Revised Edition, with Memoir.

It is of Lady Russell, the wife and the worthy partner of this good man, that we are about to give a brief memoir in our gallery of Excellent Women. II.

Dr. Moody Stuart tells us in his interesting and graphic memoir of the last Duchess of Gordon, from which the following incidents are taken (by kind permission of both author and publishers), that Elizabeth Brodie was born in London on the 20th of June, 1794.

His father, the great-grandfather of the subject of this memoir, was Dr. Samuel Johnson, of Stratford, one of the finest American scholars of his day, and the first President of Columbia College, which however, he left after nine years, to return and pass a serene old age at Stratford.

The younger of these Dr. Johnsonsfor they both received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Oxfordhad a daughter Elizabeth, who married Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, the son of Samuel Verplanck, and the only fruit of their marriage was the subject of this memoir.

The following brief synopsis of Blake's life, differing, in some slight particulars, from Johnson's memoir, is taken from Aubrey's Letters, ii.

In the Memoir of Goldsmith, prefixed to his Misc.

When they returned home, John and Martha Yeardley printed a short memoir of this extraordinary woman, whose name, though comparatively little known upon earth, is doubtless enshrined in the hearts of many who still survive, and shall one day shine with a lustre which the most brilliant of her sex, whose ambition it is to adorn the court, the concert or the drawing-room, will desire in vain to wear.

Many who read this Memoir will remember how the tidings of the death of Joseph John Gurney, who suddenly expired on the 5th, spread through the Society, and produced wherever it came an impression of sorrowful but heavenly solemnity.

He soon after alludes to the Memoir of Joseph John Gurney, then just published, and to the sharp stimulus which he received from its perusala stimulus which minds fixed upon improvement always receive from the vivid representation of time and talents diligently employed.

The account which Mr Hunt has given, in his memoir of Lord Byron, is evidently written under offended feeling; and, in consequence, though he does not appear to have been much indebted to the munificence of his Lordship, the tendency is to make his readers sensible that he was, if not ill used, disappointed.

A brief memoir of Mr. Carre is given in Forbes's Life of Beattie,

Autumn From Letters and Poems of Bernard Barton. 331 Charles Lamb to H.F. Cary Oct. 14 From Memoir of H.F. Cary.

With a Memoir of the Author.

I addressed a memoir to the Secretary of War on the state of Indian affairs in Oregon.

Soon after this he began to write a memoir of his life.

That he called his memoir Poetry and Truth was perhaps an error of judgment, since the title has been widely misunderstood.

The age began to take a deep and curious interest in men's lives; biography was written for the first time and autobiography; it is the great period of memoir-writing both in England and France; authors like Robert Burton came, whose delight it was to dig down into human nature in search for oddities and individualities of disposition; humanity as the great subject of enquiry for all men, came to its own.

Barry Cornwall, in his memoir of Lamb, says: "Lamb used to boast that he supplied one line to his friend in the fourth scene [Act IV., Scene i] of that tragedy, where the description of the Pagan deities occurs.

" In the little memoir of Lamb prefixed by M. Amédée Pichot to a French edition of the Tales from Shakespeare in 1842 the following translation of this sonnet is given: MON NOM DE FAMILLE Dis-moi, d'où nous viens-tu, nom pacifique et doux, Nom transmis sans reproche?...

Procter in his old age wrote a charming memoir of Lamb.

Clara Novella's Reminiscences, compiled by her daughter, the Contessa Valeria Gigliucci, with a memoir by Arthur Duke Coleridge, were published in 1910.

A more full account of the Convention {40} is, however, given in the Memoir of James the Second published by Dr. Clarke: 'It seems, upon the King's withdrawing from London, the lords about town met at Guildhall to consult what was fit to be done.

The adventures of General Dale, Mr. Claiborne tells us, were taken from his own lips by the author and two friends, and from the notes of all three a memoir was compiled, but the MSS. were lost in the Mississippi.

Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. Constituting, with the Notes, a Memoir of his Life.