'Mein alter Herr' (von Stein) 'pflegte dann wohl scherzend zu sagen: Ich muesse von irgend eine Hexe meinen Altem als ein Wechselbalg in's Nest gelegt seyn; ich gehoere offenbar einem Stamm amerikanischer wilden an, und habe noch die Huehnerhundnase zum Auswittern des verschiedenen Blutes.' Arndt, speaking of his power to detect at sight (when seen at a distance) Russians, English, etc., says that Von Stein replied thus in his surprise. But I have cited the passage as one which amply illustrates the suspensive form of sentence in the German always indicated by a colon (:), thus: 'zu sagen: Ich muesse'--to say that I must have been (p. 164). The active sense of _fearful_, viz., that which causes and communicates terror--not that which receives terror--was undoubtedly in Shakespeare's age, but especially amongst poets, the preponderant sense. Accordingly I am of opinion that even in neutral cases, such as are open indifferently to either sense, viz., that which affrights, or that which is itself affrighted, the bias in Shakespeare's interpretation of the feeling lay towards the former movement. For instance, in one of his sonnets: 'Oh, fearful meditation! where, alas!' the true construction I believe to be--not this: Oh, though _deriving_ terror from the circumstances surrounding thee, _suffering_ terror from the _entourage_ of considerations pursuing thee; but this: Oh, thought impressing and creating terror, etc. A 'fearful' agent in Shakespeare's use is not one that shrinks in alarm from the act, but an agent that causes others to shrink; not panic-struck, but panic-striking. Miss Edgeworth, let me remark, commits trespasses on language that are really past excusing. In one place she says that a man 'had a _contemptible_ opinion' of some other man's understanding. Such a blunder is not of that class which usage sanctions, and an accuracy not much short of pedantry would be argued in noticing: it is at once illiterate and vulgar in the very last degree. I mean that it is common amongst vulgar people, and them only. It ranks, for instance, with the common formula of '_I_ am agreeable, if you prefer it.' Style is the disentangling of thoughts or ideas reciprocally involved in each other. 4.--THEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS.