[272] See Vol. I, page 44, note 9 {34} and page 110, note 5 {201}.

[273]

"If there's a man whom the judge's pitiless sentence awaiteth,

His head condemned to penalties and tribulations,

Let neither penitentiaries tire him with laborer's burdens

Nor let his stiffened hands be harrassed by work in the mines.

He must square the circle! For what else do I care?—all

Known punishments this one task hath surely included."

[274] Houlston was in the customs service. He also published Inklings of Areal Autometry, London, 1874.

[275] This is Frederick C. Bakewell. He had already published Natural Evidence of a Future Life (London, 1835), Philosophical Conversations (London, 1833, with other editions), and Electric Science (London, 1853, with other editions).