Memoir of Sir George Grey. By M. Creighton, D.D. With
Pre- face by Sir E. Grey, Bart. (Longmans and Co. 634—Dr. Creigh- ton wrote this memoir shortly after Sir George Grey's death in September, 1882. It was then printed for private circulation, and it is now for the first time published. Dr. Creighton, who was then Vicar of Embleton, felt, it is clear, that he was bound to use the severest repression in speaking of the deceased. There was as close a friendship bet wean them as could well be between men so differing in age—Dr. Creighton was the younger by forty- four years—and the clergyman doubtless felt himself bound to keep personal feeling as much as possible in abeyance. Hence the reader will find less colour and force in the memoir than is usually to be seen in Dr. Creightcn's work. But it is a plain, truthful, and eminently effective record of an honourable and useful life. One thing is clear enough, how great the danger then was to the Empire from the statesmen of the Whig period. Sir George Grey was of a different way of thinking, but. Sir William Molesworth and Lord Glenelg were bent on spelling England with the smallest "e" that could be found. It was all the more dangerous because their motive was eminently patriotic. We are on our guard against Irish and Welsh irreconcilables, but this danger is always with us, and always hard to escape from.
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