From the Library

of

SIR EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR, KNT.,

D.C.L., F.R.S.,

The first Reader and Professor of Anthropology

in the University of Oxford.

Presented to the Radcliffe Trustees

by

DAME ANNA REBECCA TYLOR,

June, 1917.

Spectator" jau. 671883

THE WIT AND WISDOM OF LORD LYTTON.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,-In your notice of "The Wit and Wisdom of Lord
Lytton," you ask, with reference to myself, "Why did he not
remind us—though it be not always true-that 'the worst pos-
sible use you can put a man to is to hang him ?'" Will you let
me answer at once, for the simple reason that the Earl of Clar-
endon was the one who, early in the seventeenth century, when
descanting, "in his younger dayes," upon "The Disparity
between Buckingham and Essex," first employed the phrase
that "hanging was the worst use man could be put to." See
Reliquiæ Wottonianæ," p. 201, a rare collection, made, accord-
ing to its title-page, "by the curious pencil of the ever memor
able Sir Henry Wotton, Kt.,late Provost of Eaton College," and
originally published in 1651 by Izaac Walton.-I am, Sir, &c.,
Athenaeum Club, January 1st.
CHARLES KENT.

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tion of the paragraph in question, "in relation agony inflicted" (upon the human race), " is one heartening of all the moral symptoms of ou Sir, &c.,

Manchester, January 1st.

HEN

[We have always favoured experiments in ordinary diseases like cattle-plague, which inv illness at most, and hold out hope of an im against any serious epidemic. The inoculati a totally different thing, involving a very torture for a result which, even if attained would use, since the bite of a mad dog is probable enough to justify a serions, if not d tion. What would Professor Roscoe say o inducing diseases of the most agonising ch even in convicts under sentence of death? right have we to inflict these agonies on

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