CHAPTER XXIV.
ANTIQUARIANA.
My most literary antiquarianism was an article I wrote for the _Quarterly Review_ on Coins, accepted by Lockhart and inserted in one of the Nos.

for 1843; he protested that "I could not be the Proverbial Philosopher, as my looks were too like David's,--it must be my father."-- No, I replied, it is my father's son.

However, when he read and approved my Coin article, he began to be convinced.

I give here his letter to me on his acceptance:-- "Sir,--I am at present terribly overburdened with MSS., and know not whether I can send a proof of your paper for some weeks; but I like it much, and it shall be put into type as soon as I can manage.

I assure you I am greatly pleased, and sincerely your obliged "J.G.