Wren was an honest man, and suffered much and long for his opinions. Why should he then be accused of falsehood? Mr. MacColl says it was not dishonesty to put forth as his one reason this which was not his only or principal reason. 'To attempt,' he says (p. 201), 'to defend his practice on theological and liturgical grounds would simply have had the effect of intensifying the ignorance of his enemies, and exposing sacred things to ridicule. He would have been "casting pearls before swine," and provoking the fate divinely predicted for such folly. He fell back, therefore, on a line of defence, true in itself, and which his accusers could understand and appreciate, but which was far in arrear of that which he would have occupied in happier circumstances.
On offering this plea on behalf of Wren I am not, I think, indulging in an illegitimate exercise of casuistry. Our Lord Himself on one occasion (St. John x. 34-36), seeing that His adversaries were incapable of understanding the truth about His Person, retreated from the claim He had just made to one which they could not gainsay.' It is a new ground for not speaking the whole truth, that it would have had the effect of intensifying the ignorance of his enemies;" but in the name of sound exegesis, in the name of decency, let us be spared this introduction of the Saviour's name, and of a passage of the Bible which bears no kind of resemblance to Mr. MacColl's theories.
Here we leave this remarkable writer. We do not complain of being accused of imbecility' and 'incapacity.' We are dealing with a gentleman who has said of the Lay Committee of Council that, in order to save the Evangelical party,' it solemnly and deliberately declared that black was white (p. 17), and of the Mixed Committee that it was guilty of gross partiality and injustice.' We reckon from such lips on a few suffrages from his litany of scorn, and on being dismissed with the usual benediction, Thou fool.' The question, however, is not wholly whether a reviewer is imbecile and incapable, but whether he has displayed the character of a book in which documents are transformed and garbled, plain facts misstated, legal matters discussed without an attempt to understand them, and all this with a violence of language as unusual as it is unseemly, when aimed against the Courts of the realm. If our readers are able to find grounds for acquitting Mr. MacColl of intentional perversion of facts, we shall rejoice. It is not the reviewer's province to judge the writer; it is his province to prevent, so far as he may, books of this class from being written.
HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINTH VOLUME OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Addison's use of the native idioms, modifying the Latin or Gallic style, 461-463.
Agricultural Holdings Act, 562. Aldrovandus, trout, and trout-flies, 353.
'Angling, Handbook of,' by Ephemera,
an excellent guide, 365. 'Angling, Secrets of,' by J. D., 353- the felicity of the angler's life, 354 -the artificial fly, 355-twelve virtues of the angler, ib.-Oppian's ideal of, 356.
Artisans and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 563-565.
St. Aubyn, Sir J., 376—his local policy, ib.-goes abroad, 377-opponent to the Walpole administration, ib.- his political triumph, 378--cha- racter, 379-letter to Borlase on Pope's death, 385-death, 379.
Bacon, Lord, 'Letters and Life,' by J. Spedding, 2-consideration of the times at James I.'s accession, 5-on the union with Scotland, 7. Balcarres papers, the, 467. Balloons and Voyages in the Air, 106 -first experiments, 107-by M. des Roziers, 108-by M. Charles, 109– witticisms and caricatures, 111- Gay-Lussac's ascents, ib.-Lunardi's from Finsbury, 112. Blanchard crosses the Channel, 113-Roziers' fatal attempt, ib.-Mme. Blanchard's death, 114-the Sadlers, ib.-Mr. Green, ib.-the Nassau Balloon, 115 -Nadar's Géant, ib.-M. Jules Du- ruof, 116-bursting of balloon, ib.— the parachute, ib.-Garnerin and his wife, ib.-source of ascending power, shape, 117-appurtenances, 118-the guide-rope, ib. - difficulties of de- Vol. 139.-No. 278.
scent, 119, 120-captive balloons, 120 -scientific use of balloons, 121- Mr. Glaisher's' High Regions,' 121- application to the art of war, 122- important services rendered by Coutelle in 1793, 123-balloon ser- vice established in Paris, 124- strange adventures, 125-pigeon-post, 127-130-capabilities and prospects of aerial locomotion, 130-dirigible balloons, 131-M. Giffard's steam balloon, 132-M. de Lôme's experi- ments, 131-relation between power and speed, 135-flying machines, 138. 'Barker's Delight, or The Whole Art of Angling,' 356.
