When you make up your parcel, pray put in some small cheap 'Horace,' which I can no more do without than Parson Adams _ex_ 'Aeschylus.' I have left it somewhere on the road.

Any common thing will do." Mr.Murray sent Gifford a splendid copy of "Horace" in the next parcel of books and manuscripts.

In his reply Gifford, expostulating, "Why, my dear Sir, will you do these things ?" thanked him warmly for his gift.
Mr.George Ellis was, as usual, ready with his criticism.

Differing from Gifford, he wrote: "I confess that, to my taste, the long article on the New Testament is very tedious, and that the progress of Socinianism is, to my apprehension, a bugbear which _we_ have no immediate reason to be scared by; but it may alarm some people, and what I think a dull prosing piece of orthodoxy may have its admirers, and promote our sale." Even Constable had a good word to say of it.

In a letter to his partner, Hunter, then in London, he said: "I received the _Quarterly Review_ yesterday, and immediately went and delivered it to Mr.Jeffrey himself.