The essays of Elia . ence of its contrary. EveryQuakeress is a lily; and, when they come up in bandsto their Whitsun conferences, whitening the easterlystreets of the metropolis, from all parts of the UnitedKingdom, they show like troops of the Shining Ones. THE OLD AND THE NEWSCHOOLMASTER My reading has been lamentably desultory and im-methodical. Odd, out of the way, old English plays,and treatises, have supplied me with most of my notions,and ways of feeling. In everything that relates toscience, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest ofthe world. I should have scarcely cut a figure amo
The essays of Elia . ence of its contrary. EveryQuakeress is a lily; and, when they come up in bandsto their Whitsun conferences, whitening the easterlystreets of the metropolis, from all parts of the UnitedKingdom, they show like troops of the Shining Ones. THE OLD AND THE NEWSCHOOLMASTER My reading has been lamentably desultory and im-methodical. Odd, out of the way, old English plays,and treatises, have supplied me with most of my notions,and ways of feeling. In everything that relates toscience, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest ofthe world. I should have scarcely cut a figure amongthe franklins, or country gentlemen, in King Johnsdays. I know less geography than a schoolboy of sixweeks standing. To me a map of old Ortelius is asauthentic as Arrowsmith. I do not know whereaboutAfrica merges into Asia ; whether Ethiopia lie in one orother of those great divisions ; nor can form the remotestconjecture of the position of New South Wales, or VanDiemens Land. Yet do I hold a correspondence with 80. eVERY OUAKGRF=; THE OLD AND THE NEW SCHOOLMASTER a very dear friend in the first-named of these two TerraeIncognitae. I have no astronomy. I do not know whereto look for the Bear, or Charless Wain ; the place ofany star ; or the name of any of them at sight. I guessat Venus only by her brightness;—and if the sun onsome portentous morn were to make his first appearancein the West, I verily believe, that, while all the worldwere gasping in apprehension about me, I alone shouldstand unterrified, from sheer incuriosity and want ofobservation. Of history and chronology I possesssome vague points, such as one cannot help pickingup in the course of miscellaneous study; but I neverdeliberately sat down to a chronicle, even of my owncountry. I have most dim apprehensions of the fourgreat monarchies; and sometimes the Assyrian, some-times the Persian, floats as first in my fancy. I make thewildest conjectures concerning Egypt, and her shepherdkings. My friend M., with gre
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