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 anything of them which he had not said plainly to them. Repeating his appeal, Mr. Galpin asked the Archdeacon's permission to publish the letters which the latter had addressed to him personally from time to time. This request also was disregarded.

It has been necessary to take this brief notice of the correspondence lest it should be thought that the House has anything to regret in connexion with it, which is certainly not the fact. That it left no lasting ill-feeling on either side may be inferred from the fact that two years later an agreement was entered into of which the fruit was the publication, in 1900, of "The Life of Lives: Further Studies in the Life of Christ." This book was not a great success, nor, it may be admitted, did it deserve to be: probably it left most readers with the impression that in "The Life of Christ" the author had said virtually all that he had to say on the subject. Like "The Early Days of Christianity," it has now fallen out of publication, but the two earlier works are still on sale, each of them in several different forms. A smaller work of Farrar's, "The Three Homes," a "tale for fathers and sons," as the sub-title describes it, was originally published in 1873 under the pseudonym "F. T. L. Hope," which stood in the author's mind, as he long afterwards explained, for "Faintly Trust the Larger Hope." It was many times reprinted, and has only recently disappeared from the list. Yet another work from the same prolific pen was "My Object in Life," a volume in the dainty "Heart Chords" series, devised by Canon Teignmouth Shore, who himself wrote for it the volume on "Prayer."

Farrar's was not the only Life of Christ to be published by Cassel's. In 1884 Dr. Cunningham Geikie arranged with them to publish his "Life and Words of Christ" and other books, which up to that time had been in the hands of another house, and the work appeared as a serial as well as in volume form. In July, 1885, they commissioned him to visit the Holy Land and write for them "The Holy Land and the Bible," the MS. to be