CHARACTER REMINISCENCES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 1 June 1885, Page 3

CHARACTER REMINISCENCES.

The following sketches of the late Earl Derby and of Lord Grey, are to be found in the recently published '' Autpfypgraphy of Sir Henry Taylor-Of the former it says:—":lt was oustomary - to, call him 1 1 chivalrous.' I think he was not chivalI rous, He :\vas~a' vpry able, and capable man; he had force, energy, and vivacity; and .he was an effective always .clear and;strong, sometimes commonplace, but not 6cldom brilliant. ■ •He,'was not !a man: of genius could-it be said that he hada 'great intellect. "He'had 'tie gifts of-'a party politician, such as /eminent party; were- in the' 'generations immediately preceding ' his own/ rather than:-in Jhis hisjife, so as r li|erature. is\.concerned, raainly.uponj the scbolarship and academi l cal accoiripllahments with whicl/ he began it, and playing the., game ,of •,politics jvith more of party -thati of puWioVspirit, and with not! much,perhaps,of personal friendhriess.'V And of Grey, lie aays: "He wasjtbe tiaost; laborious, able, 1 public-spiri-ted, ' antj minded;;o|,,the '-'eleven Secretaries of State under whom he had .theflv'sejrvedjv'and ;he•;further pnys !this jiistlyrddserved tribute,to his lordship '[I/ord Grey ,fbr manyyears of.his after ,life'performed the part .of'a. '6i ear-s ighte d and; sagacious observer and critic of- the politicfvljprocoedings•; of others,- but- with far less' of in them than was to be deeired for the good of the- country. He is a Uatrbf/strong' .tiodaly.iarid.tenaciously;maintained, : arid he has fallen upon -times' whan, co-operation and co mi)ropiise : -for the; pur^seß/ibf!co- ; operation liave become' indeßpensabie elo- i mepts of political power in its most active .and isj ;in' pijfice. An i □ depend o'nt; f bystander rn wi th ! /a ; politicalj position /andreputation may, /no doubt, services-of; irapqrtance'/to the cojiritr^jsand-thßee have irig; bn| tq' those . who ihavo .the measuro 'of 6rd jGj-rey *s ticaf and y6. gifts and-faculties'the; iossithQ country."has sufferedjby his'too scrupulous inflexibility ; is/matter of great,regret.'^ (i