Nothing, of course, must be said about the "Saurin v. Starr" case until it shall have been decided. But two small points not connected with the merits of the business may be noted. One is that Mr. Browning, who wrote that wonderful poem about "Hate in the Cloister" and crystallised the small, intense persistent spite of one monk against another, has material for a companion composition which will demand not so much his miraculous subtleness as his plastic power. For, whichever way the verdict may go, the idea of a long and pin-prick persecution has been brought out in its tiniest details; and whether it were inflicted or only imagined, that idea comes, whence it could only come, from the cloister. Secondly, the Lord Chief Justice is to be thanked for his preventing an ugly word from being introduced into our language. Perhaps nobody at the Bar could better afford than Sir John Coleridge; to be asked not to give his sanction to the use of such a word as "superioress." Baron Martin does not like new duties to be imposed upon the Judges, but they can with the slightest trouble do so much towards the repression of abominable words that it could be wished that they would more often stand by the well of English and keep it undefiled. Reading the good old law-books teaches more than law.

Source: The Illustrated London News, Vol. LIV, Feb. 13, 1869, p.155