INCLOSED I have sent a draw. ing, by Mr. Lynes, of Little Saling Church, in Essex (see Plate 1.) The Tower is circular, and remarkably curious and elegant. The height of it is 22 yards, and the diameter of the circle, 5 The only description I have it in my power to give you of the Church itself is, that originally it was a Chapel of Ease to Great Bardfield, from which eircumstance, the Hamlet or Parish is now called Bardfield Saling, as well as Little Saling; and I believe it was also called Bardfield juxta Saling. The Church or Chapel was dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, March 12, 1880, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Pisa, who performed that ceremony for the Bishop of London. It is now a Donative in the gift of Bartlett Goodrich, esq. and at present is enjoyed by the Rev. William Bradbury, M. A. Vicar of Great Saling. T. JEE. Feb. 1S. · Καὶ τραυμάτων μὲν εἰ τόσων ἐτύγχανεν Eschyl. Agam. 875. seqq. ed. Schutz. But among all these accusations I cannot help observing that the one which would have carried the greatest weight, and to which I think every reflecting person would instantly have given his assent, has been passed over in silence. I mean the omission in the existing statutes of a separate class for those who may distinguish themGENT. MAG. May, 1911. selves in Divinity and Hebrew. I shall only ask these simple questions: Are not the generality of those undergraduates who study at Oxford, intended for the Church? And is it not better for those who are intended for the Church to be well skilled in Hebrew and Divuily, with a moderate knowledge of the classics and sciences, than to have spent their whole time on the productions of antiquity, which, however excellent in themselves, cannot by any means be compared by Christians with that Holy Volume which can alone make them wise to salvation? Since this is the case (1 take it for granted no man can conscientiously answer in the negative to those questions) we must allow there is a most palpable and notorious negJect in the present statutes. But we ought not to forget that Rome was not built in a day, and that sufficient time has scarce yet elapsed for the University to feel and consider the effects of her existing examinationsEre long, however, I trust, the finishing stroke will be put to the present statutes, and that the study of Hebrew, so essential to clergymen, will at least be considered of equal importance with the classics and sciences. The knowledge of Hebrew would not only point out to the rising generation the errors and inconsistencics of our authorised version, but also instruct them in many internal proofs of the veracity of our religion, which those only who are well read in Hebrew can possibly be acquainted with. It would be useless in me to urge any thing farther respecting the μιy of the study of Hebrew, thing which carries conviction with itself. Suffice it to say, that with the knowledge of that sacred language, the prosperity of the Christian Church has risen and fallen; and, consequently, that the University of Oxford, as the guardian and bulwark of religion, is in a twofold manner bound to protect it; add to this, that the most wise in all ages have considered the Hebrew to be the most antient language, and that inexhaustible ocean from whence the Greek and Latin, Persian and Arabic, &c. have derived their source; rivulets, indeed, highly ornamented, but not to be compared to the simple majestic parent from whom they have sprung. QXONIENSIS. Mr. I directed a carpenter to make for me, of fine wood, a gauge (or gage, as it is pronounced), nine inches long, two inches broad, and half a quarter of an inch thick, having rather more than an inch of the middle part cut away, except about an inch at one end. This gage I laid at the top of my paper or book, which I found should be of some thickness, to render it sufficiently tangible, in order to square it exactly with my gage: that is, it should consist of several folded sheets or pages, that, by the feelth (for the sake of perspicuity, to coin a word) the gage, at commencing, might be placed even. This done, within the open space of the gage, I wrote two lines, being assured, in the first line, * I presume in being pardoned for introducing a few verbal alterations in this fine passage of Milton, to make it amalgamate with my subject. that I was going on right, by the pen's occasionally touching the upper part of the gage, in making the long strokes upwards (as in letters b, d, h, &c.) and, in the second live, being assured that I was right, by the pea's touching the lower part of the gage, in making the long strokes downwards (as in the letters g, j, y, &c.). When the two lines were finished, I placed a very thin slip of smoothly-planed wood, of the same breadth as the gage (but rather longer), upon the part next to be written on, close below the gage, taking care not to move it till I put the gage upon it; and then, (by means of a perforated notch) I gently drew it away, at the end where it was rather longer than the gage. This being done, I wrote two lines more, in the manner just described, and so on till I had filled my page. Although I used a common pen, made to yield the ink freely, it seldom failed to leave its trace, as I was miudful to dip it into an inkstand properly supplied (without cotton) at the end of every line. But an ingenious contrivance called a Fountain Pen will do better, and never deceive the sightiess writer. That others may derive that comfort or recreation from the simple expedient, which, while in a state of darkness, it afforded me, is the sincere L. BOOKER. wish of 1811.] Old Correspondent to John Carter.