rgin. Yours,
etc., G. WALTON.

Horace Walpole, in one of his papers in "The World," praises the following
letter, written by Lady Pembroke in the reign of Charles II. I quote from
memory, but think that Lady Pembroke wrote to Lord Arlington, who had
insisted on her allowing Sir Joseph Williamson to be returned member for
her borough of Appleby:

SIR--I have been bullied by a usurper,
I have been neglected by a court, but I will
not be dictated to by a subject. Your man
sha'n't stand. ANNE PEMBROKE.

I have some memory of a story that some person wrote to the first Duke of
Wellington, threatening to publish certain letters of his, and that he
replied:

DEAR JULIA--Publish and be damned.
Yours, WELLINGTON.

When Lord John Russell announced the breaking up of Earl Grey's cabinet
on May 27, 1834, Mr. Stanley, colonial secretary, wrote the following to
Sir James Graham, first lord of the Admiralty:

MY DEAR G.--Johnny has upset the coach.
Yours, etc.

Sir Walter Scott said that the most pointed letter he knew was the answer
of Lord Macdonald to the head of the Glengarry family:

MY DEAR GLENGARRY--As soon as you
can prove yourself to be _my chief_, I shall
be ready to acknowledge you; in the meantime,
I am _yours_, MACDONALD.

The following is quoted as Francis Jeffrey's wicked reply to a begging
letter:

Sir--I have received your letter of
6th inst., soliciting a contribution in behalf
of the funds of ----. I have very
great pleasure in subscribing [with this
word the writer contrived to end the first
page, and then continued overleaf] myself,

Yours faithfully,

FRANCIS JEFFREY.

A certain lady having written to Talleyrand informing him of the death of
her husband, he replied:

DEAR MARQUISE--Alas! Your devoted
TALLEYRAND.

At a later date the same lady wrote telling him of her approaching
marriage. To this he replied:

DEAR MARQUISE--Ho, ho! Your devoted
TALLEYRAND.

BRAHMA.

THE SUBTLE VERSES IN WHICH EMERSON GAVE EXPRESSION TO THE MYSTICISM
INVESTING HINDU RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY.

The four stanzas composing Emerson's poem "Brahma" afford perhaps in the
smallest compass the best example of the Concord philosopher's subtle mode
of expression with a meaning so elusive as to require careful thought on
the reader's part to render it intelligible.

There is a pleasing vagueness which the music of the lines i