" Mr. Bumstead is surprised at this specimen of the art of an AGASSIZ and WATERHOUSE HAWKINS in such a mortary old man, and his intellectual pride causes him to resolve at once upon a rival display.

" "Why should the defendant," asked Mr. Hawkins at the close of one of the day's speeches, "if he were Sir Roger, avoid Arthur Orton's sisters?

"I shall attack the noble army of Carabineers," said Mr. Hawkins on another occasion.

Boswell regarded poor Sir John Hawkins with all the animosity of a rival author, and with some spice of wounded vanity.

Porson with admirable humour satirised Hawkins for his attack on Barber.

George S. Hawkins of Florida.

Apocryphal stories are always told of celebrated men, and of no one more than of Sir Henry Hawkins during his career on the Bench and at the Bar; but I venture to say that there is no doubtful story in this volume, and, further, that there is not one which has ever been told exactly in the same form before.

In 1828, Newman had preferred Hawkins to Keble, for Provost. Apol.

But the stewards see nothing of betting or money, As they stand in the blinkers for stewards devised; Their blindness may strike Henry Hawkins as funny, But he only smiles softlyhe isn't surprised.