We should not wonder if Mr. Beresford Hope had added
a new word to the language. There is no Saxon word in it at present meaning liberal or generous—a curious fact, for there is a capital word, "churlish," to express the opposite quality ; but Mr. Hope may possibly have supplied one in this story. Walking up Goadhurst Hill, he found a bit of iron dropped from some machine, and deposited it at the nearest cottage, observing that the owner of the iron might give the housewife something for restoring it. "Oh!" said she, "I don't know that ; hereabouts they are not very givish." Mr. Hope thought a spirit of " givish- ness " would settle the land question, but was entirely disinclined to display that quality in the matter of leases. The lessee and lessor were always enemies, and he preferred tenancies-at-will. Does he particularly hate the freeholder .af his London house, or would he like to occupy that as a tenant-at-will? if not, why does the tenancy-at-will of a farm seem to him so conducive to sympathy, or any other Christian virtue,—except, indeed, humbleness ?
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