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Bicheno! Very comical ! As if Mr. Bicheno's call was to suffice. 

 No ! no ! " she then adds, with an outburst of orthodoxy worthy of 

 Dr. Johnson himself : "■ when the Jews march, it will be at God's 

 immediate and apparent command; and their Leader will not be a 

 Dissenting Teacher, I trow. What nonsense ! " — And again: when 

 the observation is made by Witherby that "the Christian and Jewish 

 religions are more united and combined than is in general imagined, 

 and when the gracious promises are fulfilled to the Jews, it will be a 

 great blessing to the Gentile Churches also — it will be to both as a 

 restoration to life, and the Gentile Churches will then assume a much 

 more Jewish appearance than they ever have done in times past — 

 Mrs. Piozzi remarks : " This man is the first to lay hold iipon the 

 skirts of a Jew, unless Mr. Cumberland has been beforehand with 

 him." (Richard Cumberland, author of a play entitled " The Jew," 

 and other comedies, is meant. Goldsmith called him the Terence of 

 England: he died in 1811.) — The Comenius above spoken of was 

 Joh. Amos Comenius, of Amsterdam. An English translation of his 

 "Orbis Pictus,"by Ch. Hoole, appeared in 1659. It was evidently a 

 nursery-book in Mrs. Piozzi's childhood. — The emphatic " No ! no !" 

 which we had in the mai-gin above, I observe in a letter addressed by 

 Mrs. Piozzi to her young friend, Wm. Aug. Conway, consoling him 

 under a severe disappointment received at the hands of a lady: "■ Do 

 not, however," she says, "fancy that she will ever be punished in 

 the way you mention. No ! no ! she'll wither on the thorny stem," 

 &c. The reverse exclamation appears in a letter to Sir J. Fellowes : 

 "Yes! yes!" she says, "when people will talk of what they know 

 nothing about, see what nonsense follows!" 



In connection with Dr. Parr it was stated that memoirs of him, 

 in two volumes, had been compiled by E. H. Barker, of Thetford. 

 The memory of this Mr Barker deserves to be perpetuated as that of 

 one who was among the first to favour a reform in the mediseval sys- 

 tem of mastering Latin and Greek which prevailed in English schools 

 at the begianing of the present century. He began to translate 

 grammars and lexicons from the Latin into the English tongue, 

 and to deviate from the general custom of annotating school books 

 in a language "not understanded of the people." He published for the 

 use of English students portions of the classics with copious English 

 notes, replete with illustrative matter of great interest. He edited, 

 in English, Stephens' Thesaurus of the Greek Language, a ponderous 

 work consisting of 11,752 double-column folio pages, and an English 



