Howell's Letters.

It was only in the next street, and a messenger was sent to him, with Sir Peter Howell's compliments, and a request to see him without a moment's delay.

The passage to which he refers is found in Howell's letter of Jan. 2, 1646 (book ii. letter 39), in which he writes to Porter:'You go on to prefer my captivity in this Fleet to that of a voyager at sea, in regard that he is subject to storms and springing of leaks, to pirates and picaroons, with other casualties.' See ante, iii. 242.

It is evident that he had laid under contribution such collections as Clerk's Adagio Latino-Anglica, Herbert's Jacula Prudentum, James Howell's collection of proverbs, David Fergtison's Scotch Proverbs (with the successively increasing editions between 1641 and 1706), Ray's famous Collection of English Proverbs, William Penn's Maxims, and the like.

You will find the Latin in Howell's "Survey of Venice," 1651,a book so thoroughly useless, and so scarce withal, that I am sure it must be in your library.

In Howell's time, Canary wine was much adulterated.

Howell's Conflicts of Capital and Labour, p. 207.

Mr. Howell's unsupported word had lost out against a scar.

"In view of Howell's testimony, it's ridiculous!

He could not understand the defense letting the case go to the jury without their putting more stress on Mr. Howell's story.

Mama died and Green Roscoe, my older brother, took me to Howell's so they would raise me.

Thus an ordinary reader would lose his way in Howell's State Trials, at the second page, "from the number of volumes, smallness of print, &c." "A Londoner might as well take a morning walk through an Illinois prairie, or dash into a back-settlement forest, without a woodman's aid."

The principal items of Mr. Howell's testimony will be found in another place.

The principal items of Mr. Howell's testimony will be found in another place.

[Footnote 7: The case of James Somerset on habeas corpus, in Howell's State Trials, XX, §548.]

[Footnote 1: The source of this error lies doubtless in Lord Mansfield's famous but fallacious decision of 1772 in the Somerset case, which is recorded in Howell's State Trials, XX, § 548.

Sir,In Howell's Letters, Sect.

To J.J., who inquires about "Whelps," and refers to Howell's Letters, sect.

Howell's State Trials, Somerset's Case, iii. 87, n. 3.

Howell's textbook of physiology.

Howell's textbook of physiology.

(From Howell's Letters, 1647.)

"Montaigne and 'Howell's Letters'," says Thackeray, in one of the "Roundabout Papers," "are my bedside books."

"Where have you been?" "I've been workin' out on Howell's ranch," replied Lizzie, "diggin' post-holes while I was gittin' my strength back.