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s0ME NEW HOOKs.
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A Great Iasiish Editcr- girst Nstice.
y We are Indebted to tho Swimmers for the
two volumes presenting the first detailed
and adequate Life" OF John Thdddsas Dc
\ idns. Editor of the "Times.' by his nephew.
gAnTnUR IRwIN DAsKNT. Tho materials for
Y EDelsne's aLife," apart from his own letters
( and diaries, seem to DO fairly abundant. In
Sthe Greyille Memoirs there are over ffty
, direct references to him and many moro in
direct illusions to tho policy and infiusnce
Z of the Timss during his editorship. The
Life OF Henry Reeve. that Of Robert Lowe,
vjscount Sherbrooke; that Of Lord Hough-
ton; thu Memoirs Of De Blowits; Mr..
uasgs Brodrick's Memoirs and impress
sionss; tine privately printed memoir OF
Bernal Osborne. and Kinglake's "lnvasion
( az the Crimeae have all been Of ssrvice 70
(. the bioErapher In his attempt to produce /
X faithful portrait Of his uncle. We should
add chat In editing the accumulated corre-
'Ispondenre OF forty years, much Of 1t Of
most delicate and confidential nature, MS.
= Dasent has endeavored to keep the middle
\ course between undue retioence and taste
lea isdiscretion We should not omit to
4 mention that the two volumes are divided
into three parts, the fifst covering the period
from Sir Robert Peel's last Ministry and the
repeal OF the Corn Laws to the Aberdeen
a Coalition Government (1840-52), the second
4 part dealing with the years that elapsed
y between the Crimean War and the death OF
4 Paimerston (1sss-85), while the third part is
\ devoted to tho Gladstone Disraeli era
tises-77),
The patronymic OF Delane and its more
ancient forms Of Delany. Delaney, Delany
4 and Dulany have long been well known In
/ the western half Of Queens county. Ireland
\ The whole tract around Castletown In still
popularly called aDelaney's country
When the history Of provincial Ireland
energes from the semi -barbarism In which
Sia long lay obscured we find the stock OF
Delaney establishing itself In the counties
Iiof Kilkenny and Rosoommon and sending
forth branches as far as Waterford In the
sonth and Galway in the west. Delaney,
probably native OF Lismore or Dungarvan.
10 found holding an Office OF trust in the
reign OF James L., and before the cloee OF
the reign OF Charles ii. one at least OF the
family had gone over to seek his fortunes
In England. The final letter " seems to
& have beendisoarded when the family passed
( from Ireland TO England. One Peter De-
lane appears as one OF the Queens gentle
srlsen In waiting in list Of the royal house.
hold as it was constituted In 1887; and ten
years later Charles Delane was appointed
me OF the commissioners for levying the
gpoil tax in the city and county Of Dublin.
When we reach the eighteenth century we
are on the flrmer ground OF genealogical
continuity. A branch Of the family. which
seems early to have adopted the spelling
and accommodation OF the name as we now
know 1t, was then established at Kilenagh.
i In the county of Roscommon, where II inter-
married with the family Of Oliver Goldsmith.
From this branch came Dennis Delane. a
singularly handsome man. who after being
4 educated at Trinity College. Dublin. took to
4 the stage and was held by his admirers 10
4 be but little inferior to Garrick. Gavin
q Deiane, man Of refined tastes and an
I accomplished musician. was born In the
reign Of George H., about 1875, and Is known
4 to have lived for time In Dublin. BY his
second wife. Elizabeth Davenport, he had
, two children, a son and daughter.
n The son, William Frederick Augustus
A Delane. was born in 1794, and when still
very young married at st. Georges. Hano-
yer Square. Mise Mary Anne White. niece
81 Col. Babington, distinguished cavalry
officer who served in the Peninsular War.
Gavin Delane, who through the influence
apparently OF the Villiers family OF Dro-
mana, County Waterford had obtained the
post of sergeant-at-arms to King George
\ sTI. In ITS, left at his death In 1900 q con-
ksitierable fortune to his two children. Of
which the sons share. by the carelessness
Y of trustees, was invested in property with
Sa bad title and ultimately. aftor expensive
n and protraoted litigation. was entirely lost.
+ This untoward circumstance and the cares
fSrf an Increasing family rendered 1t neces-
Sary for William DelaDe to adopt some pro-
B 5fsssicn, and he was called to the bar at
*fjrsyss Inn in 1929. His second son, John
Ihaddous Delane, who rose to be one OF the
most remarkable and influential English
inea OF the nineteenth century was born
& ID South Motion, street. Grosvenor Square,
on October II, 1917 and was reared in that
corner of Berkshire which borders on Sur
rey. The boy Johns earliest education was
Of the woods and heath; his chief delight
WAS 10 bo in tho saddle. As lad he used
with his father to attend the Ascot races.
and retained keen interest In them
throughout his lifo
After beginning his education Mt one or
& two private schools John Delane was trans
ferred in 1888 to the then recently founded
Kings College. London. There he re-
|6fnnined for about two years. after which. In
1893, no matrlcuated at Magdalen Hall.
fSixford. We are told that though gener-
aliy regular in his attendance at chapel and
1t lectures there still were days when a
X fayorite meet of the hounds proved too
R tompting for him to resist. Second only
% to his love OF horses was Delane's fondness
FOR the tennis court. He seems to have
neon fond Of the river and good runner
snd walker. but there Is no mention OF his
haying attained to great proficiency at
'lcricket. The cost Of keeping his hunters
land his hacks is said to have been met by
+ his pen, for his father was not able to make
x him large allowance. None of his early
I, ,Iitsraryi efforts has come down TO us, but
y the biographer deems it possible that De-
{ 1hne when an undergraduate wrote articles
n Tor the grea paper with which before long
~, ~, oloaaIu anxl