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��pensions when they have arrived at the age of fifty-five or are incapacitated from work by ill-health, mental or bodily, and their widows or daughters if they are in distressed circumstances."

LITERATURE.

1851, October 10th (Lord John Russell). MRS. MARY REID.

" In consideration of Dr. Reid's valuable contributions to literature, ' and of the distressed condition in which his widow and children are placed by his decease.' 501"

Mrs. Reid is the widow of James Seaton Reid, D.D. (1798-1851), Church historian, author of ' History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland,' the third volume of which was completed by Prof. Killen, of Belfast (' Dictionary of National Biography,' vol. xlvii. p. 429).

1856, November 10th (Lord Palmerston).

MR. PHILIP JAMBS BAILEY.

" In consideration of his literary merits. 100Z."

Born at Nottingham, 22nd of April, 1816. Author of * Festus,'

published in 1839. He was included in the honorary LL.D.s at the

recent celebration at Glasgow University.

Mr. Theordore Watts in The Athenaeum for April 1st, 1876,

writes that

" there is, in fact, both here and in America, a large section of the public, both cultivated and uncultivated, which free from the bonds of Calvinism on the one hand, and from hedonic nescience and art-worship on the other feels a warm and passionate sympathy with Mr. Bailey's poem and the universalism it teaches. And this sympathy in religious circles, at least is, as a matter of fact, widening. It might almost be said, indeed, that Christianity can never even in the highest development possible to it get beyond the loving universalism of such opposite poets as Bailey and Burns .... Had not * Festus ' been itself preceded (by something like four years) by Mr. Browning's ' Paracelsus,' and not followed by it, the influence of Bailey would, through Dobell, have been so great upon our youngest school that his place in the history of nineteenth-century poetry would have been more important than it even is now. Yet, in the study of English poetry, it is always necessary to consider the influence of ' Paracelsus ' upon ' Festus,' the influence of * Festus ' upon ' Balder ' and e England in Time of War ' ; and the influence of these upon most subsequent poetry."

Mr. Bailey died on the 6 September, 1902, aged 86.

1858, February 15th (Lord Palmerston). MR. STEPHEN HENRY BRADBURY.

" In consideration of his contributions to literature. 50/."

1861, April 19th (Lord Palmerston). Second grant. " In consideration of his literary merit. 251." A poet of the middle of the century.

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