The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-22 00:00:00

out an hour's interruption or abatement up t,) the p-riod
of Lord King's lamented death.

"From Eton he was sent to Trinity College, Cam-
bridge,
and shortly after succeeded to his title on the
death of his father in 1793. After spending the usual
time at the University, he made a tour through such
parts of the Continent as were then open to British tra-
vellers, including Switzerland, Germany, and the north
of Italy, and returned home as soon as he was of age.
On taking his seat in the House of Lords, he joined the
small band of Mr. Fox's Friends, of which the chief
leaders in that House were Lord Holland and the Duke
of Bedford ; the former of whom, in a letter written to
Lady King shortly after her husband's death, thus re-
fers to the friendship which subsisted between them :
In addition to the pleasure of his intercourse, and of
an early, long, and uninterrupted friendship, I have to
look back on repeated obligations, as well as uniform
kindness, experienced from him. And if concurrence
of sentiment in politics confirms and strengthens affec-
tion, I believe I can say, that from the period of our en-
tering public life (and, it I mislake not, we attended for
the first time on the same day), we never differed twice
in our votes for more than thirty-six years.' By Lord
Holland he was probably introduced to the acqaintance
of Mr. Fox, who, justly appreciating his character and
talents, showed him many marks of friendly regard; and
as the neighbourhood of their respective homes at Ock-
ham and St. Anne's Hill afforded frequent opportuni-
ties of intercourse, some of the most delightful hours of
Lord King's life were spent in the society of Mr. Fox."

LIFE : a Romance. Newby, London, 1844.

The chief defects of this tale,-Which is 'in the form
of an autobiography, are, first, a want of bold, vigor-
ous, dramatic incident, and secondly, a uniform senti-
mental tone that at times approaches to the maudlin,
and is certainly not in keeping with nature, though
it may possibly suit the tastes of circulating li-
brary readers. One or two of the scenes in the
first volume are graphically enough pourtrayed ;
we allude more especially to those which occur
in the course of the episode, entitled "My
Uncle's Tale," where Squire Thornley relates to his
nephew, the hero of the narrative before us, some par-
ticulars connected with his earlier days, when ho was
driven from his family possessions by the intrigues of
a cunning unprincipled housekeeper and her conge-
nial confederate, a knavish attorney, by name Smart.
The whole of this incident, with the attempt at
murder made by the woman on the rightful
heir at law, in conjunction with some of the servants
whom she has won over to her interests, contrasts
strikingly with the tame, and, we may add, lackadai-
sical, tone that pervades the rest of the work,- and is
no where more conspicuous than in the conception
and development of the character of Perkins—a deli-
cate, interesting, studious youth, who wears his shirt
collar turned down, a la Byron, and his hair hanging
over his shoulders after the most approved fashion of
romantic sentimentalists, and dies in the flower of his
youth of consumption, in the two hundred and
eleventh page of the third volume, while his lady-love,
Ellen Fanshawe, dies of a broken heart upon his
grave, in the two hundred and thirteenth page of
ditto. The language of the tale is generally chaste,
and sometimes even eloquent, but, as we have already
observed, it is much too effeminate in its tone.