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LONDON, July 23, 1870. SIR JAMES CLARK deserves mention in these columns. His career was quite a singular one for a medical man, although it could perhaps be desired more of his profession led the wandering life he did before nestling in some snug, quiet home. James Clark, the eldest son of Mr. David Clark, of Findlater, in Banff County, was born on his father's farm the 14th of December, 1788. Educated at the Fordyce Grammar School, and at King's College, Aberdeen, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and took service in the navy as assistant surgeon before receiving his diploma. The peace of 1815 allowed him to resume his interrupted professional studies, and in 1817 the University of Edinburgh gave him his diploma. His roving humor led him abroad, and often flitting from place to place (not an unobservant visitor, far otherwise) he at last made Rome his home for eight or nine years. As his practice lay entirely among English families, he employed the summer months (when Rome is deserted by foreigners) visiting the hospitals and schools of the continent, acquainting himself with the several systems pursued in the treatment of disease, and inspecting the more important medicinal springs and their influence upon their frequenters. His place of residence forced him to pay especial attention to the diseases of northern countries, phthisis and other ailments of the lungs. Among his patients at Rome there happened to be Prince Leopold, of Saxe Coburg, afterwards husband of the Princess Charlotte, and King of the Belgians. Prince and physician again met at Carlsbad, and Prince Leopold invited him to become his physician. This appointment at once secured him a most lucrative and desirable practice. In 1828 he published "The Sanative Influence of Climate;" followed in 1835 by a "Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption and Scrofulous Diseases;" subsequently he contributed an important paper on "Change of Air," to the "Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine," and during all his life was a frequent contributor to the medical press. In 1832 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. After Dr. Maton's death, Prince Leopold obtained for him the place of physician to Princess Victoria. He in time be. came something more than the medical attendant of her Majesty; a warm personal friendship arose, which death alone was able to impair. When failing health warned him to relinquish his extensive practice, the Queen gave him Bagshot Park, in the immediate vicinity of Windsor, where he continued to reside until his death. Her Majesty knighted him a baronet in 1837. I should record here likewise the departure from life of Eliza Sarah Grattan, who died in Richmond, near London, a few days since, at the great age of 83. I am sure she is still remembered in Boston, where her husband, Thomas Colley Grattan, the author, was long resident as her Majesty's Vice Consul. readily permitting me to examine those books in your possession that were any way related to the subjects then occupying my attention: to you, therefore, is to be attributed the rise and the existence of that small portion of knowledge relating to the sciences which I possess, and accordingly to you are due my acknowledgments. Unused to the arts of flattery, I can only express my obligations, and in a plain, but sincere way, permit me, therefore, sir, to return thanks in this manner for the many favors I have received at your hands, and by your means, and believe me your grateful and obedient servant, M. FARADAY." This letter merits for other reasons a place here: "Sir, last evening I happened to see a copy of the Times,' of a day or two back, in which there was a review of the Malmesbury Correspondence.' I was very sorry to notice a mistake mentioned in it, about the date of two letters from Lord Fitzharris, at St. Veits, to his father. As I had the honor of copying a great many of these old letters, and arranging the whole according to dates after the Earl of Malmesbury had put notes to them, the fault was entirely mine. They ought to have been dated the 4th and 11th of September, 1800, but whether I copied them as 1806, or by mistake inserted them among the letters for that year, I am unable to say. There are not above nine or ten letters for the first eight years of the present century, and it is very possible that in placing them, I took the 0 for a 6, without noticing that it was a year after our great naval hero met his death at Trafalgar. However it might have happened, the mistake was mine, and the Earl of Malmesbury must not be