New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26
~ THE WOOLS4CK.
zmerican Who Was Thrice
r~S Chancellor of England.
~-r-oRTAN CHANCELLoRs.

l ,sl.v disclaimS In his preface any desire
&c hook regarded as a continuation of
c.r7nbelrs Lives of the Chancellors.-
.rcs IN large part IL necessarily is, how
- ?, may differ from the previous un-
- IN scale, IN scope or in literary execu-
- sour occupants OF the wOOlsack, whose
T.h,es appear in this volume, are Lords
-. Brougham, Cottenham and Truro.
l -, n the two former chancellors. which
| -. take mp nearly five-sixths OF the vol
.,va already been covered by Lord Camp
n "a the object Of MI Atlay seems largely
been TO correct the erroneous impression
~ produced by that lively but spiteful
-.bsr and in the case Of Lord Lyndhurst,
-, &c well the often too euIogistic en-
-. ~ his official biographer. Sir Theodore
me author admits that the inclusion OF
-.,rgl1ana among the Victorian chanceIlors
~ fhe nature Of "a fraud on the title"
p-opgham surrendered the Great Seal two
,,s half before the accession OF the
or.qn He sufficiently justifies his course,
:, an the plea that Lord Brougham's
=, career Is so inextricably bound up
Il 90 fortunes Of his predecessors and imme-
r,cceesors in office. as wen as with the
:, end political history OF the early years
=. -oigu." that n have omitted him would
-,bbes these pages OF all semblance OF
~-leteness"
!. author has little IF anything. absolutely
"a sav about Rrougham. hut his presenta-
= the well known facts Of his life is made
i, creditabIe determination TO draw salts
--r portrait 81 "one who. with all his fail
vas a very great man." and he shows a
discrimination IN regard to those matters
,sich the evidence is contradictory. The
s,hv is especially noteworthy for its ex-
! zive account of the trial Of Queen Caro-
IN which Rrougham appeared for the de-
20 and Lord Lyndhurst then Sergeant Con
sar the prosecution Although this was by
-ssns the only occasion when the two giants
ri; themselves in active opposition. during
ruarter Of 4 century previous to Lord
-surst's death they lived on terms of affec-
= -te Intimacy. Every afternoon Brougham
n drive around to the house in George
~e, where his senior lay crippled with govt.
cheer him with gossip and bravaderie; and
he dark days after Lyndhurst's death. when
oKn mental powers were fast failing. he
Ii st'n rouse himself TO he driven there.
# was with pain and difficulty that the
!! less nature Of his quest could he explained
I'm" Brougham's physiognomy was almost
marked as his mental chara cteristics. 1.-The
disjonted frame with the strong. bony
s the never-to -be-forgotten nose were not
rsistent with that dignity which the SEN
rn Of force rarely fails to confer" Bagehot
RE Of him:
.ge IS a glare in some mems ewes which seems
| rg Beware, am dangerous; noli me tanPere''
z Broughan's face has this. mischievous ex-
Utility is the most obvious expression of it. II
Ege horse nobody would buy him"
| Fougham's face and form were the joy of the
taturists and 70 this day his most promi-
Il feature appears every week on the cover
/ Punch" For some forgotten cause, accord
70 Mr n Il Speilmann. Brougham had
e umbrage 10 the designer, who vowed to
7g bis face through the mire," and one of
troop OF imps and elves that dance around
border trails by a string mask with up
ned face on which is visible and distinct
proboseis which once adorned the coun-
inca Of Lord Brougham"
II American readers the present volume win
stess derive its prime interest from the
saphy Of Lord Lyndhurst the son Of John
seton Cop,ey the artist, who was the most
I9olUi PoiIili painter OF ms III1e IN Ine
1srcan colonies. In spite Of HIS American
II and parentage John Singleton Copley, jr.,
thorough Briton. which is, perhaps. not
nge when We consider that he was taken to
II London when he was only two years old
Massachusetts, was still a part of the do
-ons Of King George Having received from
University Cambridge a travelling bache-
snip" be revisited America In his twenty
F. year
aoegh he had made a very comprehensive tour
lgh the Northern States and found warm
rs and that abundant hospitalltY for which orr