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return. He gave the Bishop interesting in- formation, and, not knowing his relation- ship, said, in alluding to his mother, "There was another dafter called Dorcas ; a sodjer chap come arter she," which his Lordship knew.

If his presence was required the same day in more than one parish, he would sometimes walk from one to another. Once he missed his way in North Cornwall, and asked a farmer to give him a lift in an unlicensed trap, which would subject the man to a fine. "No, no," said the farmer. "You be one of they there sneaking informers going about the country. You don't get over me. Walk to the say, Prince of Darkness for me." In one of his walks, on parting company, Temple told a Wesleyan minister : " We are all in one fold, worshipping the same God, only differ- ently." Wesleyans claimed him as their bishop ; Evangelical Churchmen said, " We have had the high and dry, the low and slow ; now we have the broad with God."

Manor Temple, before leaving his house, would place his sons facing the wall in oppo- site corners of a room to solve arithmetical problems mentally before his return. At Tiverton his vigilant widow generally stood over her boys when they wrote their home Latin exercises. She would say : "Freddy Cor Johnny), I think there is a mistake ; try and find it"; and they either found one or their master did the next morning, which gave Freddy a very exalted opinion of his mother's attainments. Thus Octavius and Dorcas Temple laid the foundations for a Double First.

Directly Dr. Temple was made bishop friends strongly advised my wife to educate her son for the Church. She declared she knew the Bishop too well ; he was no nepo- tist. However, she once ventured to ask preferment for an old friend, and received a gentle hint that she had done wrong and must not repeat her error.

Dr. Temple was styled rugged, unpolished. Nature is at once rugged and sublime. Base metal may be burnished, but we need not gild refined gold, and Temple was nature's gentleman. In stripping the veneer from society we lay bare what, to a Christian mind, is rottenness. Can a society bishop touch pitch without defilement 1 ? Would such have remained, like Temple, on the Exeter platform, pleading the cause of temperance unperturbed when pelted with bags of flour by the publicans' hirelings 1

Justum, et tenacem propositi virum, Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida,

Had the great Archbishop imagined any good would have come of it, he would not have hesitated to enter Rotten Row in the season as his Master entered Jerusalem, conclude :

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

H. H. DRAKE.

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ARCHBISHOP TEMPLE'S FATHER. THE writer of the interesting paper on 'Archbishop Temple's Early Home,' which appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine for February, says that Major Octavius Temple " was a Waterloo man." Reference is also made in the above article to " the late Archbishop's Waterloo ancestry." Turning to the ' Royal Military Calendar ' (published in 1820), which gives the war services of generals and field officers in the British army, I find that Major Octavius Temple "served in the Mediterranean" (vol. v. p. 297). The officer in question had been appointed captain in the 14th Regiment of Foot, 15 September, 1808, and was given a brevet majority 4 June, 1814. The annual 'Army List' for 1815 does not give the number of the battalion to which each officer of the 14th Foot respectively belonged ; but from various monthly lists it appears that Major Temple belonged to the 2nd Battalion of his regiment. This battalion " formed part of the force sent from Genoa to hold Marseilles during the Waterloo campaign ; after which it was in Malta and the Ionian Islands " ('Records and Badges of the British Army '). While Major Temple's battalion was thus engaged in the Mediterranean, the 3rd Battalion of his regiment fought at Waterloo. In the annual 'Army List' for 1817 the immortal "W." was prefixed to the names of all officers who had served at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, but Major Temple's name is not so honoured ; nor was the omission noticed in subsequent army lists. As is well known, the sixth Earl of Albemarle (died 1891) served with the 3rd Battalion of the 14th Foot at Waterloo, and I had some correspondence with him prior to and after the publication of ' The Waterloo Roll Call.' Surely he would have pointed out the omis- sion of Major Temple's name had the latter served at Waterloo. CHARLES D ALTON.

BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.' (See ante, pp 181, 222.)

Vol. i. (A. R. Shilleto's edition), p. 266, 1. 4 (Partition I. sect. ii. mem. ii. subs, iii.),

In Westphalia they feed most part on fat