charged with it. I am, etc., JOHN S. WILLIAMS.” I find this letter going the rounds of the papers here, but I am not without some fear it may first have seen print on the other side of the Atlantic. It seems some persons in America recently wrote to Mr. Spurgeon to request him to cross the ocean to lecture. He answered: "Gentlemen, I am much obliged by your very courteous letter, but you are under a mistake. I am not a lecturer. I now and then give a lecture for some good object, but I do not do it well, and, moreover, have no ambition in that line. I am very glad to preach, but not if there is any charge at the door. Moreover, I have no kind of idea of visiting the States." The "Times" announces that after the 1st of October next, it will receive subscribers who may desire to get their paper through the post. I believe there are not now a score of subscribers to the "Times," and these few are the descendants of the very earliest patrons of the paper. During the last half century or more, it has refused to receive subscriptions. A copy of Macklin's splendid edition of the Bible, distributed and handsomely bound in 63 large folio volumes, and illustrated with about 11,000 engravings and drawings of every school and style, belonging to, and, I believe, formed by the late Mr. John G. Bell, of Manchester, was recently sold here by auction. It fetched $825 in gold. Here are two notes which deserve a place in these Mr. Tennyson and his publishers, Messrs. Stracolumns: "Sir, perhaps some of your readers may han & Co., have raised legal proceedings at Edinfeel interested in a very early note written by burgh, to recover damages from Mr. Robert ForresFaraday, when he was nineteen, in the sixth year ter, of Glasgow, for selling foreign reprints of Mr. of his apprenticeship as a bookbinder. It was sent Tennyson's poems. The reprints in question are to his master, Mr. G. Riebau, with the notes of Messrs. Fields, Osgood & Co.'s edition of these some lectures bound by himself. I am, etc., poems. It need scarcely be said the honor or deliH. BENCE JONES." cacy of this Boston firm are unquestioned by all "Sir, when first I evinced a predilection for the parties concerned. No American firm stands sciences, but more particularly for that one de- higher above all suspicion; they are known throughnominated electricity, you kindly interested your-out the United Kingdom, to be thorough gentlemen self in the progress I made in the knowledge of facts and incapable of any unworthy action. They had relating to the different theories in existence, no transactions with Mr. Forrester, and do not even AUG. 15, 1870. now know how he procured their reprints. Messrs. | death itself in this dry inventory of objects investStrahan lay their damages at $2500 gold. They ed with so much interest, in this detail of a manstate they have the exclusive right to publish Mr. sion as if it had been the abode of some obscure Tennyson's poems for five years from 1st of January, opulent man, who had shrunk by death into no1869. thingness: Messrs. Norton, Trist, Watney, & Co. have received instructions to offer for sale at the Mart, City, on Friday, August 5th, at 2 o'clock precisely, the well-known choice residential property, Gad's Hill Place (well described very recently as "Doubly historic-first as the scene of one of Shakspeare's plays, 'Henry the Fourth,' * and secondly, as the abode of the greatest English humorist who has lived since Shakspeare's time"), delightfully situate, only one and a half mile from the Higham Station, two and a half from Rochester, on the South-Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Railways, in a fine healthy part of the county of Kent, and within about an hour and a half of the Metropolis. The Residence, upon which a very large sum of money has been expended within the last few years, by the late illustrious owner, is well placed upon high ground on the turnpike road to Rochester, from which it is approached by a carriage drive through a lawn. The accommodation consists of numerous bedchambers, of good dimensions, dressing-rooms, closets, principal and secondary staircases, spacious landings and entrance-hall, with rich parqueterie floors, a suite of reception rooms, decorated in perfect taste, comprising drawing-room, about 38 by 15, dining-room 28 by 16, both opening to a spacious and elegant conservatory, heated by hot water pipes, and paved with Minton's tiles, library with bay-window and small billiard-room, all the principal rooms having plate-glass windows; bathroom, water-closets, very complete, domestic offices, servants' hall, first-rate cellars, and every accommodation for a gentleman's