"THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY."
[To TEE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTAT0R:2] SIE,—In speaking of Jeremy Taylor in your notice of the new volume of "The Dictionary of National Biography," in the Spectator of July 16th, you attribute to that worthy prelate the famous expression, "Probability is the guide of life." Surely this hi,,toric phrase belongs to Bishop Butler, who maintains in the introduction to the "Analogy," "to us, pro- bability is the very guide of life." The saintly Jeremy, how- ever, is responsible for many shrewd observations which attest the strong, practical side of his character, notably his great declaration—helpful and suggestive to many of the sore vexed since his days—that that stone was not spent in vain which a man threw at a dog, and missed the dog, but hit his (the man's) mother-in-law and killed her.—I am, Sir, &c., Loxtcm Beetory, Somerset, July 20th. Jorm E. PAGE.
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