I have not even hinted at such a thing to her, so that this is mere uncertainty, and, before it is printed, it would be in vain to think of it, as the old lady's eyes and MS.

could never agree together.
"P.S .-- I ought to have said that I am very glad of Aristarchus' [Grifford's] approval.

And, by the way, I think, if I help you in redeeming your character from 'Don Juan,' the 'Hetaerse' in the _Quarterly_, [Footnote: Mitchell's article on "Female Society in Greece," _Q.R._ No.

43.] etc., you ought to estimate that very highly." Mr.Murray offered Mr.Milman five hundred guineas for the copyright, to which the author replied: "Your offer appears to me very fair, and I shall have no scruple in acceding to it." Milman, in addition to numerous plays and poems, became a contributor to the _Quarterly_, and one of Murray's historians.

He wrote the "History of the Jews" and the "History of Christianity"; he edited Gibbon and Horace, and continued during his lifetime to be one of Mr.Murray's most intimate and attached friends.
In 1820 we find the first mention of a name afterwards to become as celebrated as any of those with which Mr.Murray was associated.