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A Memory of Thomas Moore. By S. C. Hall. (Virtue.)—Mr. Hall republishes, with corrections and additions from his "Book of Memories," these recollections of Moore. Their chief interest is in the very earnest way in which the writer vindicates the poet's memory from the charge of servility. Mr. Hall gives one curious instance of the recklessness with which the charge of servility has been made. Moore wrote in his diary, " Called at Lansdowne House, and was let in." "How base I" cries the critic ; but does not observe that a few pages lower down there is entered, "Lord Lansdowne called, and was let in." The profits of this publication are to go to the cost of a memorial window, which it is proposed to put in at Bromhill Church, in Wiltshire, where the poet, hia wife, and his children are buried.
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