29/34 I am sorry to observe so much Nationality in it. Let this be a secret between us, for I will not have my private opinions go beyond yourself. As for Kidd, he is a modest, unassuming man, and is not to be attacked with sticks and stones like a savage. Remember, it is only the epithets which I mean to soften; for as to the scientific part, it shall not be meddled with." His faithful correspondent, Mr.Ellis, wrote as to the quality of this third number of the _Quarterly_. He agreed with Mr.Murray, that though profound, it was "most notoriously and unequivocally _dull_.... |