and the fifth act, Steele records, was written in less than a week's time. It was published on the 27th April, the author giving all his profits to the actors.

"Cato "owed its success almost entirely to Addison's Parliamentary Whig connections. It was meant to be a hit at the Tories. When the play was acted Bolingbroke is said to have sent for Booth, who performed Cato, and presented him, before the whole house, with fifty guineas "for defending so well the cause of the people against a perpetual dictator,” thus asserting the cause of his own party, and launching a sarcasm at Marlborough, whom he feared and hated.

Marlborough's final revenge on St. John was blighting. As the incident is not perhaps very universally known, we will append a very slight account of it here, and risk fatiguing the bibliographical critic.

After the death of Queen Anne it was evident that a prosecution was impending against Oxford and Bolingbroke for their malversation in office and general ill conduct of public affairs. Bolingbroke did not wait for the crisis, but suddenly fled to Dover, and thence crossed to Calais, writing to his friend George Granville, then Lord Lansdowne, from the former place just before he crossed: “I left town so abruptly, that I had not time to take leave of you or any of my friends. You will excuse me when you know, that I had certain and repeated information, from some who are in the secret of affairs, that a resolution was taken by those who have power to execute it, to pursue me to the scaffold. My blood was to have been the cement of a new alliance; nor could my innocence be any security after it had been once demanded from abroad, and resolved on at home, that it was necessary to cut me off."

Although St. John, in a letter to Sir W. Windham, denies that he was frightened by Marlborough into leaving England, we have now historical evidence to show that Marlborough was the man who urged him to fly the country. St. John, before his flight, had, in the extremity of his discomfort, thought of his old friendship with Marlborough, and had recourse to him for advice as to the steps he should take in regard to his impending prosecution. Bolingbroke had libelled the Duke's wife, encouraged Swift to assail him with merciless satire, accused him of peculation and extortion in the House of Commons, taken him from the head of his victorious army, given his command to an enemy, surrendered his glorious conquests, driven him from England, and threatened to commit him to the Tower. Marlborough saw the hour of his revenge was come, was as usual affable and courteous, privately communicated, as one deep in the secrets of Heinsius and the ministers, that his life was to be struck at; that Oxford and the Whigs had come to an understanding of which the price was his blood; and that his only resource was flight. Bolingbroke, appalled by the Duke's serious manner and the Duke's words, did the very last thing which, on the presumption of his innocence (and there was no evidence which could have justified his conviction), he should have done. By flying from his accusers, and seeking refuge in France, he appeared to justify all the allegations of those who charged him with having given up the interests of England by the peace to the French King, and of having been in a deep conspiracy to bring in the Pretender. This action of Marlborough's led, as we know, to Bolingbroke's impeachment, his long and tedious exile, and the extinction of all his ambitious hopes. [See Macknight's "Life of Bolingbroke;" "Marchmont Papers" (especially note, ii. 192); "Parl. Hist.," vii. 50 and 66; "Mémoires du Maréchal de Berwick."] Half Brown Morocco.

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ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold. [Vignette.] London. Macmillan and Co. 1880.

Pp. vii+235.

18mo.

Presentation copy from the author to Frederick Locker, with autograph inscription.

It is as a critic that perhaps Matthew Arnold is at his best. Some sour Frenchman said: Qu'est-ce qu'un critique? C'est un impuissant qui n'a pu être artiste."

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ARNOLD-AUSTEN.

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ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Poems by Matthew Arnold, Dramatic and later poems. London, Macmillan and Co. 1885. Cr. 8vo.

Titles and preliminary, 4 leaves+pp. 209.

December 27th, 1881, Arnold wrote: “A. P. S[tanley] would have taken great delight in the use I have made of a lovely legend of primitive Westminster, in our day known hardly to a soul. A. P. S. knew it well himself."

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Letter from Matthew Arnold to Godfrey Locker, dated January 10th, 1888, inserted; also one to Lady Frances Baillie, dated November 4th, 1867. On p. 181 occurs the Poem, "Westminster Abbey, July 25th, 1881." "The Day of Burial . . . of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley."

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Mr. Frederick Locker has written: "When Arnold spoke to me of this poem he said, ‘I think Arthur wd have liked it.'”

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Poems of Wordsworth Chosen and Edited by Matthew Arnold. [Vignette of Wordsworth.] London, Macmillan and Co. 1879. 18mo.

Pp. xxxi+317.

Arnold in a letter dated April 14th, 1879, wrote: "Have nearly finished arranging my Wordsworth selection.” “It is delightful to have to occupy oneself with Wordsworth, and he will come out better and more effective in my arrangement, I think, than he has ever come out before." "I hope this collection of mine may win for him some appreciation on the Continent also. Wordsworth's body of work is superior to the body of work of any Continental poet of the last hundred years except Goethe.”

Presentation copy from the author to Frederick Locker, with autograph inscription. Portrait of Matthew Arnold inserted.

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Poetry of Byron chosen and arranged by Matthew Arnold. [Engraved statuette of Byron.] London. Macmillan and Co. 1881. Cr. 8vo. Pp. xxxvi +276.

In July, 1881, Arnold tells M. Fontanès: "You shall have a little volume which I have made up from Byron and published recently. The dear Dean [Stanley] liked the preface greatly."

On the Preface half-title the Editor has written, "To Frederick Locker. With kindest regards. M. A.”

Arnold was known at Oxford by his admirers as "the apostle of culture."
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AUSTEN, JANE. Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. In three volumes. By a Lady. Vol. I. [Vol. II.] [Vol. III.] London: Printed for the Author, By C. Roworth, Bell-yard... And Published by T. Egerton, Whitehall. 1811. Demy 12m0.

Each Vol. has Short Title and Title + respectively pp. 317, 278, and 301.

Writing on April 25th, 1811, she says: "No, indeed I am never too busy to think of S. and S. I can no more forget it than a mother can forget her sucking child. . . . I have had two sheets to correct, but the last only brings us to Willoughby's first appearance. . . . I have scarcely a hope of its being out in June." The novel had been written in 1796; its original MS. title was "Elinor and Marianne," and was her first published work, although written subsequently to "Pride and Prejudice."

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