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Remember, my little fellow, the old saying, that 

 there are many men of many minds. "Facies non 

 omnibus una." What is pleasing to one critic, 

 is not always approved of by another. We are 

 informed by Ovid, that, even the Immortal Gods 

 themselves, in ancient times, took up the warlike 

 club, and, that, whilst one party of them advanced 

 to the attack of a town, another party stood up 

 in its defence. 



" Muleiber in Trojam, pro Troja stabat Apollo ; 

 (Equa Venus Teucris, Pallas iniqua fuit." 



Some writers march steadily along: — others 

 stumble in the road : — whilst others fall down 

 flat on their faces, never to rise again. 



Thy path, my boy, is rough and thorny : — be 

 careful of thy steps. " Cave ne titubes." Farewell, 

 once more, and may I hear that thou art prosperous. 



CHAKLES WATERTON. 



Walton Hall, 



July, 185T. 



