Professor James Geikie’s “Outlines of Geology,” published in 1886.  Similar prominence is given to the subject in De Lapparent’s “Traite de Geologie,” published in 1885, and in Credner’s “Elemente der Geologie,” which has appeared during the present year.  If this be a “conspiracy of silence,” where, alas! can the geological speculator seek for fame?—­Yours very truly, JOHN W. JUDD.

October 10, 1887.

FOOTNOTES: 

     [28] The Advance of Science.  Three sermons preached in
          Manchester Cathedral on Sunday, September 4, 1887,
          during the meeting of the British Association for the
          Advancement of Science, by the Bishop of Carlisle, the
          Bishop of Bedford, and the Bishop of Manchester.

     [29] Reprinted in Vol.  IV. of this collection.

     [30] American Journal of Science, 1885, p. 190.

     [31] Professor Geikie, however, though a strong, is a fair
          and candid advocate.  He says of Darwin’s theory, “That
          it may be possibly true, in some instances, may be
          readily granted.”  For Professor Geikie, then, it is not
          yet over-thrown—­still less a dream.

     [32] I find, moreover, that I specially warned my readers
          against hasty judgment.  After stating the facts of
          observation, I add, “I have, hitherto, said nothing
          about their meaning, as, in an inquiry so difficult and
          fraught with interest as this, it seems to me to be in
          the highest degree important to keep the questions of
          fact and the questions of interpretation well apart”
          (p. 210).

V:  THE VALUE OF WITNESS TO THE MIRACULOUS

[1889]

Charles, or, more properly, Karl, King of the Franks, consecrated Roman Emperor in St. Peter’s on Christmas Day, A.D. 800, and known to posterity as the Great (chiefly by his agglutinative Gallicised denomination, of Charlemagne), was a man great in all ways, physically and mentally.  Within a couple of centuries after his death Charlemagne became the centre of innumerable legends; and the myth-making process does not seem to have been sensibly interfered with by the existence of sober and truthful histories of the Emperor and of the times which immediately preceded and followed his reign by a contemporary writer who occupied a high and confidential position in his court, and in that of his successor.  This was one Eginhard, or Einhard, who appears to have been born about A.D. 770, and spent his youth at the court, being educated along with Charles’s sons.  There is excellent contemporary testimony not only to Eginhard’s existence, but to his abilities, and to the place which he occupied in the circle of the intimate friends of the great ruler whose life he subsequently wrote.  In fact, there is as good