establishment. The gas is laid on to all the offices in the basement. The pleasure grounds, with a meadow of nearly eight acres, connected with the garden by steps, surround the house, and are laid out with consummate taste in lawns, parterres of choice flowers, conifers, flowering shrubs, and well-kept yew and laurel hedges, croquet ground, terrace and gravelled walks, from which fine views are obtained of the celebrated Cobham Woods, and over the park-like A few nights since a meeting was held at the Westminster Jews' Free School, to organize a society of Hebrew Literature. It seems to have fair prospects of success. Heretofore the accounts of the University of Oxford have only been placed on the Registrar's table for inspection by members of convocation; but the public were not allowed to examine them. Recently the curators of the University chest have published an account of the receipts and payments made on account of the general fund. The receipts were £9264 18s. 10d. the balance of cash in hand over from last year; £8817 10s. 9d. from rents of estates; £2499 16s. 4d. dividends on stocks and benefactions; £5994 from dues; £1638 10s. from matriculation fees; £6278 from degree fees; £3476 16s. from examination fees; £889 0s. 9d. from miscellaneous receipts, and £1050 from the sale of property-total £39,908 128. Ed. These are the items of expenditure, £12,150 Os. 5d. were added to capital by investing £4086 5s. 3d. in consols and £8063 15s. 2d. in the purchase of the Old Angel, Kemp-hall, and improvements on Wellington Square, and the Fullwell estate; £8383 5s. 5d. were divided among professors and examiners; £3870 1s. 4d. were divided among the officials, connected with the management and government of the University; £3615 went to the Bodleian Library; £1697 17s. 6d. went to the University Museum; £232 went to the Botanic Garden; £130 went to the Ashmolean Museum; and £2544 17s. 10d. went to the Police; the total expenditures are £39,590 6s. 11d. It was stated during the recent debate on public education, the total revenues of Oxford exceed £300,000 ($1,500,000 gold) annually. The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers have awarded a Watt medal and a Telford premium in books (to consist of the Second Series of the "Minutes of Proceedings," vol. xxi. to xxx. inclusive) to Robert Briggs, of Philadelphia, for his paper "On the Conditions and the Limits which Govern the Proportions of Rotary Fans." The number of Fellows in Trinity College, Dublin, is 83; all were in residence and engaged in university or collegiate edu-meadows, double vinery nearly 50 feet long, heated cation, except two, who were absent for part of the by hot water. most productive kitchen garden, with year, in the South of France, on account of ill an abundance of the choicest fruit-trees in full health. The average income of the Fellows in bearing. At a convenient distance is a large car1869 was £843; rather more than one-fourth of it riage yard, with a well of pure water, for the perwas derived from the college estates, and the re-fect supply of the premises, detached capital fourmainder from tutors' fees and other payments stall stable and loose box, with patent iron fittings, made by students. The portion of the income of large loft over, double coach-house, gardener's cotthe 19 Fellows who were members of the tutorial tage, &c., also a thriving orchard and fruit gardens, body, derived from tutors' fees in 1869, was £478. having a good frontage to the high road; and imThe number of undergraduate students on the mediately opposite the house, and connected with books, on the 19th of May, 1870, was 1020. The the grounds by a tunnel underneath the road, is a number of Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, shrubbery, nearly an acre in extent, ornamented in 1869, was 60; 35 of them resident, 17 of these with two magnificent cedars of Lebanon, and some being engaged in university or collegiate educa- fine trees and shrubs, with shaded walks leading tion. The average income of the non-resident Fellows was £286; of the Fellows resident and engaged in university or collegiate education, £746; of the Fellows resident and not so engaged, £406. The number of undergraduate students on the books of Trinity College, Cambridge, on the 31st of May, 1870, was 519. Mr. Charles Dickens' name comes frequently before the public, in consequence of the continual sales of objects associated with him. I dare say you will read with interest the auctioneer's (though not even a George Robins) description of the great Magician's home. There is something touching as * Visitors to Mr. Dickens's home-how many are