If he could only have been made a cardinal! You see the longing for it in his very features, and can't help regarding him with mingled respect and pity." Of Thomas a Kempis, the recluse of Deventer: "A fine fellow, but hazy, and weak betimes.

He and his school tend (as some one has well said) to make humility and humiliation change places." Finally, of the Bible: "The three best translations of the Bible, in my opinion, are, in order of merit, the English, the Dutch, and Diodati's Italian version.

As to Luther, he is admirable in rendering the prophets.

He says either just what the prophets _did say_, or that which you see at once they _might have said_." Leyden has two vast churches, St.Peter's and St.Pancras's.

Both are immense and unadorned, I think that St.Pancras's is the lightest church I was ever in.