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The same is true of Italy, Spain, and Austria, and if not of Germany it is because military despotism holds all alike in subjection. Mr. Bodley has come to the same conclusion in his work on "France." He writes:
"At Vicksburg, on July 4, 1835, a drunken member of the gang threatened to attack the authorities, and was tarred and feathered. Others of the gang, or at least several well-known gamblers, collected and defied the citizens, and killed the good and brave Dr. Bodley. Five men were hung, Hullams, Dutch Bill, North, Smith and McCall.
'Bodley race-ball! he cried; and looking at Lady Jocelyn: 'Was your ladyship there, then? Why ha! ha! why, you have seen the Great Mel, then! That tremendous footman was old Mel himself! Lady Jocelyn struck both her hands on the table, and rested her large grey eyes, full of humorous surprise, on Mr. George. There was a pause, and then the ladies and gentlemen laughed. 'Yes, Mr.
Bodley, Gilpin, and the rest were in a chronic state of exasperation with the Hollanders, not only because of their perpetual complaints, but because their complaints were perpetually just.
Saith the prophet Isaiah, 'The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things he shall stand. The name of Thomas Bodley still stands all the world over by the liberal thing he devised. A few pages about this 'second Ptolemy' will be grudged me by none but unlettered churls.
Joe Bodley was as poor as Ned Talmadge was rich, yet the two lads were quite friendly. Joe knew a good deal about hunting and fishing, and also knew all about handling boats. They frequently went out together, and Ned insisted upon paying the poorer boy for all extra services. Joe's home was located on the side of the mountain which was just now wrapped in such dark and ominous looking clouds.
Though Bodley, in one of his letters, modestly calls himself a mere 'smatterer, he was, as indeed he had the sense to recognise, excellently well fitted to be a collector of books, being both a good linguist and personally well acquainted with the chief cities of the Continent and with their booksellers.
Ortel, envoy of the States to London, expressed his hopes that affairs would now be handled more to the satisfaction of the States; as Bodley would be obliged, since the death of Sir Francis, to address his letters to the Lord High Treasurer, with whom it would be impossible for him to obtain so much influence as he had enjoyed with the late Secretary of State.
"I wouldn't go for ter say Hopewell is a sharper," he grinned; "but mebbe he ain't so powerful innercent as he sometimes 'pears. If so, I'm sartainly glad of it." "What do you mean, Mr. Dexter?" asked 'Rill, rather sharply. "Guess Joe Bodley feels like he'd like ter know whether Hopewell done him or not.
Sir Thomas Bodley, famous and of grateful memory to all learned men and lovers of letters for his collecting and establishing the best library in Britain, which is now at Oxford, and is called, after his name, the Bodleian Library to this day. Also Sir Francis Drake, born at Plymouth. Sir Walter Raleigh.
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