Sir George Trevelyan unveiled a portrait of the late Lord
Frederick Cavendish in the Mechanics' Hall, Keighley, on Wednesday, and delivered a very graceful speech on the occa- sion, marked by all his literary ability and insight. "I was attracted to him from the first," said Sir George Trevelyan, " by those gifts and qualities which all who knew him remember so well,—that union of delicacy and sympathy with perfect manliness of conduct and bearing ; that refined negligence, perhaps his most individual characteristic, which gave him a grace and an attraction peculiarly his own; that unalterable chivalry and loyalty which came from his ingrained habit of thinking always what was due to others and never of himself." "Refined negligence" is an exceedingly happy description of Lord Frederick's manner, which had all the negligence of genuine self-forgetfulness in it, and none of the negligence of deficient taste or judgment. Nor—if we may trust a singularly unanimous judgment of the most intimate friends—did Sir - George exaggerate, strong as his words may seem, when, in his concluding sentence, he called Lord Frederick the best, the truest, the noblest, the purest of God's creatures."
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