the 29th November, 1871. With a Report of the Proceedings. London, 1871. 8vo, 6. Fusion: an Elementary Lecture, delivered Nov. 28, 1872, at the request of the Incorporated Law Society. By Freeman Oliver Haynes, Esq. London, 1873. 7. Origines Juridiciales. By William Dugdale, Esq., Norroy King of Arms. Second Edition. London, 8. Report from the Select Committee on Legal Educa- tion ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 25th August, 1846. 4to. 9. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the arrangements in the Inns of Court and Inns V. The Life of Christ. By Frederic W. Farrar, D.D., F.R.S.; late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Master of Marlborough College, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. Tenth Edition. London, VI.-Reports of the Royal Commission on Friendly and Benefit VII.-1. Reports of the Judicature Commission. 2. The Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873. VIII. Discorsi del Sommo Pontefice Pio IX., pronunziati in Vaticano, ai Fedeli di Roma e dell' Orbe, dal prin- CORRIGENDA. ART. I.-The Greville Memoirs, p. 45. 'Mr. Reeve gives lists of five P. 50, line 3 from the bottom. For 'Green Room of the Garrick,' of his Executors. 2 Vols. 8vo. London, 1875 II.-1. Statement exhibiting the Moral and Material Pro- gress and Condition of India during the Year 1871-2 presented to Parliament by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, and ordered by the House of Commons to be printed. London, 1873. 2. Indian Missions. By Sir Bartle Frere, G.C.S.I., &c., late Governor of Bombay. Reprinted from 'The Church and the Age.' London, 1873. 3. Lecture on Missions, delivered in Westminster Abbey on December 3rd, 1873. By Max Müller, M.A., Pro- fessor of Comparative Philology at Oxford; with an Introductory Sermon by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., Dean of Westminster. London, 1873. 4. Report of the General Missionary Conference held at Allahabad, 1872-3. London, 1873. 5. Statistical Tables of Protestant Missions in India, Ceylon, and Burma for 1871. Prepared at the request III.-Life of William Earl of Shelburne, afterwards first Marquess of Lansdowne, with Extracts from his IV.-1. The Reports of the Commissioner of Education, 4. Public Education in the City of New York: its History, Condition, and Statistics. An Official Re- V.-1. A Letter addressed to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, on occasion of Mr. Gladstone's recent Expostulation. By John Henry Newman, D.D., of the Oratory. 2. The Vatican Decrees, in their Bearing on Civil 3. A Reply to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone's Political Expostulation.' By the Right Rev. Mon- signor Capel, D.D. London, 1875. 4. Vaticanism: an Answer to Reproofs and Replies. VI. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to his death. Continued by a Narrative, &c. &c. By Horace Waller, F.R.G.S., Rector of Twywell, Northampton. In two volumes 8vo., with Portrait and Illustrations. London, 1874. 498 VII. 1. L'Empire Romain en Orient. Par Gaston Boissier. Publié dans la 'Revue des Deux Mondes,' Juillet 2. La Statue Vocale de Memnon, considérée dans ses rapports avec l'Égypte et la Grèce. Par Jean 2. Geschichte der auswärtigen Politik und Diplomatie im Reformationszeitalter, 1485-1556. Von Karl IX.-England and Russia in the East. A Series of Papers on the Political and Geographical Condition of Central Asia. By Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson, THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.-The Greville Memoirs: a Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV. By the late Charles C. F. Greville, Esq., Clerk of the Council of those Sovereigns. Edited by Henry Reeve, Registrar of the Privy Council. In 3 volumes. London, 1874. Second Edition. WE E approach the critical examination of the late Mr. Charles Greville's Journal with a sense of more than ordinary responsibility. It has attracted an unusual amount of attention: it has been widely circulated, at home and abroad: our estimate of it differs essentially from that of the great majority of our contemporaries in the Press; and as they have been, we think, unduly prodigal of commendation, the invidious duty is forced upon us of redressing the balance by dwelling more on the demerits than the merits of the book. It has raised, moreover, a question of no slight importance to society: a question which cannot be summarily set aside by assuming that, provided people are interested or amused, it matters little or nothing what feelings are wounded, what confidence is broken, or what reputations are assailed. The very first consideration forced upon us by the perusal was, whether many of the most popular passages ought to have been published for the next fifty years: whether many ought not to have been wholly obliterated or permanently suppressed. But before laying down and applying what we take to be the sound and received doctrine on these points, we must come to a precise understanding as to the position and character of the writer, the conditions or circumstances under which he wrote, and the moral or honourable obligations imposed upon him. Only two meagre paragraphs are devoted to his biography by Mr. Reeve: "Of the Author of these Journals it may suffice to say that Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville was the eldest of the three sons of Charles Greville (who was grandson of the fifth Lord Warwick), by Lady Charlotte Cavendish Bentinck, eldest daughter of William Vol. 138.- No. 275. B Henry, Henry, third Duke of Portland, K.G., who filled many great offices of State. He was born on the 2nd of April, 1794. Much of his childhood was spent at his grandfather's house at Bulstrode. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford; but he left the University early, having been appointed private secretary to Earl Bathurst before he was twenty. The influence of the Duke of Portland obtained for him early in life the sinecure appointment of the Secretaryship of Jamaica, the duties of that office being performed by deputy, and likewise the reversion of the Clerkship of the Council. He entered in 1821 upon the duties of Clerk of the Council in Ordinary, which he discharged for nearly forty years. During the last twenty years of his life Mr. Greville occupied a suite of rooms in the house of Earl Granville in Bruton Street, and there, on the 18th of January, 1865, he expired.' He was born in a wing or side-building of Burlington House, Piccadilly, which had been lent to his father for a residence. He was admitted a student of Christ Church on the 24th December, 1810, on the nomination of Canon Dowdeswell, having entered as a commoner a few days before. He retained his studentship till December 24th, 1814,-as long as he could retain it without taking a B.A. degree; but he resided or kept only seven terms, from January 1811 to June 1812; when, being then in his nineteenth year, he became private secretary to Lord Bathurst. He also obtained a clerkship in one of the public offices; we believe, the Board of Trade. He always regretted that his father's circumstances did not allow of his remaining longer at the University. Once upon a time, pointing out to a lady the rooms he had occupied in his undergraduate days, he paused before a window from which he and two others had dropped after the college gates were closed, to reach a spot where a chaise and four was waiting for them. They dashed off to London to witness the execution of Bellingham, the assassin of Mr. Perceval. Having satisfied their curiosity, or love of excitement, they dashed back again, and were lucky enough to escape discovery. His net income from his two offices exceeded 40007.; and as, with little or no private fortune, he died worth 30,0007, he was probably a gainer on the turf. He took to it very early in life, and was wont to relate that, having lost 3000l. which he was unable to pay, he applied to his uncle, the Duke, who readily lent him the money. As soon as he was in funds, he procured three new Bank of England notes of one thousand pounds each, and presented himself to discharge his debt. 'Oh, no, Charles, keep the money by all means. It will bring you luck. I never meant it as a loan.' Greville made some show of |