aling vengeance every where around him.

His authority in the council is not less than his valour in the field.
His strength of judgement and extent of knowledge, joined to the
singular sanctity of his character, give him great weight in all the
publick consultations; and his influence is of considerable service to
his brother the General.--Boswell's "Account of Corsica," page 222.

REVIEWS.

DR. JOHNSON:

HIS FRIENDS AND HIS CRITICS.

BY GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L.[159]

[Footnote 159: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1878]

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"Seldom has a pleasanter commentary been written on a literary
masterpiece.... What its author has aimed at has been the reproduction
of the atmosphere in which Johnson lived; and he has succeeded so well
that we shall look with interest for other chapters of Johnsonian
literature which he promises.... Throughout the author of this pleasant
volume has spared no pains to enable the present generation to realise
more completely the sphere, so near and so far from this latter half of
the nineteenth century, in which Johnson talked and taught."--SATURDAY
REVIEW, _July 13th, 1878_.

"Dr. Hill has written out of his ripe scholarship several interesting
disquisitions, all tending to a better understanding of the man and his
times, and all written with the ease and the absence of pretence which
come of long familiarity with a subject and complete mastery of its
facts."--THE EXAMINER, _July 27th, 1878_.

"Dr. Hill has published a very interesting little book.... All the
chapters are interesting in a high degree."--WESTMINSTER REVIEW,
_October, 1878_.

"We think Dr. Hill has succeeded in bringing before his readers, vividly
and exactly, both the College of Johnson's youth and the University of
his later years.... We think he clearly establishes that Boswell,
Murphy, and Hawkins were all alike wrong in supposing that the
celebrated passage in Chesterfield's letters describing the 'respectable
Hottentot' refers to Johnson.... He devotes a chapter each to Langton
and Beauclerk, in which he gathers together the various scattered
references to them by Boswell and other biographers of Johnson and
combines them into admirable sketches of each of these friends of
Johnson."--WESTMINSTER REVIEW, _January, 1879_.

"With great industry Dr. Hill has illustrated the condition of Oxford as
a University in the last century.... His first chapter ... embodies, in
a lively and entertaini