[656] Edwin Dunkin revised Lardner's Handbook of Astronomy (1869) and Milner's The Heavens and the Earth (1873) and wrote The Midnight Sky (1869).
[657] Michael Faraday (1791-1867) the celebrated physicist and chemist. He was an assistant to Sir Humphrey Davy (1813) and became professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, London, in 1827.
[658] "If you teach a fool he shows no joyous countenance; he cordially hates you; he wishes you buried."
[659] "Every man is an animal, Sortes is a man, therefore Sortes is an animal."
"May some choice patron bless each grey goose quill;
May every Bavius have his Bufo still."—Pope, Prologue to the Satires.
Bavius has become proverbial as a bad poet from the lines in Vergil's Eclogues (III, 90):
"Qui Bavium non odit, amet tua carmina, Maevi,
Atque idem jungat vulpes, et mulgeat hircos."