and's case is as rare as it is happy. But that is one reason
for recording the history of it. Sir Henry's life cannot be very closely
imitated, but it may be closely studied. We have found the study of it,
as recorded in the book just published, one of the most delightful
pieces of recreation which we have enjoyed for many days.... Among his
patients were pachas, princes, and premiers. Prince Albert, Napoleon
III., Talleyrand, Pozzo di Borgo, Gulzot, Palmella, Bulow, and Drouyn de
Lhuys, Jefferson Davis, Lord Sidmouth, Lord Stowell, Lord Melbourne,
Lord Palmerston, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Lansdowne. Lord Lyndhurst, to say
nothing of men of other note, were among his patients."

_From the London Spectator._

"We constantly find ourselves recalling the Poet Laureate's modernized
Ulysses, the great wanderer, insatiate of new experiences, as we read
the story of the octogenarian traveller and his many friends in many
lands:

'I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart,
Much have I seen and known. Cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least and honored of them all.'

You see in this book all this and more than this--knowledge of the
world, and insatiable thirst for more knowledge of it, great clearness
of aim and exact appreciation of the mind's own wants, precise knowledge
of the self-sacrifices needed to gratify those wants and a readiness for
those sacrifices, a distinct adoption of an economy of life, and steady
adherence to it from beginning to end--all of them characteristics which
are but rare in this somewhat confused and hand-to-mouth world, and
which certainly when combined make a unique study of character, however
indirectly it may be presented to us and however little attention may be
drawn to the interior of the picture."

_From The New York Times._

"His memory was--is, we may say, for he is still alive and in possession
of all his faculties--stored with recollections of the most eminent men
and women of this century. He has known the intimate friends of Dr.
Johnson. He travelled in Albania when Ali Pacha ruled, and has since
then explored almost every part of the world, except the far East. He
has made eight visits to this country, and at the age of eighty-two (in
1869) he was here again--the guest of Mr. Evarts, and, while in this
city, of Mr. Thurlow Weed. Since then he has made a voyage to Jamaica
and the West India Isl