12. THE CENTENARY OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW' (II). 117 vols. London: Murray, The Quarterly Review. Tome XVIII Century Men of Letters: Biographical ssays by the Rev. Whitwell Elwin, with a Memoir. dited by his son, Warwick Elwin. Two vols. London: Aurray, 1902. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. By John Morley. Three vols. London: Macmillan, 1903. Ganings of Past Years (1843-1879). By the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. Seven vols. London: Murray, 1879. Essays by the late Marquess of Salisbury. Two vols. London: Murray, 1905. Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. Sixty-six vols. London: Smith, Elder, 1885-1901. HEN, in July 1853, ill-health compelled Lockhart to tire from the control of the Review which he had nducted with such skill and success for twenty-seven ears, the Rev. Whitwell Elwin took his place. The hoice was made with Lockhart's full consent, for Elwin ad been a contributor to the Review since 1843, and his bilities were fully recognised by his chief. It was at st hoped that a temporary intermission of work would mable Lockhart to recover his health; but this was not to be; and on his death in November 1854, Elwin sucded, somewhat unwillingly, to the full responsibilities the post. At this time he was thirty-eight years old. He came of an old Norfolk family, long settled at Booton and Thurning in that county; and among his direct ancestors e counted John Rolfe, who introduced tobacco-planting nto Virginia, and married the celebrated Pocahontas. Whitwell Elwin's pronounced nose' and 'rich brown eyes' are said to have closely resembled those features of the Indian princess; but tobacco he never touched till some years after he became editor of the Quarterly.' It never too late to mend; and his biographer tells us that he found his pipe a great solace for tired nerves. As a boy he lived a healthy outdoor life, and was ad dicted to fishing. But books were already a joy to him; and he showed an enquiring turn of mind. His mother (after whose family-name he had been christened) said he was 'chiefly remarkable for asking endless questions He was educated at North Walsham grammar-schoo hard by his home, where he gained a reputation as tough fighter, and a great reader of the English classic These he much preferred to Latin and Greek; and had read Boswell several times before he grew up. La and science had also some interest for him; but literatu was his first and his last love. As an undergraduate Caius College, Cambridge, he continued the pursuit; a it was here that he gained that familiarity with eighteen century writers which determined his literary predile tions through life. Taste in literature' (he afterwar wrote) is acquired before twenty'; and his preferenc were certainly formed in early youth. He eventual took a pass degree, and was ordained in 1839. After serving a curacy near Bristol, he became, 1 1849, rector of Booton, a family living twelve miles from Norwich. Here he lived for the rest of his life. H began by building, out of his own and his wife's capita a new rectory house. He was his own architect; and is characteristic of him that the rectory never, in his lif time, got itself entirely completed. John Forster, wh visited him in 1854, noted in his diary, the unfinishe house; the windows unprotected by blinds; his utte unconsciousness of it.' When the century was runni out, the rooms were still unpainted and unpapered. Abo 1867 he began to renovate his church, a mean, ill-furnishe building in bad repair. Repairing soon grew into r building; and the rebuilding of one part necessitated tl, rebuilding of another. It ended in his constructing entirely new and splendid church, from chancel to towe This is no mere biographical detail in Elwin's life; h work in Booton church is illustrative of that remarkab revival of ecclesiastical activity which permeated Englar during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Int mately connected with that revival was the change whic gradually became apparent in Elwin's religious view in the services in his church, and even in his dress an habits. Like Newman, he began as an Evangelical; an |