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the early Quakers. In one of her addresse she bestows warm praise upon two persons named Tillinghast and Pendarves, with whom she seems to have been connected in som way. Is anything known of these persons 1

Perhaps it is worth while to add that th_ lady's doctrines seem to approximate more nearly to those of the Baptists than to those of any other sect. In one of her discourses she reports a dialogue between the Father and the Son, in which they discuss the question of the Fall of Man and the means of his redemption. This might have been thought to approach pretty closely to blasphemy, had not Milton followed the lady's example of course, in verse infinitely superior to hers, but not (if I may dare to say so) with much more success in point of good sense or good taste. BERTRAM DOBELL.

SHAKESPEARE'S BOOKS. ( Continued from p. 181. )

Bassanio. So may the outward shows be least

themselves :

The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? Ihere is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts : How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk ; And these assume but valour's excrement To render them redoubted ! Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight ; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it : So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea, the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty.

' Merchant of Venice,' III. ii. I think that Shakespeare in this passage refers to ornament Poetical, thus described by Puttenham :

"This ornament is of two sorts, one-tosatisfie and delight th'eare onely by a goodly outivard show set upon the matter with wordes and speaches sniothly and tunably running: another by certaine mtendments or sence of such wordes and speaches inwardly working a stirre to the mynde : that first qualitie the Greekes called Enargia of this word argos because it geveth a glorious lustre and light. I his latter they called Energia of ergon, because it wrought with a strong and vertuous operation ; and ngure breedeth them both, some serving to give

glosse onely to a language, some to give efficacie by sence, and so by that meanessomeot them serve the eare onely, some serve the conceit onely and not th'eare : there be of them also that serve both turnes as common servitours appointed for th'one and th'other purpose, which shall be hereafter spoken of in place : out because we have alleged before that ornament is but the good or rather bewtifull habite of language or stile, and figurative speaches the instrument wherewith we burnish our language for fashioning it to this or that measure and propor- tion, whence finally resulteth a long and continuall phrase or maner of writing or speach, which we call by the name of stile."

Puttenham in describing and Shakespeare in referring to this figure use the words ornament and outward show. Puttenham says " ornament is but the good or rather bewtifull habite of language or stile," and Shakespeare says

Ornament is but the guiled shore

To a most dangerous sea, the beauteous scarf

Veiling an Indian beauty.

Moreover, according to Puttenham, orna- ment is the beautiful habit of language, and according to Shakespeare ornament is the beauteous scarf. W. L. RUSHTON.

(To be continued.)

GRAMMATICAL DICTIONARY WANTED. If some body of devoted lexicographers would give us a "grammatical" dictionary, there would be one pebble fewer on the beach. Man v small works deal with such changes of word- ! orm as occur in case, number, voice, mood, and ideal " grammatical " dictionary language and dialect should both be included, because t is in the latter that the greatest doubt exists in the minds of students as to irregu- arities and peculiarities in spelling and con- ugation. Technical terms snould also have
 * ense; but the best is insufficient. In the
 * ull treatment, especially those taken from

'oreign languages. Some work of more scho- arly and comprehensive character than a >ade mecum should give to the man who seeks iccurate information the plural of this term, or instance. (Vade nobiscum would be ciolistic and based upon a confusion of ideas.) t would be but an element of the case that uch orthographical variations as " benefited," ' profited," and " allotted " should be furnished under their main forms. And the work hould show exactly how far such a word as he Stock Exchange " coup " has penetrated grammatically. Conceding the point that it s used correctly as a verb, we are confronted with the question whether the form " he had ouped," which is going the round of the )apers in an anecdote concerning Mr. Car- legie, is established in the language. Further, t the dictionary gave all the forms of the