an "evil" one; and black greasy hair which was naturally quite straight, but which he used to have curled regularly every morning. He used to say, that he had the mathematical organ very finely developed in his head. But however that might be, I know well that he had certain other organs exceedingly large. What these are to which I allude, the reader will be able to judge for himself by the time I have done with Mr. Judson. But should he even then be in doubt, he will find some fine specimens of the developement in question on the heads of some of the felons, who, being less successful in their undertakings than Mr. Judson, terminate their career at the Old Bailey. I confess that I took a dislike to the outward and visible portion of my Tutor, even before I had an opportunity of forming a very correct judgment respecting the value of his inner man. Not so my brother. Probably, indeed, the Reverend Mr. Judson, for he was in orders, laboured far more to ingratiate himself with the heir apparent of the powerful and opulent house of Plantagenet, than he was likely to do with a landless, livingless, and expectationless younger brother. However that might be, the result was apparent. He became more and more assiduous in his attention and obsequiousness to my brother. I said, that at first he showed a disposition to ingratiate himself with both of us. Probably he was then but feeling his ground,-observing how the land lay; for while his behaviour towards my brother was such as I have described, he began to treat me either with harshness or neglect. He even showed dispositions to proceed to personal chastisement; but I soon put a stop to that. The first time he attempted it, I threw a candlestick at his head with such force and precision of aim, that had he not made a sudden stoop, there was a very fair prospect of its demolishing his mathematical bump for ever. He made no more advances towards the offensive in that line of strategy; but he laid a complaint against me with my father, who reprimanded me for my contumacious behaviour, having, from my brother's report, conceived a favourable opinion of Judson. The consequence of all this was, that I became every day more and more estranged from the society of my brother, who passed much of his time in that of Judson. They walked together, rode together, pursued all their amusements and occupations together, very seldom, if ever, asking me to join them. I gradually began to find myself of less and less importance in my father's house. I was left out of every scheme of amusement—of every party of pleasure. I began, as was to be expected, to find this by no means agreeable; and perhaps not the less so, that it was conducted in such a way as to prevent my making any direct reprisals. Judson's manner towards me was smooth and placid; and my brother, probably profitting by the lessons of so able a tutor, preserved a cold and guarded courtesy of demeanour. My edu cation, too, the advancement of which was Mr. Judson's paramount duty, was shamefully neglected. "What are you about," one day, said cardinal Mazarin to La Mothe Levayer, tutor to the only brother of Louis XIV., "making an able man of the king's brother? Should he become more learned than his elder brother, he would no longer be able to yield a blind obedience." And afraid that the king's brother might be better educated than the king, the anti-education cardinal ordered the tutor not to make his majesty's brother study at all. It was, I cannot help thinking, for somewhat similar reasons that Judson, who saw that my brother had neither inclination nor |