atters
relating to trade and foreign plantations (Sir James Stephen and Sir
Edward Ryan were the last two appointed under that form and title); made
K.C.B. April 27, 1848, and finally retired on pension May 3, 1848,
having been on sick leave since October 1847.]

[Footnote 54: Kindly sent to me by Mr. Montague Butler, of Pembroke
College, Cambridge.]

[Footnote 55: See an article by W. D. Christie in _Macmillan's Magazine_
for November 1864.]

[Footnote 56: Maine was born August 22, 1822, and therefore six years
and a half older than Fitzjames.]

[Footnote 57: He was proposed by Maine on October 30, and elected
November 13, 1847.]

[Footnote 58: _The Life of Julian Fane_, by his intimate friend Lord
Lytton, was published in 1871. It includes some account of the
'apostles.']

[Footnote 59: It refers, I suppose, to the son's failure to get into the
first class in the college examination at Christmas 1848.]

[Footnote 60: Pearson died in 1894, after a career in England and
Australia much troubled by ill health. His book upon _National
Character_, published in 1803, first made his remarkable abilities
generally known, though he had written very ably upon history.]

[Footnote 61: Born November 2, 1826, d. February 9, 1883. See the memoir
by C. H. Pearson prefixed to the collection of Smith's _Mathematical
Papers_ (1894).]

[Footnote 62: I guess Dumont's 'Principles.']

CHAPTER III

_THE BAR AND JOURNALISM_

I. INTRODUCTORY

I have traced at some length the early development of my brother's mind
and character. Henceforward I shall have to describe rather the
manifestation than the modification of his qualities. He had reached
full maturity, although he had still much to learn in the art of turning
his abilities to account. His 'indolence' and 'self-indulgence,' if they
had ever existed, had disappeared completely and for ever. His life
henceforward was of the most strenuous. He had become a strong
man--strong with that peculiar combination of mental and moral force
which reveals itself in masculine common sense. His friends not
unfrequently compared him to Dr. Johnson, and, much as the two men
differed in some ways, there was a real ground for the comparison.
Fitzjames might be called pre-eminently a 'moralist,' in the
old-fashioned sense in which that term is applied to Johnson. He was
profoundly interested, that is, in the great problems of life and
conduct. His views were, in this sense at least,