MR.

ARTHUR BALFOUR _"A sceptre once put into the hand, the grip is instinctive; and he who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft."_--J.R.

LOWELL.
In one of the _Tales_ Crabbe introduces to us a young lady, Arabella by name, who read Berkeley, Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke and was such a prodigy of learning that she became the wonder of the fair town in which, as he tells us, she shone like a polished brilliant.

From that town she reaped, and to that town she gave, renown: And strangers coming, all were taught t'admire The learned Lady, and the lofty Spire.
One feels that in Mr.Balfour there is something of both the learned Lady and the lofty Spire.

He is at once spinsterish and architectural.