1921] on Chronicles of Cornhill 403 



And this, he adds, is " the Thackeray touch," which has never 

 forsaken the " Cornhill." 



Herein, then, lies the secret of the tradition which the i€ Cornhill " 

 has received from its literary ancestors, and trusts to hand down to 

 its literary descendants. In the art of letters, as in the art of life, 

 form holds equal place with substance. Literature is the tool of 

 thought, the weapon of feeling, and in tool or weapon perfection of 

 form excludes clumsiness and excesses that are equally ugly and in- 

 effective. What we call style enriches the thought and clarifies the 

 feeling which it unites. If, as Buffon said, style is the man himself, 

 the impersonal presented through the personal sum of feeling, experi- 

 ence and reflection, then it is the cumulative choice of jwork endued 

 with this quality that produces " Cornhill's " characteristic spirit of 

 humane letters. To preserve this spirit is our trad tion and our 

 endeavour ; to let it perish would be treachery to the present as well 

 as to the past. 



[L. H.] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 6, 1921. 



Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D. LL.D. J.P. F.R.S., 



Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Miss Gertrude Caton-Thompson, 

 Sir John Collie, M.D. C.M.G. J.P. 

 Norman George Hallett, 

 Henry Rondel Le Sueur, D.Sc. 

 Mrs. Sidney Turner, 

 James Whitehead, 

 Leonard Williams, M.D. 



were elected Members. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to Sir David 

 Salomons, Bart., for his valuable presents of a privately printed Life 

 and Study of A. L. Breguet, Member of the Academy of Sciences, 

 Paris ; Arago's Watch ; A Mysterious Watch ; Watch, by Leroy, 

 of Paris, 1820 ; First Working Aneroid, made by Vidi, 1857 ; and 

 Models illustrating the Development of the Chick ; and to Sir 

 Humphry Davy Rolleston, for his valuable Gift of a Davy Safety 

 Lamp. 



