442.] [Footnote 1312: Southey expresses the opinion in 'The Doctor', that the character of a person may be better known by the letters which other persons write to him than by what he himself writes.] [Footnote 1313: 'Dissertation on the Science of Method.'] [Footnote 1314: The following passage, from a recent article in the PALL MALL GAZETTE, will commend itself to general aproval:--"There can be no question nowadays, that application to work, absorption in affairs, contact with men, and all the stress which business imposes on us, gives a noble training to the intellect, and splendid opportunity for discipline of character.

It is an utterly low view of business which regards it as only a means of getting a living.

A man's business is his part of the world's work, his share of the great activities which render society possible.

He may like it or dislike it, but it is work, and as such requires application, self-denial, discipline.

It is his drill, and he cannot be thorough in his occupation without putting himself into it, checking his fancies, restraining his impulses, and holding himself to the perpetual round of small details--without, in fact, submitting to his drill.