you want to swim with the turbid democratic current! You are an
historian, Maitland: did you ever know this policy succeed? Did
you ever know the respectables prosper when they allied themselves
with the vulgar? Ah, keep out of your second-hand revolutions.
Keep your hands clean, whether you keep your head on your shoulders
or not. You will never, I fear, be Bishop of Winkum, with all your
historical handbooks and all your Oxford Liberalism.

But I am losing my temper, for the first time since I discovered
Te-a-Iti. This must not be.--Yours regretfully,

PAUL RONDELET.

P.S.--Don't give any one my address; some of these Oxford harpies
are still unappeased. The only European I have seen was not an
University man. He was a popular Scotch novelist, and carried
Shorter Catechisms, which he distributed to my flock. I only hope
he won't make "copy" out of me and my situation.

P. R.



LETTER: From Harold Skimpole, Esq., to the Rev. Charles Honeyman,
M.A.



These letters tell their own tale of Genius and Virtue indigent and
in chains. The eloquence of a Honeyman, the accomplishments of a