The Discourses are not systematic in their character, and, even if they were, the loss of the last four books would prevent us from working out their system with any completeness.

Trollope was the most industrious and systematic of modern novelists, writing a definite amount each day, and the wide range of his characters suggests the Human Comedy of Balzac.

Mr. Rushton, more systematic than his Lordship, has been also more careful; and from the pages of both we suppose that there might be selected a round hundred of phrases which could be fairly considered as having been used by Shakespeare with a consciousness of their original technicality and of their legal purport.

The arrangements for instruction are rather more systematic at Harvard, but Yale has several valuable articles of apparatusas the rack-bars and the series of ringswhich have hardly made their appearance, as yet, in Massachusetts, though considered indispensable in New York.