sticity. The chief exception is Faulkland, and there are also David,
Julia, and Lucy.

In _St Patrick's Day_ we have Dr Rosy, Justice Credulous, Sergeant
Trounce, Corporal Flint. The hero, Lieutenant O'Connor, is the principal
exception.

Finally, in _The School for Scandal_, we have Sir Peter Teazle (which
suggests a prickly irritable nature), as well as names with a more
obvious meaning, _e.g._, Joseph Surface, Sir Benjamin Backbite, Snake,
Careless, Sir Harry Bumper, Lady Sneerwell, and Mrs Candour.

The other characters have names without meanings, _e.g._, Rowley, Moses,
Trip, and Maria. The fact that the very different characters, Charles
and Joseph Surface, necessarily bear the same surname shows how difficult
it is to carry out a system such as that on which Sheridan's nomenclature
is based.

THOMAS HEARNE, 1678-1735

To the everyday reader Thomas Hearne, if at all, is chiefly known by the
Diary which he kept for thirty years, viz., from 1705 when he was
twenty-seven years of age, until his death. This, in 145 volumes, is
preserved in the Bodleian Library, and is, I believe, in course of
publication. What I have to say is founded on Bliss's _Reliquiae
Hearnianae_, {29a} which consists of extracts from the above-mentioned
diary. Mr Bliss naturally selected passages referring to well-known
books or persons of note; but he was wise enough to include what a
pompous editor would have omitted as trifling. It is these which are
especially valuable to one who tries to give a picture of Hearne's simple
and lovable character.

The following account of Thomas Hearne, written by himself, is from the
Appendix to vol. i. of _The Lives of John Leland_, _Thomas Hearne_, _and
Anthony a Wood_, 1772. {29b}

Thomas was the son of George Hearne, Parish Clerk of White Waltham,
Berks. He was born at Littlefield Green "within the said parish of White
Waltham." Thomas, "being naturally inclined to Learning, he soon became
Master of the English Tongue." {30a}

Even when a boy Hearne was "much talked of," and this "occasioned that
Learned Gentleman, Francis Cherry, {30b} Esq., to put him to the Free
School of Bray {30c} in Berks on purpose to learn the Latin Tongue, which
his Father was not entirely Master of; this was about the beginning of
the year 1693." "Not only the Master himself, but all the other Boys had
a very particular Respect for him, and could not but admire and applaud
his Industry and Application