Art and Science 



my Frost, or put a locked clasp on Arvine, 

 my career must be extinguished. Give me 

 back Frost, and, if life and health are spared, 

 I will write another dozen of volumes yet 

 before I hang up my fiddle if so serious a 

 confusion of metaphors may be pardoned. I 

 know from long experience how kind and 

 considerate both the late and present super- 

 intendents of the reading-room were and are, 

 but I doubt how far either of them would be 

 disposed to help me on this occasion ; con- 

 tinue, however, to rob me of my Frost, and, 

 whatever else I may do, I will write no more 

 books. 



Note by Dr. Garnett, British Museum. 

 The frost has broken up. Mr. Butler is 

 restored to literature. Mr. Mudie may make 

 himself easy. England will still boast a 

 humourist ; and the late Mr. Darwin (to 

 whose posthumous machinations the removal 

 of the book was owing) will continue to be 

 confounded. R. GARNETT. 



