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It may seem presumptuous that so young a man as myself should propose to write his life and memoirs, for, as a rule, one waits until he has accomplished something in the world, or until he has reached old age, before he ventures to tell of the times in which he has lived, and of his part in them.
Sometimes, in the evening he read, choosing a book at random among the motley collection in a corner case a dusty, soiled assortment of books, ephemeral novels of the moment, ponderous volumes which are in everybody's library but which nobody reads, sets of histories, memoirs, essays, beautifully bound and once cared for, but now dirty from neglect jetsam from a wrecked home.
On a stand near the fire lay two or three yellow volumes some recent French essays, a volume of memoirs, a tale of Bourget's, and so forth. These were flanked by Sir Henry Maine's Popular Government, and a recent brilliant study of English policy in Egypt both of them with the name "Richard J. Montresor" on the title-page. The last number of Dr.
The French ambassador, therefore, was obliged to depart from these extensive views, and to concert with James the means of providing for the safety of the United Provinces: nor was this object altogether without its difficulties. * Sully's Memoirs. La Boderie, voL i. p. 120. * Winwood, vol. ii. p 55.
This was soon found out at the Court of France, and thence arose the generally received opinion that she was deficient in sense. It will be seen in the course of these "Memoirs" whether that opinion was well or ill founded. The public prints, however, teemed with assertions of the superior talents of Maria Theresa's children.
In these "Memoirs" of Vidocq there is a man named Christian, or Caron, with a reputation for removing charms cast on animals, and he takes Vidocq to his Gypsy friends at Malines: "Having traversed the city, we stopped in the Faubourg de Louvain, before a wretched looking house with blackened walls, furrowed with wide crevices, and many bundles of straw as substitutes for window glasses.
I have myself been present at a public dinner at Lambeth Palace within the last fifty years or thereabouts, and I have been at one or more such dinners at Wentworth. Since receiving this explanation I have read the following in the second part of the Greville Memoirs, i. 99: 'June 1, 1838. I dined yesterday at Lambeth, at the Archbishop's public dinner, the handsomest entertainment I ever saw.
The narrative was written in a very ornate and grandiloquent style, but the hero of the memoirs was so evidently a man of remarkable character, enterprise and adventure, that I saw in the few scattered bones of the story which he unfolded the skeleton of an ample historical romance.
"Elliott's Poems." London, 1833. 2. "Poems of Robert Nicoll." Third Edition. Edinburgh, 1843. 3. "Life and Poems of John Bethune." London, 1841. 4. "Memoirs of Alexander Bethune." By W. M'Combie. Aberdeen, 1845. 5. "Rhymes and Recollections of a Handloom Weaver." By William Thorn, of Inverury. Second Edition, London, 1845. 6. "The Purgatory of Suicides." By Thomas Cooper. London, 1845. 7.
Indeed he has recorded in his memoirs, that the actions which he resolved upon without deliberation, and on the spur of the moment, turned out more successfully than those which appeared to have been best considered.
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