Baron, François, a popular actor in la Comedie Française, 152, 153. Bath in the year 1734, 380. Berners, Dame Juliana, Treatyse of Fysshing with an Angle,' 336, 352, 367.
Beverley, H., on the population of Bengal, 526-practical use of the Census during the famine, 527. Block, Maurice, 'L'Europe Politique et Sociale,' 544-reasons for the di- minution of the population in France, 545-official return, 546. Borlase, William, 361-birth, 369, education, 370 Oxford in 1715, ib.-journey from London to Corn- wall, 371-letter to Mrs. Delahaye, ib.-the Manor House of Pendeen, 372-at Ludgvan, 374-fondness for his garden, and his club, ib.-his memoir of Sir J. Ste Aubyn, 379- goes to Bath, ib.-letters from Pope, 381, 383-perilous descent into a cave, 382-letter to Dr. Oliver on Pope's death, 386-his pursuits, 389 ́
-first edition of Antiquities of Cornwall,' 390-Private Thoughts on the Creation and the Deluge,' 391 -his heraldic and parochial collec- tions, 393-death of his wife, ib.-
Carnarvon, Lord, on the case of Langa- libalele, 555.
Casaubon, Isaac, 22-his agreement with the Church of England, 23- opinion of James I., 24.
Castle Horneck, MS. collections at, 367.
Cawdor papers, the, 468, 469.
Censorship, dramatic, in France, esta- blished in 1702, 155.
Census of England and Wales in 1871, 525 includes the whole of the British Empire, ib.-practical value of the undertaking, 526, 527-in- crease of the population, 527-the agricultural districts, 529-diminu- tion of agricultural labourers, 530- proportion of births to marriages in the agricultural counties, 532-and greater proportion of blind people, ib.-town population, 533-memorial on the house accommodation in the metropolis, ib.-average number of persons to a house since 1801, 534- overcrowding not confined to towns, 535-discrepancy between the esti- mated numbers and the reality, 536, 537-necessity for a small but com- petent permanent staff, 538-pro- portion of French and Germans, 539-their frugality and industry, 540-number of women engaged in specific occupations, 541-increase of women-servants, 542 -no con- siderable increase in the higher classes of the liberal and learned professions, 542-curious facts dis- played in the Swedish census, 544- falling off in the French, ib.-funda- mental difference between France and England, 549. Church Law and Church Prospects, 248-unanimity of the Bishops, ib. the Rev. M. MacColl's pamphlet, 249
-its charges and inaccuracy, 249, 250-the Puritans' objection to the Ornaments' Rubric,' 253- the Clergy Discipline Act, 270-clergy- men refusing to recognise the judge under the Public Worship Regu lation Act, ib.-the power of the Bishops, 274- Queen Elizabeth's policy, 279-doctrinal symbols, 281
-the principle of uniformity in the Church of England, 282-stanzas to the Virgin Mary, 285-the doctrine of Transubstantiation, 286 - Mr. Gladstone's prophecies about the Church of England, 288, 289-note on the article, 577.
Clairon, Mlle., her early years at the Théâtre Italien, 160.
Corneille's 'Le Cid,' its first represen
Cornwall, number of native historians, 368.
Crawford, Lord, 'Lives of the Lind- says,' 488-his papers, 467. Crawhall's 'Newcastle Fishers' Gar- lands,' 360, 361, 366.
Créquy, Marquise de, on the Memoirs of Saint-Simon,' 292. Cross, Mr., his mastery of the subject
of the Labour Laws, 556-559. 'Cursor Mundi,' Danisms preserved in, 458.
Cutcliffe's 'Art of Trout Fishing in Rapid Streams,' 365.
Da Costa, E. M., on the probable effects of electricity, 391.
Daniel's Rural Sports,' on angling, 350.
