14 APRIL 1888, Page 24

how a biographer of Garrick finds opportunity to describe Bismarck

as "incarnated intolerance ;" but find it or make it he does. In fact, Garrick is made a peg to hang many things upon that are but indirectly connected with him. As a Life, this is but a poor performance. It has had to be compressed within narrow limits ; but whatever a biographer of Garrick may omit, there is one thing which it is de rigueur to quote, and that is Dr. Johnson's famous eulogy that his 'death "eclipsed the gaiety of nations."