there in America! Mr. Longfellow, Mr. J. R. Lowell, Mr. Childs, Mr. Fields, Mr. J. R. Osgood-will remember a scroll from Mr. Owen Jones's hand, which hung in the hall, and which blazoned : This House, GAD'S HILL PLACE, stands on the summit of Shakespeare's Gad's Hill, ever me morable for its association, in his noble fancy, with Sir John o'clock, early at Gad's Hill. There are pilgrims going to Falstaff: "But, my lade, my lads, to-morrow morning by four Canterbury, with rich offerings, and traders riding to London with fat purses. I have visors for all; you have horses for yourselves." AUG. 15, 1870. to a swiss chalet, presented to the late owner a few" American Notes," $525 gold (Lord Darnley); years ago by an admiring friend, and amidst this C. Stanfield, The Land's End; the artist presented repose and solitude, yet in the full view of the lofty this drawing to Mr. Dickens as a memento of a spire of Higham New Church, the noble river Cornish excursion made by him, Mr. Dickens, and Thames and Shipping, the highly cultivated and Mr. Maclise, $475 (Agnew); C. Stanfield, The picturesque surrounding scenery, the interesting Logan Rock, with portraits of Mr. Dickens and Mr. but melancholy circumstance should be noticed that Stanfield in the foreground, $395 (J. Forster); Sir in this chalet Charles Dickens spent his last after- David Wilkie, A Mother and Child, a sketch for the noon, and it may be said that his splendid literary" Cotter's Saturday Night," which the artist prelife was therein brought to a close. This portion sented the author in 1840, $650 (Colnaghi); G. of the estate, which also includes six acres of arable Cattermole, Sintram and his Companions, which Mr. land, let to a yearly tenant, comprises altogether Dickens bought from the artist, $375 (Agnew); about 18 acres, and will form the first lot. Lot 2 F. W. Topham, Barnaby Rudge and his Mother, will comprise an inclosure of fine arable land, con- presented by the artist, $550 (Cox); S. Prout taining upwards of eight acres, situate close to Lot Beauvais' Cathedral, which Mr. Dickens bought No. 1, near the high turnpike road from Gravesend from the water-color exhibition, $775 (Agnew); to Rochester, on the road leading to Higham Rail- W. Hunt, Roses in a Blue and White Jug, with a way Station. This field commands very fine views, Bird's Nest, which Mr. Dickens bought from the has a considerable frontage to the road, and being water-color exhibition, $1600 (Agnew); F. W. within convenient distance of the station is ad- Topham, Little Nell and her Grand father in the Tent mirably adapted for building purposes. May be making Bouquets for the Race Course, $1375 viewed by cards only, and particularly with litho- (Agnew): it was presented by the artist to the graphic views (2s. 6d. each) had in due course of author; G. Cattermole, Little Nell's Home, taken Messrs. Farrer, Ouory & Co., 66 Lincoln's Inn-fields; from "The Old Curiosity Shop," $800 (Evans); at the Mart; and with cards, of the Auctioneers, G. Cattermole, Little Nell's Grave, the companion 62 Old Bond Street, E. C." drawing, $900 (J. Forster). Pictures: James There are several other advertisements relating Hamilton, What are the Wild Waves Saying? preto Mr. Dickens, which seem of sufficient interest to sented in the United States by the artist to the warrant me in copying them: "Messrs. Christie, author, who greatly admired it, $225 (J. J. Payne); Manson & Woods respectfully give notice that they Frank Stone, Tilda Price, from "Nicholas Nickleby;" will sell by auction the eighty-seven original Mr. Dickens and Mr. Stone were intimate friends, sketches by Seymour, Brown & Leach, made to illus- and he ordered this picture from the artist, $200 trate "Pickwick" and "Nicholas Nickleby," with (Attenborough); Zamaçois, Garde Champêtre, which MS. notes for correction by Charles Dickens. Also Mr. Dickens bought in New York during his last the original MS. by Charles Dickens of "Mr. Robert visit to the United States, giving $770 for it, $1200 Bolton, the Gentleman connected with the Press," (Agnew); W. Gale, Mr. F.'s Aunt, from "Little full reports of the first and second meetings of the Dorrit," which Mr. Dickens bought during its exhiMudfog Association, written for "Bentley's Miscel-bition in the Royal Academy, $300 (Agnew); Mrs. lany," and upwards of sixty autograph letters of M'Ian, Little Nell Reading the Inscription on the Charles Dickens, addressed to Richard Bentley, Tombstone, from "The Old Curiosity Shop," preEsq. Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge announce sented by the artist, $270 (Waters); W. T. Weba sale by auction of "the original prospectus of ster, Dotheboys Hall, the brimstone and treacle 'Bentley's Miscellany,' the principal portion of scene, painted by Mr. Dickens's desire, $1050 'Oliver Twist,' and numerous letters entirely in (Vokins); David Roberts, The Simoon, which he the handwriting of the late Charles Dickens." presented to Mr. Dickens the year it was painted, $1275 (Agnew); C. R. Leslie, Pickwick and Mrs. Bardell, in Grisaille, painted by Mr. Dickens's desire, $655 (Attenborough); Augustus Egg, portrait of Mr. Dickens as Sir Charles Coldstream in "Used-up," $800 (Agnew); P. H. Calderon, The Letter, a Room in Kever Castle, and the companion picture, Hide and Seek, $1255 (Agnew); D. Maclise, A Girl at a Water-fall, which Mr. Dickens bought from the artist in 1843, $3050 (J. Forster); W. P. Frith, Dolly Varden, painted by Mr. Dickens's desire, $5000 (Agnew); W. P. Frith, Kate Nickleby, at Madame Mantalini's, painted by Mr. Dickens's desire, $1000 (Attenborough); C. Stanfield, The Eddystone Light-house, presented by the artist, $4950 (Attenborough); C. Stanfield, An Arctic Scene, illustrating "The Frozen Deep"Wilkie Collins's play, which Mr. Dickens, Mr. Mark Lemon, and others played for the benefit of Douglas Jerrold's family-presented by the artist, $750 (Attenborough); C. Stanfield, A Man-of-War, with a Boat, illustrative of the Light-house, presented by the artist, $875 (Vokins); David Maclise, portrait of Mr. Dickens, whole length, painted in 1839, presented by Mr. Dickens on the completion of “ Nicholas Nickleby," $3300 (Rev. Sir Edward Jodrell). Decorative objects: A Parisian clock, by Cresson, These were the prices fetched; in parentheses are in chased or-molu case, inlaid with plaques of the purchasers' names. Water-color drawings: Sevres porcelain, on gilt stand, $150 (Colnaghi); Clarkson Stanfield, The Britannia, the steamship a pair of candlesticks and a pair of small tazze, in which Mr. Dickens first went to the United all matched, $117.50 (C. F. Crich, of Leamington); tates; it is engraved in the popular edition of a pair of candelabra for four lights each, with porce The sale of the modern paintings, water-color drawings, and objects of art which adorned Gad's Hill Place, took place as I announced to you, and attracted a mob of distinguished and wealthy people, who eagerly fought, guinea pitched against guinea, until the scales turned toward the master of most of them. Everybody wanted some relic of the departed genius. I cannot help feeling regret that in at least so short a time all that was personal of Charles Dickens should be effaced. It seems almost sacrilege to give over to some stranger, recommended only by his wealth, Gad's Hill Place, while it is still warm with its master, while its walls still vibrate to his jocund laugh, and the blades of grass are still down-trodden by his active step as he pursued those out-of-door gambols he loved so well. Why this haste to strip his home of the objects with which he had adorned its walls or placed in its recesses? The gaunt wolf of poverty does not pursue his family, and one had thought they had been only too glad to linger in a place where their founder still lived and still indulged as it were his tastes. How Scott still lives at Abbottsford though the wild flowers have bloomed and faded many a time on the grave in Melrose Abbey! AUG. 15, 1870. lain figures, glass shades and stands, bought at Genoa, $102.50; a pair of ruby and white cut glass wine-coolers, mounted with lions' mask handles, and feet of or-molu, $85 (Wardell); a Dresden double saltcellar, with a figure of a child, and another with a girl seated between two baskets, $170 (Holland); a beautiful small chandelier, with cut glass drops, for eight lights, $190 (C. Hotten); a Chinese gong on stand, with beater, $155 (Nicks); Mr. Dickens's favorite raven, stuffed, in a glass case, the "Grip" of "Barnaby Rudge," $600 (Mr. Nottage, of Cheapside; when this relic was brought forward it was greeted with applause; its possession was long and eagerly contested). Bronzes: Esmeralda, after Pradier, bought by Mr. Dickens in Paris, $105 (L. J. Poole); an eagle on a rock, by Barye, $127.50 (Radley). Marbles: A bust of Mr. Dickens, by Angus Fletcher, $255 (Greenbury, of Whitby); bust of Walter Savage Landor, after Gibson, given by Mr. Landor, $110 (Hotten). Pekin Porcelain: A cup and cover, enamelled with Chinese figures, and mounted with or-molu; and another with flowers and insects, $75 (Holland); a pair of vases, richly enamelled with figures on carved wood stand, $110 (Holland); a set of eight miniature basins, with Chinese figures and characters, and a pair of small bottles, all matching, $82.50. Old Nankin