58 CONNECTION OF BATH WITH THE 



accomplished one of the most magnificent works to be 

 found in the literature of any nation, and who was 

 prevented from completing it only by a too early 

 death. There is a boldness of design about his 

 Reliquice Romance which excites the utmost respect 

 and admiration; a carelessness of expense; a de- 

 votedness of heart to a project, worthy of a great 

 mind to conceive ; and a taste and felicity in the 

 execution, which marks the native force and the cul- 

 tivated elegance of his mind. That the work is in- 

 complete arises from that which nothing can control. 

 But, while the fragment forms a splendid and suitable 

 monument to a truly illustrious man, it also stands to 

 the honour of Bath ; for it is to Bath, which has 

 treasured up so many of the remains of its former 

 magnificence, that the world owes the conception of 

 the grand design. May some other of our generous 

 youth, surveying beneath the roof of this edifice those 

 very remains which first struck the spark in the 

 breast of a Lysons, feel within him the ambition of 

 completing what has been so well begun! 



Among the names by Avhich Bath becomes con- 

 nected with the historical literature of England must 

 not be forgotten that of Pownall. The curious and 

 minute inquiries of Mr. Luders into points of English 

 history and the origin of peculiar political institutions, 

 place his name in an honourable rank among the 



