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subtlety or deep penetration are continually 

 brought to our notice ; and all the more forcibly 

 because of the absence of any such intent on the 

 part of the fellow-pilgrim to whom we owe these 

 interesting notes of discussion. To examine the 

 details of these conversations would carry us be- 

 yond our limits, and would hardly be justified by 

 their intrinsic importance. One little point we 

 must note as characteristic, with regard to Mr. 

 Buckle's temperament as a historian. While Mr. 

 Stuart-Glennie seems to have his whole soul stirred 

 within him by the historic associations clustering 

 about the places visited, and is moved to reflec- 

 tions always interesting and often suggestive, Mr. 

 Buckle, on the ether hand, though sufficiently 

 alive to the beauties of nature, seems quite ob- 

 livious to historic memories. At the sepulchre 

 of Christ his thoughts were mainly on political 

 economy, " the state of society and the habits of 

 the people." In such trivial details some light is 

 thrown, perhaps, on that lack of intellectual sym- 

 pathy with the past which was one of Mr. Buckle's 

 most notable defects as a historian. 



But with all this intellectual narrowness and 

 looseness of texture, the narrative gives one a 

 very pleasant impression of Mr. Buckle person- 

 ally, and, furthermore, enables one to comprehend 



