. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . of specimens—the centenary of the present publication. There—ifthe future editor have anything like the indulgence andveneration for antiquity of his predecessor—there shallposterity still hang with rapture on the half of Camp-bell, and the fourth part of Byron, and the sixth of Scott,and the scattered tithes of Crabbe, and the three percent, of Southey ; while some good-natured critic shallsit
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . of specimens—the centenary of the present publication. There—ifthe future editor have anything like the indulgence andveneration for antiquity of his predecessor—there shallposterity still hang with rapture on the half of Camp-bell, and the fourth part of Byron, and the sixth of Scott,and the scattered tithes of Crabbe, and the three percent, of Southey ; while some good-natured critic shallsit in our mouldering chair, and more than half preferthem to those by whom they have been superseded ! Itis an hyperbole of good-nature, however, we fear, toascribe to them even those dimensions at the end of acentury. After a lapse of two hundred and fifty years,we are afraid to think of the space they may have shrunkinto. We have no Shakespeare, alas ! to shed a never-setting light on his contemporaries ; and if we continueto write and rhyme at the present rate for two hundredyears longer, there must be some new art of short-handreading invented, or all reading must be given up JENKINS, Edward, a British publicist and nov-elist, born at Bangalore, India, in 1838. His fatherbecame minister of St. Pauls Presbyterian Church,Montreal, Canada. He was educated at McGillCollege, Montreal, and at the University of Penn-sylvania. In 1864 he was called to the Englishbar, and practised successfully until about 1874,when he was appointed Agent-General for Can-ada. In this year, while still in Canada, he wasreturned to Parliament for Dundee. In 1881 hestood for the city of Edinburgh, but was defeatedby a majority of nearly three to one. He is authorof several works, the main object of which is toset forth the condition of the laboring classes inEngland. Among these are Ginxs Baby (1872);Little Hodge (1873); Lord Bantam (1874) ; Contempo-rary Manners (1882); Jobsoris Enemie
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