a readiness and willingness of literary communication seldom found.  He is admired and sought after by the young who are entering on a course of study, and revered, and often followed, by those who have completed it.  Nomen in exemplum sero servabirnus evo!” Mr. Bryant died in 1804, in his eighty-ninth year, in consequence Of a wound on his Shin, occasioned by his foot slipping from a chair which he had stepped on to reach a book in his library-E.

Letter 90 To The Rev. Mr. Cole.  Strawberry Hill, June 5, 1775. (page 134)

I am extremely concerned, dear Sir, to hear you have been so long confined by the gout.  The painting of your house may, from the damp, have given you cold-I don’t conceive that paint can affect one otherwise, if it does not make one sick, as it does me of all things.  Dr. Heberden(209) (as every physician, to make himself talked of, will Set up Some new hypothesis,) pretends that a damp house, and even damp sheets, which have ever been reckoned fatal, are wholesome:  to prove his faith he went into his own new house totally Unaired, and survived it.  At Malvern, they certainly put patients into sheets just dipped in the spring-however, I am ’glad you have a better proof that dampness is not mortal, and it is better to be too cautious than too rash.  I am perfectly well, and expect to be so for a year and a half-I desire no more of the bootikins than to curtail my fits.

Thank you for the note from North’s Life, though, having reprinted my Painters, I shall never have an opportunity of using it.  I am still more obliged to you for the offer of an Index to my Catalogue but, as I myself know exactly where to find every thing in it, and as I dare to say nobody else will want it, I shall certainly not put you to that trouble.

Dr. Glynn will certainly be most welcome to see my house, and shall, if I am not at home:-still I had rather know a few days before, because else he may happen to come when I have company, as I have often at this time of the year, and then it is impossible to let it be seen, as I cannot ask my company, who may have come to see it too, to go out, that somebody else may see it, and I should be Very sorry to have the Doctor disappointed.  These difficulties, which have happened more than once, have obliged me to give every ticket for a particular day; therefore, if Dr. Glynn will be so good as to advertise me of the day he intends to come here, with a direction, I shall send him word what day he can see it.

I have just run through the two vast folios of Hutchins’s Dorsetshire.(210) He has taken infinite pains; indeed, all but those that would make it entertaining.