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criticisms that he has ever received. Still, when Carlyle, in his " Life 

 of Sterling," refers to that article as the first marked recognition he 

 had received in the press, he was unfairly oblivious to what Mill's 

 article had previously done for him. 



In this number the political article has to advert to the death of 

 King William, and the events that followed. The Radicalism is as 

 strong as ever ; but the signature (E) is not Mill's, and I do not know 

 the author. 



The next number is October, 1837. The opening chapter is the 

 political one, and is by Mill. Its text is the opening of the new Par- 

 liament of 1837. It is, if possible, more energetic and outspoken than 

 ever. It addresses first the Ministers, and demands of them the bal- 

 lot, as a special measure, and a number of other reforms, the Church 

 included. It addresses the Radicals in Parliament in the usual strain. 

 It hits the Tories very hard for their disingenuous dealing on the new 

 Poor Law at the elections, and demonstrates that not they, but the 

 Radicals, were the real upholders of the rights of property. The in- 

 citements to action are redoubled, as the power of the Liberals has di- 

 minished. I do not know of any compositions that better deserve to 

 be compared with the Philippics of Demosthenes than Mill's political 

 onslaughts in those years. 



This number contained also the article on Armand Carrel. The 

 best part of it is, perhaps, the history of French politics from the res- 

 toration of the Bourbons, on which he was thoroughly informed. The 

 personality of Carrel is sketched chiefly from Carrel's biographers, to 

 which he adds the impressions made by Carrel on himself. The dis- 

 tinguishing aim of Carrel's political life is remarkable for its common 

 sense and intelligibility to mitigate the mutual hostility of parties as 

 a preparation for a constitutional regime. In the summing up of Car- 

 rel's personality Mill displays himself : " Like all persons of fine facul- 

 ties, he carried the faculties loith him into the smallest things / and 

 did not disdain to excel, being qualified to do so, in those things which 

 are great only to little men." This doctrine, I conceive, was held by 

 Mill to an erroneous excess ; the counter-doctrine of the limitation of 

 the human faculties he never fully allowed for. He believed in large 

 minds without any qualification, and saw very little incompatibility 

 between the most opposite gifts. 



In January, 1838, appeared the first "Canada and Lord Durham" 

 article. In the "Autobiography " he celebrates the influence exerted by 

 this and his subsequent article on the return of Lord Durham, and be- 

 lieves that they were a turning-point not merely in the settlement of 

 Canada, but in the future of all our British colonies. Besides writing 

 these articles, Mill exercised great personal influence on Lord Dur- 

 ham's Canadian measures, chiefly through his secretary, Charles Buller, 

 who was always very open to Mill's suggestions. The present article 

 apologizes for not reviewing the home political situation at large, be- 



