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Memoeojds Of Charles James Foxt. Jlfemor...
MEMOEOJDS OF CHARLES JAMES FOXT . Jlfemorial's and Correspondence of Charles James Fose . Edited By Lord John Russell . Tor , UVL Bentltey . JjoiiMP Jo « n BtoSBEiac is resolved' to-fee a ? man- of Tetters . Some- of Bis friends migjri ; wishi bint t &» he nothing else * - H & waa not- a successful dramatist ; but in , hi ^ Menioirs of £ Aa Affairs of Mzi ^ ope he displayed ! an- uncommon faculty fan ¦ that most difficult and most dignified branch of literary art , histonieal composition . As an editor , however , he has exhibited little more than levity and' indolence . Undertaking to produce the diaries and correspondence of thepoetf Bfoore fir a form-fif for posterity , he published' a shapeless , half-In telEgibley roosely ^ conatnucted book in : several volumes , w & ich might as well hav » been supervised * by the printer ' a foreman . TJfeaelMemorialaof Charlfes--James Foxalso , have , been incompetently ; , because carelessly , edited . They
^ are without , arrangement ,, unity ,, ot connexion . ; , the chronology , is defective ; the explanatory notices could not be more meagre ; in fact , Lord John Rnsaelrhas ill 1 performed life task , and is now painfulry alive , to t & e truth . He amasses a valuable collection- of : materials for the biography erf Fox , and is . them seized-with the fear- that , somebody else may attempt to become- the bipgraphec Twice * tkenefbre-,, in thia fourth ; and last volume of documents inherited , from the late Bbrd Holland and Mr . Allen r he promises a separatework ,, being a full , methodical , and artistic Life of Mr . Fox , setting forth , ± he great events of his times * and" discussin g at . large fiis public policy . When- or-how the labour is to be commenced ,, we know not . N " or can we guessv Thomas Jffoore ' s' ' mild' and sensible * Whig Lord * is always either a minister ofithe Growoa ^ or .- toying to .- be one ; then ? how caa he beabiocrraphar ? When will . he ; put away the one ambitioni and'justify the-other : ?
Not yet ^ if we may infer any thing from , his elaborate attitudinising , in the House of Commons , or from the shadow thrown upon the session of 1858 by sthe popular idea that Johnny will again upset the coach unless Lord Pafxnevsfion strides ' Bigli fbr * Kefbrm' . As- to the * consecutive narrative , ' then , > itis a ; vaguepromise ; : what we- hove is- a batch * of very- inconsecutive Mejnorialsyjuncluding ! a . large pxwrtion of the correspondence carried on by JFox . with the public men . of his- time . But how cornea it that ,, in . reality , we never iave the great Life of a > great statesman E WehaiV . a Prior ' a Life of Burke ^ we Ikave Tnackeray ' s Life of Chatham ; we have Hare ' s Life of Burleigh ; werBwtte Gbxe ' s Life of STr Robert Walpole ; but all these ^ th ough useful , arei mediocre . Temline on ? Pitt and Trotter- oir Foac are Both dull and yapid . Moore ? S ' . bibgrapliy ) o § Sfaeridam ia > literacy rather- than political '; - AliBon ? B cjomiuled -Life . o £ " JJJ * rlborQuchi ia . a . meret abortion ^—wocsa than
Mallet ' s ; . Lord BrQUghana ' s , Lives , are . no move than skfttcUes ^ although .-, wnat Gibbon woufd" bave termed their ' copious brevity' is infinitely to be , preferred ^ to IKhe gigajitic dinTasion of" Dt ; IPTare , of whose tliree quarto vo $ ames > it way saidt that iw built and ! spjeci'fic- gravity they exceeded all otthexr huDoam compositions * The Italian criminal ' who-liad tachoose-between thftg ^ lejis and GiuiociairdinLnught Bave been offered . Deathior Doctor Nuref < 3 Saftbrd was , not much . moue . successful t ^ han > Eitt , while ; aat for Thackeray , he was sxanply an ignoramus who had . read some important state-papei'S . MackintosK mi ' ghc h ave written a stately life of a statesman ; Macaulay xnrgltt cfbscr ; - But ft is not-for AlFson tafte more tRan a Trotter , and it may nofi . b » fbr £ ioedf iPtAn Ktoeaell to bwmorei than a writer of prefaces and intexmolctted hasK piles ' . And . v . et > what : a delightful boot ; , woulxi . be as BiogrAphy of Chaxiesi James Fox , written in a just spudt ^ althoug h , by a . Loving ; hand ; . A eecfcaruinv could not do it ; still less , ia narrow Whig ; from , a Tory gan it would be a ! libel ; , but from a * right-minded person'" may fate deEicer ua ! 35 To « right minded person ^ could compose » biogpaphy of" Fbar wffchout being essentially wroncr
