vitute
diversa, simul dicant uni Deo, et Patri omnium; Pater Noster qui
es, &c., sicut unum Patrem invocantes, ita unam santificationem
quaerentes, unum regnum postulantes, unam adimpletionem
voluntatis ejus, sicut fit in coelo optantes; unum sibi panem
quotidianum dari precantes et omnibus dimitti debita."

To which other passages might be added, as, in fact, S. Agobard pursues
the one idea until he hunts it down to the one effect of sameness and
common antithesis. Should we say Lord Plunket had read these passages,
and is thereby convicted of eloquent plagiary? I say, No! Lauder then
equally convicted Milton of trespassing on the thoughts of others, by
somewhat apposite quotations from the classics. We are, in truth, too
much inclined to this. The little, who cannot raise themselves to the
stature of the great, are apt to strive after a socialist level, by
reducing all to one same standard--their own. Truth is common to all
ages, and will obtain utterance by the truthful and the eloquent
throughout all time.

S.H.

Athenaeum, August 12.

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NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON

14. _Long Acre._ Mr. Cunningham, upon the authority of Parton's _History
of St. Giles's_, says:

"First known as the Elms, then called Seven Acres, and since
1612, from the length of a certain slip of ground, then first
used as a public pathway, as Long Acre."

The latter part of this statement is incorrect. The Seven Acres were
known as _Long Acre_ as early as 1552, when they were granted to the
Earl of Bedford. See _Strype_, B. vi. p. 88.

Machyn, in his _Diary_, printed by the Camden Society, p. 21., under the
date A.D. 1556, has the following allusion to the _Acre_:

"The vj day of December the Abbot of Westminster went a
procession with his convent. Before him went all the Santuary
men with crosse keys upon their garments, and after went iij for
murder: on was the Lord Dacre's sone of the North, was wypyd
with a shett abowt him for kyllyng of on Master West, squyre,
dwellyng besyd ... and anodur theyff that dyd long to one of
Master Comtroller ... dyd kylle Recherd Eggylston the
Comtroller's tayller, and kylled him in the _Long Acurs_, the
bak-syd Charyng Crosse."

15. _Norfolk House, St. James's Square._ The present Norfolk House was
built from a design by R. Brettingham, in 1742, by Thoma