The September number of the North American Review con- tains
an interesting paper of reminiscences of Mr. Bright, by his nephew, Mr. M'Laren. In regard to his well-known ad- miration for the Queen, a remarkable saying of Mr. Bright's is given. He described her as " the most absolutely truthful and straightforward person he had ever met." On the question of Mr. Bradlaugh's right to take his seat, Mr. Bright said : "It is not his atheism these fellows are afraid of ; it is the practical Christianity of his politics." The famous comparison of the party formed by Horsman. and Lowe to oppose Reform in 1866, to "a Scotch terrier so covered with hair that you could not tell which was the head and which was the tail of it," occurred to Mr. Bright as he was walking down to the House. On reflection, however, he decided not to use it, and it was only because the phrase happened to come back to his mind during his speech that he uttered this, the most successful of all his Parliamentary good things. " There is nothing to tell in my life. My speeches are my life," said Mr. Bright ; but we can hardly agree with this. A sympathetic biographer might make a picture of the great orator that would materially assist in keeping his memory alive.
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