Dalrymple, Donald, his exertions for the relief of the dipsomaniacs, 421- visits nine institutions in the United States, ib.-on the legal authority in America, 430-his Bill for the better care and management of drunkards, 433. See Drink. Dangeau, Marquis de, his Journal,'
with additions by Saint-Simon, 295. Dante's choice of Virgil as his guide, 79 his position in the 'Divina Commedia,' 81-character of Virgil, 85.
D'Arcussia's account of a flight of
herons with gyrfalcons, 180, 181. Dasent, Dr., an assertor of the old Scandinavian influence in England, 444-his translation of the 'Saga of Burnt Njal,' 458.
Davy, Sir H., on 'local memory' in trout, 349.
Deffand, Madame du, writing to Wal- pole, describes Saint-Simon's 'Me- moirs,' 292, 293.
D'Harcourt, Princesse, practical jokes played upon her by the Duke and Duchess of Burgundy, 315. Dibdin's conception of angler, 357. Dipsomaniacs, or 'habitual drunkards,' 418. See Drink.
Disraeli, Mr., his speech on the ground-
less charges of Dr. Kenealy, 551— on the second reading of the Agri- cultural Holdings Act, 560. Drink: the Vice and the Disease, 396
-all fermented beverages, whether for rich or poor, are luxuries, 397 -divided into two main streams, 398-that of wine affected by out- ward causes, ib. -its use decreased, 399-taxation on foreign wines, 400 -moderation in drinking, 401- 'Drink,' as connected with the 'poor,' ib.-diversity of effect on the two classes, 402 the Beer-house Bill, 403-the taste for drinking of precocious attainment, 404-testi- mony of Sir W. Bovill, ib.-of Sir H. S. Keating, 405-of Mr. Selfe, ib. -of chaplains, governors of prisons, chief constables and superintendents of police, 405, 406, 409-governors and chaplains of workhouses, 406— Lieut.-Col. Henderson, 407-clergy- men, 407, 408-remedial measures, 408-grand juries, 409-the beer- shops, ib.-familiarity with the sight of drunkenness, 410-effect of public opinion, 410, 411-the labours of individuals insufficient, 411-temp- tation to intemperance, 412 - no logical connection between the use of meat and bread and of strong drink, 413-the 'liberty of the sub- ject,' 414-annual number of deaths, 415-absence of public-houses in upwards of a thousand parishes in the diocese of Canterbury, ib.- 'habitual drunkards,' or dipsoma- niacs, 418 its cause, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, 419-no other rescue than an asylum, 421— Mr. D. Dalrymple's exertions for its relief, ib.-private refuges or refor- matories, 422 no legal power to detain patients, 423-its hereditary nature, 425-instances of, in ladies, 425, 426-predisposition, sunstroke,
425-parallel between the lunatic. and the dipsomaniac, 426-women the worst offenders, 427-' Volun- taryism,' a failure, 428-necessity of the power of detention, 429-Ameri- can experience, and question of treat- ment, 430-the greater proportion among the lower orders, 431-mili- tary definition of a drunkard, ib.- present system of punishment, 432- suicides, idiotcy, ib.-memorial to the Home Secretary, 435.
Edda, its meaning in Icelandic, 436. Elizabeth, Princess of Bohemia, her marriage, 17.
Queen, her last days, 4. Endowed Schools Bill, 1874, 568–570.
'Falconry in the British Isles,' by F. H. Salvin and W. Brodrick, 169—its decline, ib.-arbitrary laws for the preservation of the birds, 171-white falcons, 172-used as bribes, 173- as fines-174-Henry VIII.'s devo- tion to the sport, 175-James I.'s depreciation of it, 176, 178-Shak- speare's frequent allusions to it, 178, 179-its popularity in France, 179- D'Arcussia's account of a flight of herons with gyrfalcons, 180, 181- relative attractions of rook and game- hawking, 182-184-tribute to E. C. Newcome, 185, 186.
Fly-fishing, parentage and literary history of, 349-allusions to hook- and-line fishing in the Scriptures, ib. ancient Assyrian sculpture, 350 -net and rod-fishing, ib. Elian's story of angling on the river Astræus, 351-artificial fly, 355-twelve vir- tues of the angler, ib.-practical re- marks, 362-365.
