CURRENT LITERATURE.
James Lonsdalc : a Memoir. By Russell Duckworth, B.A. (Lou gmans.) —Mr. Lonsclale was one of the few who have no belief in the "gospel of getting on." A brilliant scholar—he• won a Balhol scholarship when he was but a few weeks over seventeen, and the Newcastle at Eton—and the son of a Bishop, he never occupied any position commensurate with his great abilities. His delight was to give help where he saw it was needed. To do this he accepted posts which almost provoked his friends by their incongruity with his standing. His highest elevation was the Professorship of Classics at King's College, London. But the opportunities which he passed by were many and great. Ho held two livings at various times, and in the latter years of his life was fond of taking locum-tenencics. Wherever he went he left behind him the memory of a singularly kind and generous nature, and, learned as ho was, he had a great aptitude for making himself understood by the unlearned; yet we find him saying, "How anybody can be very happy who is a parish priest, I cannot see."
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