taken in due time, are seldom recovered, it being extreme hard
to play an after game of reputation."

E.L.N.


_Gray's Ode_.--In return for the information about Gray's _Ode_, I
send an entertaining and very characteristic circumstance told in Mrs.
Bigg's (anonymous) _Residence in France_ (edited by Gifford):--

"She had a copy of Gray when she was arrested in the Reign
of Terror. The Jacobins who searched her goods lighted on the
line--

'Oh, tu severi religio loci,'

and said, 'Apparemment ce livre est quelque chose de
fanatique.'"

My informant tells me that the monk he saw was the same as the one
mentioned by your correspondent, and that he had a motto from Lord
Bacon over his cell.

C.B.


_The Grand Style_.--Is it not extremely probable that Bonaparte
plagiarised the idea of the centuries observing the French army from
the pyramids from these lines of Lucan?--