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stately nod of more than ready assent; and replied; with all his tremendous 

energy     concentrated      into   the  sentence:      〃And     the   Lord    forbid   that   I 

should do otherwise than declare that she always WAS agreeableto every 

one but ME!〃 

     Mr。 Forster step by step builds up the evidence on which he writes this 

life and   states   this   character。   In   like   manner;  he   gives the   evidence   for 

his   high   estimation   of   Landor's   works;   andit   may   be   addedfor   their 

recompense   against   some   neglect;   in   finding   so   sympathetic;   acute;   and 

devoted   a   champion。       Nothing in the   book   is   more   remarkable than   his 

examination of each of Landor's successive pieces of writing; his delicate 

discernment   of   their   beauties;   and   his   strong   desire   to   impart   his   own 

perceptions in this wise to the great audience that is yet to come。                  It rarely 

befalls an author to have such a commentator:                  to become the subject of 

so   much   artistic   skill   and   knowledge;   combined   with   such   infinite   and 

loving pains。 Alike as a piece of Biography; and as a commentary upon the 

beauties of a great writer; the book is a massive book; as the man and the 

writer    were    massive     too。   Sometimes;       when     the  balance    held   by   Mr。 

Forster     has   seemed     for  a  moment      to  turn   a  little  heavily   against    the 

infirmities of temperament of a grand old friend; we have felt something 

of a shock; but we have not once been able to gainsay the justice of the 



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scales。     This feeling; too; has only fluttered out of the detail; here or there; 

and has vanished before the whole。               We fully agree with Mr。 Forster that 

〃judgment has been passed〃as it should be〃with an equal desire to be 

only just on all the qualities of his temperament which affected necessarily 

not his own life only。         But; now that the story is told; no one will have 

difficulty in striking the balance between its good and ill; and what was 

really  imperishable   in   Landor's genius   will   not be treasured less;  or   less 

understood; for the more perfect knowledge of his character〃。 

     Mr。 Forster's   second   volume gives   a  facsimile of   Landor's   writing   at 

seventy…five。        It   may     be   interesting     to   those    who    are    curious    in 

calligraphy; to know that its resemblance to the recent handwriting of that 

great genius; M。 Victor Hugo; is singularly strong。 

     In   a   military   burial…ground   in   India;   the   name   of   Walter   Landor   is 

associated with the present writer's over the grave of a young officer。                     No 

name could stand there; more inseparably associated in the writer's mind 

with   the   dignity   of   generosity:     with   a   noble   scorn   of   all   littleness;   all 

cruelty; oppression; fraud; and false pretence。 



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