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Look here," he continued, making a bound and pointing to a knot on the rough floor boards, "that's the exact spot where his head came down whop." We boys used to think the days at old Browne's very long and tedious, and often enough feel a mortal hatred of Euclid as a tyrant who had invented geometry for the sake of driving boys mad.
Yet, as a matter of fact, she lived in good health till over eighty, and to the last moment retained the full control of her faculties. She died, as might any other old person, of bronchitis. In truth, she was an example of Sir Thomas Browne's dictum that we live by an invisible flame within us. As a matter of fact, her flame was anything but invisible. It was remarkably visible.
Such is the lay religion, as we may find it in Addison, in Gray, in Thackeray; and there is something of a concession a concession, on second thoughts about it. Browne's Religio Medici is designed as the expression of a mind more difficult of belief than that of the mere "layman," as above described; it is meant for the religion of the man of science.
The contradiction is obvious; but there can be little doubt that, though Browne has, as it were, extorted a personal homage, Mr. Gosse's real sympathies lie on the other side. His remarks upon Browne's effect upon eighteenth-century prose show clearly enough the true bent of his opinions; and they show, too, how completely misleading a preconceived theory may be.
The Archdeacon took it up. "Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici and Urn Burial. On the flyleaf, 'Paul Savelli. An undergraduate, I should say, on a walking tour." Miss Winwood took the book from his hands a little cheap reprint. "I'm glad," she said. "Why, my dear Ursula?" "I'm very fond of Sir Thomas Browne, myself," she replied. Presently the doctor came and made his examination.
That is the tale's bare outline; and if any one says of the book that it is in parts melodramatic, one may fitly answer that never was any portion of the world's history such a thorough piece of melodrama as the French Revolution. With "The Tale of Two Cities" Hablôt K. Browne's connection with Dickens, as the illustrator of his books, came to an end.
J. ROSS BROWNE'S Report of the Debates in the Convention of California on the Formation of the State Constitution, is a curious historical document, and will possess still more interest when the antiquities of the modern Eldorado shall become the object of learned research.
Of this long, leisurely existence the chief events were Browne's rare literary publications; some of his writings indeed having been left unprinted till after his death; while in the circumstances of the issue of every one of them there is something accidental, as if the world might have missed it altogether.
Browne's drawings occasionally showed a tendency to approach the rudimentary sort of "pictograph" rather than give what a dramatic critic calls "a solid and studied rendering" of events. But many of Mr. Browne's illustrations of Dickens are immortal. They are closely bound up with our earliest and latest recollections of the work of the "incomparable Boz." Mr.
Peter Mancroft, where his monument still claims regard as chief among the memorabilia of that noble sanctuary . "Who knows the fate of his own bones? ... We insult not over their ashes," says Sir Thomas. At the first appearance of Browne's several publications, they attracted that attention from the learned and thoughtful which they have ever since retained.
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