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Many years ago Macaulay, in a mild protest against having his articles altered by Macvey Napier, suggested in effect that the bloom might be left on poor things destined to be read only for a month or so. The duration of an article now may be measured rather by hours than by weeks.
Shandy's consolatory sentences are quoted from Bacon's Essays. The illustration, therefore, is singularly unfortunate. Pray alter it thus; "in which Cicero vainly sought consolation for the loss of Tullia." To be sure, it is idle to correct such trifles at a distance of fifteen thousand miles. Yours ever From Lord Jeffrey to Macvey Napier, Esq. May 2, 1837.
It is rather singular, indeed, that so vigorous a manifesto of Utilitarian dogma should have been accepted by Macvey Napier a sound Whig for a publication which professed scientific impartiality. It has, however, in the highest degree, the merits of clearness and condensation desirable in a popular exposition.
I picked up in a print-shop the other day some superb views of the suburbs of Chowringhee, and the villas of the Garden Reach. Selina professes that she is ready to die with envy of the fine houses and verandahs. Ever yours To Macvey Napier, Esq. London: December 5, 1833 Dear Napier, You are probably not unprepared for what I am about to tell you.
To Macvey Napier, Esq. London: August 19, 1830. My dear Sir, The new number appeared this morning in the shop windows. The article on Niebuhr contains much that is very sensible; but it is not such an article as so noble a subject required.
My sister, my brother-in-law, and their little child, are as well as possible. As to me, I think that, as Buonaparte said of himself after the Russian campaign, J'ai le diable au corps. Ever yours affectionately To Macvey Napier, Esq. Calcutta: November 26, 1836. Dear Napier, At last I send you an article of interminable length about Lord Bacon.
Francis Jeffrey to Macvey Napier, Esq. 24, Moray Place Saturday evening, December My dear Napier, I am very much obliged to you for the permission to read this. It is to me, I will confess, a solemn and melancholy announcement. I ought not, perhaps, so to consider it. But I cannot help it. I was not prepared for six years, and I must still hope that it will not be so much.
"Who is Eothen?" wrote Macvey Napier, editor of the "Edinburgh," to Hayward: "I know he is a lawyer and highly respectable; but I should like to know a little more of his personal history: he is very clever but very peculiar."
Ever yours very affectionately To Macvey Napier, Esq. 50 Great Ormond Street, London: January 25, 1830. My dear Sir, I send off by the mail of to-day an article on Southey, too long, I fear, to meet your wishes, but as short as I could make it.
If, in the attempt to free his hearers from such elements, he ran the risk of reducing morality to a lower level and made it appear as unamiable as sound morality can appear, it must be admitted that in this respect too his theories reflected his personal character. Macvey Napier's Correspondence, p. 424.
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