" XIII OF NEWSPAPERS Father Payne was a very irregular reader of the newspaper; he was not greedy of news, and he was incurious about events, while he disliked the way in which they were professionally dished up for human consumption.

We were going to put the bit in our mouths again, and Father Payne was an unknown quantity.

(5) Mr. John Howard Payne was author of Brutus, or the Fall of Tarquin, an Historical Tragedy, criticized in the Quarterly for April, 1820.

I have no wish to idealise my subject unduly, but it is clear to me, and I hope I have made it clear to others, that Father Payne was a man who had a very definite theory of life and faith, and who at all events lived sincerely and even passionately in the light of his beliefs.

Father Payne was a somewhat irregular responder, but it was a pleasure to sit near him, because his deep, rapid voice gave a new quality to the words.

Father Payne himself was a regular attendant at church, and Sunday was a decidedly leisurely day.

Barthrop once said to me that Father Payne was the only person he knew who always talked in italics.