C. was a close hunksa hoarder rather than a miseror, if a miser, none of the mad Elwes breed, who have brought discredit upon a character, which cannot exist without certain admirable points of steadiness and unity of purpose.

John Elwes, the miser (1714-1789), whose Life was published in 1790 after running through The Worldthe work of Topham, that paper's editor, who is mentioned in Lamb's essay on "Newspapers.

Edward Topham (1751-1820), author of the Life of John Elwes, the miser, founded The World, a daily paper, in 1787.

Croft, in his Life of Young (Johnson's Works, viii. 453), says that 'Young and his housekeeper were ridiculed with more ill-nature than wit in a kind of novel published by Kidgell in 1755, called The Card, under the name of Dr. Elwes and Mrs. Fusby.' Memoirs of Philip Doddridge, ed. 1766, p. 171.

But Elwes, the miserugh!

It was her form of selfishness to enjoy the luxury of spending money she hadn't got, just as it was Elwes's form of selfishness to enjoy the luxury of saving money that he had got.

An English translation of The Chief Works of Spinoza has been given by Elwes, 1883-84; a translation of the Ethics by White, 1883; and one of selections from the Ethics, with notes, by Fullerton in Sneath's Modern Philosophers, 1892.

The avarice of Elwes, the insane desire of Sir Egerton Brydges for a barony to which he had no more right than to the crown of Spain, the malevolence which long meditation on imaginary wrongs generated in the gloomy mind of Bellingham, are instances.

By Alfred Elwes.

ELWES, H. T., Fir Bank, East Grimstead.