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Even his work could be pruned, not by others, but by himself. "The household at Chelsea was never closer drawn together than in those times of trial." Carlyle lost time and spirits, but he could afford the loss. The entire work was delayed, but was done at last. The final sentence of Vol. III. was written at ten o'clock on a damp evening, January 14, 1837.

"In times," says Kemble,* "when there was neither pen, ink, nor parchment the bark of trees and smooth surfaces of wood or soft stone were the usual depositaries of these symbols or runes hence the name run-stafas, mysterious staves answering to the Buchstaben of the Germans. * Archaeologia, vol. xxviii. On Anglo-Saxon Runes.

L. Campbell's Gifford Lectures on Religion in Greek Literature, 1898. E. Caird, The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers, 1904. Holwerda, in De la Saussaye, Third Edition. Ramsay on "Religion of Greece and Asia Minor" in Hastings' Bible Dictionary. S. Reinach, in Oxford Proceedings, vol. ii. p. 117, sqq.

Wordsworth's second vol. of the 'Lyrical Ballads' will I hope, and almost believe, afford you as unmingled pleasure as is in the nature of a collection of very various poems to afford to one individual mind. Sheridan has sent to him too requests him to write a tragedy for Drury Lane. But W. will not be diverted by any thing from the prosecution of his great work.

Life, vol. X. p. 160. Viz, Faldonside, an estate adjacent to Abbotsford which Scott had long wished to possess.

While it is often unpractical to refer one's readers to examples of work in far and various countries, and advise them instantly to examine them, it is frequently possible to call attention to well-produced plates in certain modern art books which are in nearly every public library. Russell Sturgis's "Artist's Way of Working," Vol.

Rep. 1847, p. 33. In the map prepared by Prof. J. Milne and Mr. W. K. Burton to show the range of the great earthquake of Japan , similar isoseismal lines are laid down. Lyell, loc. cit., p. 163. Two Catalogues of Earthquakes have been drawn up by Prof. O'Reilly, and are published in the Trans. Roy. Irish Academy, vol. xxviii. Ninth Annual Report, U.S. Geological Survey .

See my article on the "Meddygon Myddfai," entitled "Old Welsh Folk Medicine," "Y Cymmrodor," vol. ix. p. 227. A certain German family used to excuse its faults by attributing them to a sea-fay who was reckoned among its ancestors; Birlinger, "Aus Schwaben," vol. i. p. 7, quoting the "Zimmerische Chronik." Namely, her husband's father, whose name she was not permitted by etiquette to utter.

From the English standpoint, the best summary is that of H. E. Egerton, A Short History of British Colonial Policy . Other valuable works: C. M. Andrews, Colonial Self-Government , Vol.

He hence, after a full examination, comes to the conclusion that "the condition of the weather as to change, or in any other respect, has, as a matter of fact, no correspondence whatever with the lunar phases." See Lectures on Science and Art, vol. i., p. 315.