14 JOURNAL OP THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Mr. Anthony Trollope's recent death has attracted special notice 
to his writings, which evince indeed no signs of genius, but are 
evidently the painstaking work of a typical and genial English 
gentleman. 
Of living novelists, we may mention in terms of praise Mrs. 
Oliphant, the authoress of so many well-known and graceful 
writings; and Mr. Shorthouse, author of John Inglesant, which 
made some noise a year or two ago as a philosophical and religious 
romance. 
The cultivation of Literature, together with Science and Art, is 
the object for which the Plymouth Institution was established; 
and in the dissemination of literary knowledge, and the diffusion 
of the literary spirit, it enjoys a history of which we have no 
reason to be anything but proud. During the years of my own 
membership we have had among us men of good natural abilities, 
of refined taste, and highly-cultivated minds, combined with all 
those graces of character that add affection to admiration, and love 
to respect — men to whom we were accustomed to point when we 
wanted to show how rich and valuable were the results of culture, 
and especially how the cultivation of Literature tends to elevate 
and refine. Some such we have still among us, but many are 
gone ; we touch their hand, we hear their voice, no more. Such 
men cannot be too highly esteemed. They show us how life 
should be lived, and they help us to live it; for, to quote the 
words of another, with only the change of sex, "To love her was 
a liberal education." In such a connection perhaps it would be 
wiser not to mention names, leaving the exemplification to the 
memory and imagination of each ; yet there are a few to whose 
memory, not only inclination, but even duty, seems to demand 
that a tribute should be paid, however brief. From the walls of 
this room one is looking down upon us with all the grace of the 
refined Christian gentleman and the intellectual power of the 
earnest student, but with more bodily strength and fire in his eye 
than he had, alas ! when he was present at our discussions for the 
last time. In Dr. Tregelles we lost, not only a Biblical critic of 
European reputation, but a friend whose kindly help and well- 
stored library were always at our disposal. His edition of the 
Greek Testament, for which some of our members became sub- 
scribers, gained for him the honour of being appointed a Consulting 
