ESSAYS,

OLD AND NEW.

BY

CHARLES TOMLINSON, F.R.S.

Tantost ie resve, tantost i'enregistre et dicte, en me promenant,
mes songes que voicy.

-MONTAIGNE, Liv. iii., Ch. 3.

One while I meditate, another I record, and dictate as I walk
to and fro, such whimsies as these I present you here.
-COTTON'S Translation.

شرحه

WILLIAMS AND NORGATE,
HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN,

LONDON, W.C.

1887.

EACH of the following Essays (except the first) written for the purpose of inciting various social gatheri of Friends to discussion. The plan of reading an Es and afterwards discussing it, has proved in the Auth experience, during many years, to be a most attrac mode of passing an evening. In the hope of encourag so useful a practice these Essays are printed, chiefly circulation among the Author's Friends and Acquaintan and also as a sort of leave-taking on the part of a who has entered on his seventy-ninth year.