rectitude of his judgment, his exact and extensive knowledge, his personal high-mindedness, and his entire impartiality, rendered him absolutely equitable, and made him not less incapable -in the cause even that he had the most at heart, that of religious and political liberty of fanaticism than he was of indifference or lukewarmness. I have heard it. aid

that in the earlier part of his life, Mr. Hallam was somewhat severe and imperious, but he had endured great domestic afflictions. He had lost his wife and several children, among them his eldest son Arthur, a young man of rare distinction, to whose memory Tennyson, his friend, has consecrated one of the most beautiful works of moral poetry, 'In Memoriam.' Instead of embittering and rendering him gloomy, misfortune and advancing age had upon Mr. Hallam the effect of rendering him gentle and affable. Every trace of asperity vanished from his manner; he preserved all his alertness of mind, all his literary and social tastes, and seemed to enjoy existence as one may who finds it sweet yet, and desires to render it sweet to those who surround him, although having known acute griefs, he can never, in the depths of his soul, love it as before. . A rare man, and modest as he was rare, lacking only a little more brilliancy in his mental endowment, and a somewhat more ardent desire for success, to have had over the public as much power as he obtained esteem and affection from those who knew him well.

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I was not equally intimate with Lord Macaulay, and even after seeing him frequently, my acquaintance was still rather with the author than with the man. Before we met I had admired his brilliant skill in gathering facts, in grouping them, in giving life to them, and transforming the narrative into a drama, while, in the character of a spectator of this drama, he followed each actor with his observations and his criticisms; he excelled in throwing a flood of light and color over the past, and bringing it constantly face to face with the ideas and manners of the pres