-Scotch Felie beg. 419 no moment." John thought the same; but by what name does Solomon describe the man who scatters firebrands, and says, "Am I not in jest?" but I have done. I must not, however, pass over the charge of forgetfulness brought against me, in regard to John's explanation respecting the arch.-Forget it, John? Never. Neither 1, nor your friends, nor your enemies, will ever forget it, as long as you shall sign yourself AN ARCHITECT. No, nor your knitting together Henry's Chapel by the fingers of angels; for knitted, knatted, knotted, or netted, it would be equally nonsense. But, Mr. Urban, my principal reason for troubling you with this is, to answer the requisition for signing my own name-a chailenge that comes with a very ill grace from a man, who under the fictitious signature of a Architect has been traducing the whole profession for these twenty years. But he now proclaims that the I only reArchitect is John Carter. quest that I may retain my fictitious signature as long as John has retained his and at the termination of the same period, if John and I are alive, I may, perhaps, gratify his curiosity. But he says his support depends upon his architectural knowledge, which I have traduced. The term is equivocal; for, if he means the practical and mechanical part of this knowledge, it is true that I never have allowed him to possess it: but if he means architectural drawing, or a knowledge of antiquities, I have ever admitted it with the most perfect candour; for, however this may be disputed by others, I do assure him, that I did not write the letter in your journal for March, signed “J. R, Thompson, Short's Buildings, Clerkenwell,' One word more: he calls me a retainer of the Master Workman: Janswer that have never received a retaining fee the character, credit, and ability of that Artist, I have maintained against all John Carter's attacks for these seven years; they want my assistance no longer; let his works speak for themselves; they are now open to every eye, and I have never walked through Palace Yard since, when John Carter was not there, that I ever heard a single spectator speak of them without admiration in the extreme: if John will still traduce them, he shall be answered, as long as he and AN OLD CORRESPONDENT. P. S. Pray, Mr. Urban, do inquire of John Carter, and inform us next month, what is meant by an offspring of the brain without a father, nursed in the gloom of bigotry, and antiantiquarian predilection? To me it is as unintelligible as Diskram-Bethan -utos. Mr. URBAN, A Inverness-shire, May 1. FTER perusing Mr. Carter's letter in page 631 of your last Volume, I found my memory awakened to a letter which I had read some years ago in the Edinburgh Magazine for March 1785. The letter is from Mr. Evan Baillie of Oberiaehan, Inverness-shire, a most worthy and very sensible gentleman, and a lawyer of great accuracy and strict punctilio in all his transactions and assertions. The letter is dated March 22, 1768. In it he says that the felie beg, or little kilt, is rather of a late than antient usage. Mr. Baillie asserts it to be the invention of one Thomas Rawlinson, an Englishman engaged in carrying on iron works in Glengany and Lochaber, 50 years before he wrote, with whom he was acquainted, and who introduced it among his workmen, from whose example it soon became common. Mr. Baillie never saw the kilt in use till the year 1725, when he came to reside in Inverness-shire, his native county, after having passed a few years in Edinburgh; nor did he ever before hear such a piece of dress mentioned even by his father (who was a very sensible highland gentleman) though he was born as far back I therefore judge that the as 1655. present dress of our Highland soldiers is quite different from the antient costume of any part of Scotland, which I apprehend consisted of jackets and trowsers; indeed I believe that the journal of an English officer who came with the Protector Somerset to the battle of Pink, mentions the dress of the Scotch soldiers to be sheep-skin jackets and trowsers, without the least mention of kiits, plaids, or tartan, The Scotch bonnet I believe to be probably much the same as that in use some centuries ago in England and où the continent, before the introduction of hats. As to tartan, I cannot say when |