An . Ju & eatamato off that aingniair statesman , whoj for a quarter of a- century * stQodla ^ the ) head o £ BngliaB ., oratora ^ amdi eclipsed ! neariy all the mem of hi & own ; and . tbvet oppoaite . pajty . He , wafihapftpadojftt "Walpole : and Gibbomhave told us how he ; was addicted to gambling ; from . Macluntoah we have a . fervid enumeration ofnis virtues . Burke declared hiim a . man made to beloved , byrt he- tt » k pointed , air by moralists as a deaperado abandoned' to inexcusable vicew- JB « # one thmg- 19 not and ! eawnot be denwd ' r he * was the typo of « pateiotra pailaiaiaafxtt y a . genuine ^ Ubesoi ; the p « bc »> off debater ^ an < enemy of nepotism and corruption . Tha « foiurtibu vdLuaae , containing the correspondence , from 1804 to , 1806 , beaidea that with ; Gilbert , WaJkefieWc- 'flinbooying the cerebrated character of J ? oraon—the Duke of Portland ,, and Mir . Trotter-,, abounds in flluetrattone of Fojt ' sgpniar , generous , highvapiBited naturm A & Lord Joftn Bussell oftaerver , hw most powerful speeches , both im jttuiilt aodl mnddle agtiy wex & m »&& m fbrt * vxv of peace—not * oringing 1 peace to be . piwoba » ftdi by dishonour , bujb pea «» ca ^ bliatt «< ii ^ Qttmagiwaiimous prfa > oipleai- "
When France attempted to destroy the Independence of Holland , in 1787 , Mr . FoX applauded the vigour with-which Mij ., Pitt resisted the design . ~ W hen Napoleon flushed M ith the victory of Austerlitz , burst all the bounds of moderation , Mr . Fox preferred the continuance of the war to dishonourable concession . Still , the favourite prediTeetfira-of bfe * ft « arfcwa & lbve of peace . Neither the gride which carried the nation forwarii'Tn the assertion of dominion over America , nor the passion which so ught to punish the . crimes o £ the French people by the invasion and desolation of ' France , led him-away from-tine ' great-aim of honourable peace . This disposition left him in a small minority imthejBtousei of Commons * at the beginning- of the American war , in a still smaller minority at . the commencement and during the course : of the French wan . The loss of all prospect of power , the . invectives of vulgar politicians , he wa 3 content . to bear ; the loss of friends , dearly loved , and of the national confidence , honourably
acquired , were aaoiificey more painful' to- his heart . But he never faltered , and' never swerved frorai his purpose . TJhe nation , inflaniedhy animosity-,, lifted up by arrogance , and . deluded by the eloquence : of men in power , assailed . , him . as an enemy to . his country , because he opposed measures injurious to her interests , and inconsistent with the-great laws- which regulate the relations between man and : man . In this deluge of folly and of fiiny ,. he sought in a return to literary pursuits- an occupation and an amusement . Other times , may see the . renewal of wars . as . unjust and as impruden t as . those which Mr . Fox opposed ; but while the many will be carried away by the preT . vailing hurricane , those who can keep their feet will recur to his example as that of at great man who > preferred the welfare-of his country ; and of mankind , to the power and popularity which were acquired : by the wanton sacrifice of human life , and the disregard o £ justice , charity ,. , and mercy . By such his memory will he revered to alt future
ge . lord John Russell ' s opinion is borne out by the letters as well as by the orations of '¦ Fox * who , with his pacific inclinations united' a large degree of confidence' in the geographical insulation of England . When Napoleon ' s project of invasion—the ? story , of which haa nowhere been so well described as ia the interesting tiiact Both Sides of t / ie Question on Both Sides-of the Channel—was the topic or universal conversation , Fox : relied upon the difficulty , of escaping the English fleet , and declared the probabilities to he ten to one against 1 Bonaparte ' s succeeding even so far as to effect a landing . " ¦ X am boldy very BoM , so long as they are on the other side of the water , or
on > the-seas *"' Napoleon ^ as Lord John Russell says 3 made thesame calculation on one side aa IToai did onthe other , and arrived at similar conclusions . In the letters now published we find a strong apology for the coalition , a defence of political combinations in general , frequent bursts of vituperation against the Addingtori cabinet , and a furious attack upon Pifc . fc as ' a cop .-teinptifele minister . ' The ' Doctor' Fox styles a liar , a fool , and a vile fellow , whom he took pleasure "in hunting down , ' and to whom he longed to give . ' his death blow . ' He was very free in-his criticisms upon the acts of . public , men , and with as much tauth aa candour spoke of Nelson ' conduct at Naples as ' atrocious . '
Memorials are not to be read in fragments , but . in detail . They are vivid illustrations of English history , public and private , and while we wait for Lord John- Russell's Biography of Charles Jame 3 Fox , we may study in tjiese four volumes the characteristics- of a nature from the rareness and nobility of which little detraction must be made even om the . score of the fact that Fox . borrowed money from Jews ta pay . his gambling debts , and was not above ( or below ) enjoying a draught from the vintage of the Khine , the Dourb , or the Blue Moselle .