Porcelain: A pair of beautiful blue and white gourd-shaped bottles, with figures, $117.50 (Wareham); another similar pair, with utensils, etc., $110 (Wareham); a pair of blue and white delf bottles, from the Marryat collection, and a finted vase and cover, $107.25 (Lehman). The Pickwick ladles, silver ladles, the handle formed of a silver gilt figure of the following characters, from the "Pickwick Papers," beautifully modelled by Woodington; they were presented to Mr. Dickens by Messrs. Chapman & Nott, his publishers, upon the publication of the last number of "The Pickwick Papers": Pickwick, $345 (A. Halliday); Jingle, $150 (Agnew); Winkle, $115 (Agnew); Sam Weller, $320 (Agnew); Old Weller, $255 (Agnew); the Fat Boy, $170 (Agnew). The paintings fetched $40,000, the whole collection of objects put up fetched $47,050. FRANCIS BLANDFORD. KAY & BROTHER. One of the most conspicuous and creditable instances of enterprise and energy in the book publishing business of this city has lately been exhibited by Messrs. Kay & Bro., the well-known law-book publishers. The business of this house has always been safe and solid; it has steadily and healthily expanded from the beginning; and an increase of facilities to accommodate a constantly angmenting business was imperatively needed. The premises hitherto occupied by them have been enlarged fully one hundred per cent., and the new store is perhaps the largest law book-store in the United States. Ample in its dimensions, complete in its appointments, and containing one of the richest collections of portraits of eminent American and English members of the legal profession that can be found in the United States, it is now a place of resort of peculiar attractiveness to the lawyer. The firm of Kay & Bro. is one of the oldest, and has always been one of the most reputable, in the country. It was founded in 1819 by Mr. James Kay, who commenced business as a printer. Able, energetic, and sagacious, he was prosperous from the beginning. In a short time he associated with him his brother, Mr. John I. Kay. Publishing was soon made the principal business of the establishThe keen eye of Mr. James Kay was quick to discern the value of the power-press, and the ment. new firm promptly introduced it into their establishment. To augment their facilities a bindery was added to the concern. In a short time the firm disposed of their movable type, and confined themselves principally to printing from stereotype plates. They acquired celebrity at once for the character of their work. For many years, in addition to the issue of their own valuable publications, they were extensively engaged in the manufacture of books for many of the leading houses in all parts of the country. In 1852 Mr. James Kay purchased the interest of his brother, and continued the business himself under the old firm name. In 1854 the bindery and the printing office were disposed of; and the school and miscellaneous department, which for several years had been separately conducted under the name of Kay & Troutman, and subsequently under the name of Troutman & Hayes, was purchased by Hayes & Zell. The law branch of the business was retained. Mr. James Kay associated with him John H. Troutman, who had been partner in the miscellaneous business, Angus Cameron, who had been with the concern from boyhood, and his son, J. Alfred Kay. No change was made in the old firm title. Mr. James Kay died in 1856, and the business was continued by the surviving partners. Mr. Kay was a man of rare ability and scholarly attainments. Prolonged ill health had narrowed the circle of his acquaintances; but by the select few who gathered around him he was greatly esteemed for his many excellent qualities. In all his business relations, he was far-seeing, prompt, and honorable. In 1857 Messrs. Kay & Bro. removed to the spacious premises No. 19 South Sixth St.-the entire building, Nos. 17 and 19, having been erected with special reference to the prospective requirements of the business. In 1864, Mr. Troutman (since deceased) disposed of his interest to his partners, J. Alfred Kay and Angus Cameron, who now constitute the firm. The The business of the house still steadily increasing, additional space and augmented facilities were requisite. An enlargement of the store was made by throwing into one the two rooms, Nos. 17 and 19, thus making the store, as we have said, the largest law-book establishment in America. building is of brick, five stories high, and of chaste, ornate style. The ample shelves of the store literally groan with the legal literature of this country and Europe. 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