386 Mr. W. E. Pollock on Dimas Pere. [April 23. 



maidens, yet there is some of his writing which is stainless, and 

 where is there an author of the same calibre who has written ex- 

 clusively for boys and maidens ? His method was at any rate, like 

 that of the play-writer quoted by Hamlet, * an hcmest method ' ; he 

 did not palter, as the modern French school of play-writing does, 

 with vice and virtue, keeping one foot in the dominion of earth, and 

 casting a false glamour of splendour around corruption. He made 

 immense sums, and unhappily spent them more easily than he got 

 them. He was open-handed to a fault. He had a child-like vanity 

 and a child-like simplicity mixed with a curious astuteness. His 

 name will I think live, and his work be rated at its proper value 

 long after the efforts of his detractors are forgotten." 



[W. H. P.] 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, April 30th, 1880. 



Thomas Boycott, M.D. F.L.S. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



G. J. EoMANEs, Esq. F.E.S. 



Mental Evolution. 



(Abstract deferred.) 



