[To TH1 EDITOR OP TIII "SPIOTATOH."1 SIE,—It is no doubt
quite true—as suggested by your reviewer in his notice of Mr. Atlay's "Victorian Chancellors" in the Spectator of April 21st—that Lord Brougham is very
little remembered by the present generation. But he will always live while there are readers of Peacock's novels. And it is to be hoped this means something like literary im- mortality. Who can forget the Rev. Dr. Folliott's reply to
Mr. Firedamp's observation that he (Dr. Folliott) seemed-" to make very light of science " P— "Yes, Sir, such science as the learned friend [Lord Brougham] deals in. Everything for everybody, science for all, schools for all, rhetoric for all, law for all, physic for all, words for all, And sense for none. I say, Sir, law for lawyers, and cookery for cook.; and I wish the learned friend for all his life, a cook that will pass her time in studying his works : then every dinner he sits down to at home, he will sit on the stool of repentance."
Chaps. 18 and 19 of " Gryll Grange" may be also referred to, with its sarcasm as to the " Pantopragmatio Society, under
the presidency of Lord Facing-both-ways." In the same con- nection (chap. 19) occurs the often-quoted deliverance of the
Rev. Dr. Opimian, which seems not inappropriate just now :— " If all the nonsense which, in the last quarter of a century, has been talked on all other subjects were thrown into one scale and all that has been talked on the subject of education were thrown into the other, I think the latter would pre- ponderate." " Gryll Grange," that "last and mellowest fruit from Peacock's tree," has been well said to contain "the accumulated irony of a lifetime." Would that the tree were
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