Since  the  institution  of  a  British  Academy  some  un-
known but  generous  and  intelligent  person  has  in-
stituted a  lecture  in  Warton's  honour  on  subjects
connected  with  his  and  under  his  name.  Sixty  years
earlier  Thomas  Wright  and  other  good  people  started
a  "  Warton  Club,"  for  publishing  texts,  which  did
excellent  work,  but  died  soon.  On  the  whole,  how-
ever, it  may  be  doubted  whether  anything  like  sufficient
honour  has  been  paid  to  him.  He  has  been  accused  of
want  of  method  ;  but  it  may  be  questioned  very  seri-
ously whether,  in  his  time  and  for  his  purpose,  method
was  the  principal  thing.  It  may  be  all  very  well,  when
the  materies  is  really  publica,  to  dispose  it  according  to
the  views  of  a  certain  arranger,  though  even  then  there
is  the  danger  that  the  arrangement  will  be  more
thought  of  than  the  facts.  In  this  case  there  was  a
huge  neglected  body  of  facts — much  of  it  very  precious
— to  be  rummaged  out,  exposed,  made  accessible.  It
may  be  doubted  whether,  to  be  cumbered  about  too
much  serving,  as  actually  happened  in  the  case  of  Gray,
would  not  have  meant  that  the  dinner  would  never  have
been  served  at  all.
