first 39 which belong to the same time, the end of the Captivity--whereas the first 39 chapters (generally) appear to belong to the "Middle Ages" of Prophecy. But as it may be judged inconvenient to put Chaps. xl.-lxvi. of Isaiah in a different part of the Bible, I will concede that point and simply classify them (I follow Ewald's order). But they _must_ be under a separate Heading with "End of Babylonian Captivity" (or words to that effect) printed distinctly _under the heading_ (not in a note). [143] "The Bishop has disallowed our 'Versicles' and some other things on legal grounds--_i.e._ on the opinion of Sir Travers Twiss (poor man!). We will have them in a particular book of our own. He says 'they are admirably selected'" (_Letter from Mr. Jowett_, March 16, 1872). [144] See Abbott and Campbell's _Life and Letters of Jowett_, vol. ii. pp. 35-36, and "Recollections of Professor Jowett" in Swinburne's _Studies in Prose and Poetry_, p. 33. The full title of the book was _The School and Children's Bible prepared under the Superintendence of the Rev. William Rogers_. London: Longmans, 1873. More generally, she criticized the first selection sent to her as showing some want of proportion. There was no clear plan, she thought, as to the space to be given, respectively, to:--