.Memoir of James Houghton. With Extracts frees his Private and
Published Letters. By his Son, Samuel Haughton. (Ponsonby, Dublin ; Longmano, London.)—Mr. Haughton took a prominent part in almost every philanthropic and liberal movement that has been undertaken in this country—and indeed beyond this country—since the time when the end of the great war with Napoleon gave mon leisure to think of some- thing besides fleets and armies. The final measures of slave emanci- pation, the Free-trade movement, the Repeal agitation, temperance, and other causes, almost too numerous to mention, found in him a steady advocate. We should not like to commit ourselves to the assertion that he was always in the right, but that he was always sincere, always in earnest, and gave himself up to the work with a heartiness and an energy which left nothing to be desired, is quite certain. It is not necessary to agree with all his views to find this Memoir a very interesting volume. There is the vigorous person- ality of the man, and the sketches of the numberless personages of note —almost every reformer, political or social, of the century—with whom he came in contact, to attract the attention.
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