Forbes family, papers of the, 468. France, diminution of the population, 544-small proportion of births to marriages, 545-losses by internal and external war, 546-the law of inheritance, 547, 548.
Charles I.,' 3-his carefulness and trustworthiness, 4 his facts not always in accordance with the con- clusions he draws, 29 describes Count Gondomar, ib. sketch of Digby, 33.
Gardner, W. J., History of Jamaica,' 40.
Gay's Rustic Sports,' verses on angling, 359, 360.
Giffard, H., his steam balloon, 132. Gillaroo, the, a variety of trout found in Loch Melvin, 343.
Gladstone, Mr., on doctrinal symbols, 281-on the danger of prosecution, 288-prophecies on the National Church, 288, 289.
Glaisher, T., 'Voyages Aériens,' 121- description of The High Regions,' ib.
Gondomar, Count, described by Gar- diner, 29.
Gothenburg, scheme for preventing excess of drinking, 416-418. Grant, Sir J. P., prosperity of Jamaica under his administration, 54, 55, 75. Green, Mr., the aeronaut, 114-number of his ascents, ib.-the Nassau Bal- loon, 115-invention of the guide- rope, 118.
Hamilton, Archbishop, his dispensa- tion in favour of Bothwell and Lady Jean Gordon, 467. Hamilton papers, the, 466. Harlay, President, described by Saint- Simon, 311.
Hearing, want of, in trout, 347. Henderson, Lieut.-Col., on drunken- ness in the army, 407. See Drink.
Icelandic Illustrations of English, 435 -the Icelandic language the stan- dard language of the Northern divi- sion of the Gothic family, 438-dif- ference between the Scandinavian and Teutonic branches, ib.-its old ancestral name Danish, 439 - the representative of the old Danish, 440-distinction between Danes and Norwegians, ib. - their respective traces in Great Britain, ib.-in local names, 441-the use of the word can in the auxiliary sense of did, 443- the physique of the two nations, 444 -comparison between Anglo-Saxon
and Icelandic, 445 - presentive words, 446-455 - compound words, 455-symbols, 457 - Danish traces in Wiclif's Bible, 459-in Shak- speare, 460-the claims of are and be, 461-the Romanesque tide, ib.- Addison's style of writing, 461-463- American criticism, 462-two gene- ral conclusions from the review of the relations between Icelandic and English, 464.
Icelandic literature, 437-fertility of its phraseology, 454.
becomes Jamaica, 40 an English settlement, 46-deadly power of a vertical sun, 46-experiments of Scotch and Irish immigration, 47- multiplication of negro slaves, 48- large proportion of absentees in, 49
results of emancipation, 51- Morant Bay riots, 52-renounces the prerogative of self-government, 53 success of present administra- tion, 54-commercial importance, 55 -country life, 57-Canon Kingsley's 'At Last,' 58-coffee, pimento, in- digo, 59-cinchona plant, 60-pas- ture lands, 60-black population, 62 -negro labour, 66-increase of the creole-negro race, 68-coolies, 69- absence of mechanical skill, 71- coloured population, 72- want of middle-class schools, ib.- Spanish Town College, 74-the Paradise of the West, 77.
James I. described by Ranke, 8-his motto, 8-his disadvantages, 9-con- sciousness of awkwardness, 10-his favourites, 12-sagacity in the selection of ambassadors, 13-pre- servation of peace his chief care, 14 -his foreign policy, 15, 21-energy after Henry IV.'s murder, 17-chil- dren, ib.-natural defects, 19-rela tions with Rome, 21 Casaubon's opinion of him, 24-the Spanish marriage, 25-never swayed by wife or mother, 27-opposes the Elector Palatine's acceptance of the crown of Bohemia, 31. Digby sent to Vienna, 33 his government at home, 35-address to Parliament, 36 -tires of Buckingham, 38-twofold aspect in his characterisation, 39. Jesse, E., on the sense of hearing in fish, 347.
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