Excerpt from Richard Holt Hutton of 'the Spectator' A Monograph In having left an expressed desire that no formal memoir of themselves should be written, Mr Hutton and Dean Church entail a real loss on many earnest and thoughtful people, who, it may well be, abhor the fashionable multiplication of trivial incidents about vain and flippant writers that have merely amused the public for a few years, but who would, on the other hand, richly esteem a record of the larger outlines of a noble life, and lay to heart the wisdom and the healing strength that might be gathered from letters which passed between friend and friend. 'next to a man's own work, ' wrote Dr Marcus Dods recently in reviewing the life of a promi nent Englishman, a good biography is his best memorial.' The loss is ours, and no adequate compensation is found in the added admiration with which we find men who have held a com manding position in the world, refraining from seeking popular applause in a day when the interviewer is king - the rnore impudent, the more thought of in many quarters - and the flattering paragraph, inspired often' by the flattered writer himself, is ubiquitous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.