Henfkey's Course Of Botany. An Elementar...
HENFKEY'S COURSE OF BOTANY . An Elementary Course qfBotwny , Structural , Physiological , and Systematic . By Arthur Henfrey , F . R . S ., L . S : Van Voorst . It is very important tijat elementary works should be written by masters , not by compilers and tyros . This reads like a . truism ,, yet the state of our elementary literature proves that , if a truism r it is constantly slighted . There is abundant Ignorance pretending to enlighten Ignorance ,, especially in Botany ; and although there are several solid excellent works , these are as units to hundreds compared with the so-called popular treatises . We have much pteasswei theretbre i in receiving the Elementary . Course just published , bjr Professor . Heriifrey .. Asnapng the scientific botanists of the day he holds a , distinguished place i and tb , e hand of a master is visible in > every
page of this clean ,, calm , pregnant exposition ,, although the power is implied rather than dis $ layed ~ . ? ' A . compendious manual of a science makes peculiar demands upon the powers of an author , " he justly remarks . " Originality of matter has little place . The exercise of j udgment , and couscientiousnesain examination of original * sources , are everywhere demanded ; and- these ^ are . of couuse moat beneficially employed' when , they rest upon an extensive basjs of practical experience . " Thorough mastery of his subject , both with , reference to what others have done , and with reference alao to original investigation , Professor Henfrey may fairly claim ; and this mastery is accompanied by the rarer faculty of brief lucid exposition , which curries the atudenfe without fiitigue and without equivoque into the very heart ot the subject * .. " __ .. „ . _ .
The first part ia devoted , to an exposition of the Morphology—ov Comparative Anatomy—of Planta ; in which , all the organs and their multitudinous modifications are described . The second part sets forth the principles ox Systematic Botany , with the Classifications ,, natural and artificial , of rlants . Tfee third part treats' of the Physiology of Plants , including their Physiological Anatomy , which i * distinguished from the Comparative Anatomy treated of in , thai firate part byr having special reference to thafitncttoas assigned to-the . oi ? gana > instead of reference to their forni only . This ,, wUicft embraces Cell-lifo- —Abso » ption—diffusion of l ^ luid—Foo d—Elaboration ot Food' ^ -Developmcnt and Secretion- —Reproduction—Luminosity—H « Motibns of Plants , & c , will' bo-studied with great interest . The last partdteroted' to Geographical and Geological' Bofcany «— -is also of fwemaang
lufceirest . _ r * . Wo harwii said tout , the . oxpoaition . b quite jreiuuwrkaJalo for its luewitvj but tlxe most , lucid language ) , will reinuin dark , to . the student uulxjaa ojdou . oy diaarauis and figures * The present volume , produced with th < a elegance whiclv difldngurBhea all' Mx \ Tan Voorst ' s publications , contains no loss tlian five hun-dred . ' and ftirty-six ilhistrnflioiwi , which i & very nearly ono to every page of lettorppesi ?* . A * » tasrt bool *; toratu < Jetita » wo know of no worlc ftu once s ©/ excuUentu . cxuwttnieiitv and ; oUono .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15081857/page/18/
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