The New York herald., 1874-12-13
ROYALTY In ENGLAND.
An Inside View Of
Two Reigns.
GEORGE Nv. AND WILLIAM Nv.
How England Was Governed for
Twenty Years.
GEORGE THE MAGNIFICENT.
The HanOvers as Bad as the
Stuarts.
Nell Cwynne in the Nine
teenth Century.
THE SAILOR hI n G..
How William Nv. Ruled
England.
Ignorance, SelfshneSS, Vice, Rapacity
and Crime in High Places.
GLIMpSES OF ENGLISH STATESMEN
Wellington, Canning, Brougham, Melbourne,
PalmerslOn, NacaulaY and Others.
How William Nv. Ruled
England.
Ignorance, Selfshness, Vice, Rapacily
and Crime in High Places.
GL1MpsEs OF ENGLISH STATESMEN
Wellington, Canning, Brougham, Melbourne,
PalmerslOn, MacauaY and Others.
LAST YEARS OF TALLEYRAND.

A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNs OF KING GEORGE Nv.
AND KING WILLIAM Nv. BY Charles c. F. Greville,
Esq. Clerk OF the Council to those soverelgns.
Edited by Henry Reeve, Registrar OF the Prvy
Council Three volumes. London: Longmans,
Green Co. 1874.
We have received an English edition OF the Me.
mors OF Mr.. Greville, q work which has made q
deeper impression In English literary and political
circles than any which has appeared since Macau-
lays History Of England. Mr.. Greville was q
grandson OF the third Duke OF Portland by his
mothers side and OF the Earl OF Warwick by his
fathers. THIS proud relationship brought him
closely into the first families OF England. led to
his being appointed early In lie, to the sinecure
position OF Secretary OF Jamaica, the du.
ties OF which were performed by deputy,
and likewise to the Clerkship OF the Council
An arlstocrat, man OF taste, education and some
literary requirements, he embraced his oppor-
tunities, which were unusual, TO put on record
his observations OF the relgns OF George Nv. and
william Nv. He became Clerk Of tne Council IN
1921. and remained Tor forty years. The journal
before US is continued TO the death OF william w..
which took place in 1887. covering in all period
OF sixteen years. As the remainder OF the journal
would concern Queen Victoria and many of the
men now famous in English public lie, Mr.. Reeve
years must eiapse before It win see the light. We
have had several memoirs covering the time OF
Mr. Grevllle's book-notably Lord Brougham's,
Lord Campoel's "Lives OF the Chanceors, ~
Baron Bunsens 'Stockmars Memoirs" Sir Henry
Hollands .Recoectons,n Byron's Lie. the
"Life and Dispatches Of Lord Grey,n and Others
The history OF that time is coming slowly into
Ilgst, not coored, hidden darkened by passion or
party prejudice, but truthfuily, so that We may
know the manner OF men who governed England
In the early part OF this century.
The great value OF memoirs like those OF Mr..
GrevilIe their evident sincerity and truthfulness
We have history 1t Is, not history in fan dress.
There is more reserve In what Mr.. Greville mas
written than In the famous diary OF samuel Pepys,
Secretary to the Admiralty IN Charles lI's reign,
or John Evelyn, or even Horace walpole. There is
nothing whatever about himself We know all
about Pepys-his nirtations his gossiping, his
fondness for the theatre, his domestic troubles.
Tie Is as fresh a figure to-day as when he battered
down into Westminster Hall TO see the heads OF
Cromwell, lreton and Bradshaw exposed to ig-
nomlny by the paid hirelings OF q french King.
There Is absolutely nothing OF Grevlle
In these pages. WHAT we observe partIcu-
larry is his spirit OF fairness. He does not
attempt to alter to-day opinions he expressed four
Tears ago. We follow him rom year TO year feel
ing that we are speaking with a man who gives
Us the opinions OF the day IN which he lived.
consequently we have strange dspariues OF
judgment-censures OF Wellington in one year
which become CONNIE ndations later, as party
feeling moved the writer; censures OF Peel and
praises or Peel; criticisms upon all the leading
men with whom he associated; no attempt to
sum up Historically the character or achievements
OF any, This is the great value OF q journal, and
we have little doubt that the book OF Mr.. Grevile,
nj rhar nj rfrrI of
political events-llke the Catholic emancipation
and the Reform bill, that even now lose their
interest-win occupy a permanent place in the
literature OF English politics.
GEORGE THE MAGNIFICENT.
When Mr.. Greve became Clerk OF the Council
His Gracious majesty George w was In the nifty
ninth year OF his age, and had just assembled the
throne. HIS iather. George H., OF glorious men,
ory, mad died lew months previous, in the eighty
second year OF his age, blind old man, who had
been living In retirement Tor many years,
wandering about the Windsor galleries singing
psalms and playing on the narpsIchord, with oc-
casional dts OF madness lonely, sorrowful de-
serted. george w. had been prince regent for
many years before he ascended the throne. Mr.
Grevllle began his journal in 1878, when he was in
the twenty.ourth year OF his age, and it Is mainly
the crude ideas OF young man who had not yet
obtained~a knowledge OF the world, and who
writes About dinners and horseraces. In
his first entry we learn that "the Re-
gent drives In the park every day In
tilbury, with his groom sitting by his side,
and grave men are shocked at this undignined
practice" The Queen, his mother, sophia Char
lotte, OF MecKlenburg-Strelitz, was very od and
Ill, and about to die. But the poor lady had her
own troubles, and We have note about her
1aintng when sne heard that her daughters-in-
law, the Ducnesses OF Cambridge and Cumber-
iand-one German Mecklenburg- -Strelitz Princess
IKE herself, and the other q Hesse -Cassel Prn-
cess-had met and embraced. For she was very
virtuous Old lady, this queen OF George ILL.,, ana
would have no dealings with her daughter -in-law
OF Cumberland because she nad been divorced from
her husband, the Prince salm- aim -BromreIs ..She
was in such rage that spasm was brought on.
and she was very near dying,r as she did die i've
months later.
TIE DUKE OF YORK.
Mr.. Greville seems to have been proteoe OF the
Duke OF YORK, the Kings eldest brother, who had
married the Princess Royal ofPrussa, grand niece
OF frederick the Great and aunt OF the present
Kaiser. This great Duke was Earl OF Ulster ana
Commander-In- Chief Of His Majesty's forces and
one OF the nrst princes In the realm, and mainly
sDent his time playing whist was "eouallv well