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He is seeking a house close to us " Ah! he is not close enough yet, it seems "and if he succeeds we shall have an additional motive to induce you to come among us in the summer." The reader would puzzle a long time and not guess the biographer's comment upon the above letter. It is this: "These sound like words of s considerate and judicious friend." That is what he thinks.
As far as his personal character is concerned, there is nothing to be lamented in these omissions. There is nothing very winning, or very commanding, either in his biographer's picture of him, or in his own letters.
He would, however, caution readers against accepting the biographer's interpretation of the author's views as in any sense authoritative; advising them, rather, to await the publication of the remainder of Proudhon's writings, that they may form an opinion for themselves. Translator.
Few books have been published of late years which combine more distinct elements of interest than the "Apologia" of Dr. Newman. As an autobiography, in the highest sense of that word, as the portraiture, that is, and record of what the man was, irrespective of those common accidents of humanity which too often load the biographer's pages, it is eminently dramatic.
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