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tkeological writer of considerable note. — In the Prsefatio of Gronovius 

 I canght sight of an unexpected and rather odd reference to an Otchib- 

 way word, familiar enough to ourselves. Manetho, or Manethos, he 

 says, was a name common in Egypt, whence it may have passed over 

 to America, where, travellers inform us, "Manetoe" means an evil 

 spirit. (Patet id nomen crebrum illic fuisse, unde promanarit 

 'Manetoe' dici malum genium docent itineraria.) I have seen else- 

 where grave speculations on a connection between Manitou and 

 Menes, Menu, Minos, Mannus, Manes, &c. 



A contemporary of these learned divines jiist named — and himself 

 a learned divine — was Dr. Chalmers, who lived from T780 to 1847. 

 I introduce here a sentence or two from a letter of his now lying 

 before me, addressed to the late Bishop of Toronto, Dr. Strachan.' 

 He says: ""We were all much pleased with your son; he seems cast 

 in the very mould of his profession, having all the chivalry and gal- 

 lant spirit of a thorough soldier. * * But what pleased me most was the 

 evident affection and feeling wherewith he spoke of yourself, and of 

 his pui'pose to visit St. Andi^ews and Professor Duncan, because of 

 your connection with them." Dr. Chalmers' handwiiting is execrable. 

 I possess also a brief note of Edward Irving, addressed to Dr. Strachan. 

 I produce a volume which was once the property of Bishop Wilson, 

 of Calcutta. It was presented by him to the Rev. C. Winstanley, 

 who was for some years a resident of Toronto. It shows the follow- 

 ing Latin inscription in the Bishop's handwriting : " Carolo Win- 

 stanley, in amicitise gratique animi pignus, D.D. Danielus Wilson, 

 1812." The work itself is Luther's Commentary on the Second Psalm, 

 in Latin, edited by Johannes Jacobus Rambachius, and printed at 

 Halle in 1728. I observe that Rambach, in his Preface, contends 

 for the scholarship of Luther : " Teste Philippo Melancthone," he 

 says, "Ciceronem, Virgilium, Livium aliosque latinitatis antistites, 

 legendo sibi familiarissimos reddiderat. Quod vero historicos insuper 

 Grsecos et Latinos, quod Platonem, Aristotelem, aliosque prisci tevi 

 philosophos exploratos habuerit; id vero frequentiores sententise, quas 

 ex illis decerptas scriptis suis passim inspergit, abunde testantur." 

 Luther especially liked the ancient poets, Rambach says, and Yirgil 

 was selected to be his one companion when he retired into the monas- 

 tery of Erdfort. "Imprimis poetas, stili politioris magistros, in 

 deliciis habuit, interque eos maxima Yirgilium, quem, quum relictis 

 libris omnibus in monasterium Erfordise se abderet, solum secum 

 retinuit, ac postea ssepius non laudavit solum aliisque commendavit, 



