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hat with the word "Pop" stamped on it in sealing-wax, and a Commonplace Book containing many interesting entries. Among these recurs again and again the phrase "O mine enemy," showing that Jas ruminated uneasily and with intelligence over the hand that was in the fullness of time to strike him from the lists of Man. He seems to have had an idée fixe that this person and his associates could at will turn themselves into motes of dust dancing in the sun, an unfair advantage that made James's nights restless. The volume, which is in a dilapidated condition and bears witness to having spent some time in sea-water includes joltings, cries from the heart that he is alone among uncultured companions and about the barrenness of fame, and is not in its mournful cadences untinged by the melancholy of the Greeks in their greatest period. Compare one of the noblest passages in Sophocles upon the nothingness of everything with this terrible line "Better perhaps that Hook had never been born."
Of more interest to the vulgar, to whom this paper must after all make its chief appeal, will be Jas Hook's last Will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a shyster, or landshark, of Rio. By this he leaves everything to Eton, but in a covering letter he instructs her first to find out whether such a legacy would be pleasing to the Governing Body, and, if not, to keep the treasure herself. The Governing Body, it seems, had samples, and so all passed to Miss xxx, who told me with a faint flush that not to accept them would
