Chapters from Famly Chests, By Edward WaHord, M.A. 2 vols.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—It must not be supposed that we have in these volumes any of the results of the search which the Commissioners have been making into family records. Pretty nearly everything in these two volumes may, we take it, be found in print already. Mr. Walford, however, has done well in collecting them. Some, perhaps, might have been spared without much lose. The love- story of Lord Eldon, for instance, is, to say the least, quite as well told by Lord Campbell. Bat others will be new, at least to many readers. The "Incident in the House of Radcliffe" (a curiously worded title, by-the-way), tells us pleasantly how a younger son of the Earl of Sussex married Isabel, daughter of Edmund Harvey, citizen of London. The account of "An Eccentric Baronet," Sir Henry Bate, at one time editor of the Morning Post, and founder of the Morning Herald, is remarkable. Mr. Douglas, in his "Duelling- Days," has some odd things to tell of him. One capital volume might have been made out of the two; but the two, in these days of book. making, are quite passable.
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