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don merchant. His wife died at Avignon, in the south of France, in 

 1858. She was buried there, and her husband raised a monument to 

 her memory, and has since resided there much of his time. He also 

 died at Avignon, and rests in the tomb beside his beloved wife. In 1859 

 appeared his "Essay on Liberty," and his "Discussions and Disserta- 

 tions" in 1SG0. In 1865, when in his sixtieth year, Mr. Mill was 

 elected to Parliament from the district of Westminster, in London, 

 and he was again a candidate, in 1868, in the constituency of West- 

 minster, but was beaten by a rich Tory news-dealer. His work entitled 

 "Considerations on Representative Government " appeared in 1861, 

 and that on "L'tilitarianism" in 1863. The work upon which his rep- 

 utation as a metaphysician will chiefly rest is "The Examination of 

 Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy," published in 1865. In 1869 ap- 

 peared his little book on the " Subjection of Woman," and his last 

 production, a review of Grote's unfinished " Aristotle," appeared in 

 the Fortnightly Review for January of the present year. 



In personal appearance Mr. Mill was slight in form, of medium 

 height, somewhat stooping, with a bald head and a conspicuous wen 

 on the left side of the forehead. His small gray eyes were penetrat- 

 ing and restless, and the nose aquiline and prominent. He had thin, 

 compressed lips, with a very decided but agreeable expression of 

 mouth. His face was clean-shaven and bloodless, and he had a per- 

 petual nervous movement a sort of twitching of the lips and eyes. 

 His manners were unassuming and agreeable, but somewhat diffident 

 and constrained. There was a nervous uncertainty in his movements 

 which at first susrsested lameness. He had a thin, weak voice, and 

 spoke at times with a partial stammer. Although no orator, he was a 

 clear, self-possessed, and forcible public speaker, who relied upon argu- 

 ment rather than rhetoric to impress his hearers. In temperament he 

 was far from being the cold, intellectual machine which the readers of 

 his " Logic " might suppose him to be. His nature was sympathetic, 

 and capable of strong attachments, and he could hate his enemies as 

 well as love his friends. 



The following sketches and estimates of Mr. Mill's career and char- 

 acter are from the London Examiner, which issued a memorial num- 

 ber. Some of the minor contributions have been omitted, and others 

 slightly condensed ; but those herewith published form a very valu- 

 able summary of Mr. Mill's traits and labors 



HIS EDUCATION AND MARRIAGE. 



BY H. R. FOX BOURNE. 



James Mill was living in a house at Pentonville when his son 

 was born ; and, partly because of the peculiar abilities that the boy 

 displayed from the first, partly because he could not afford to pro- 

 cure for him elsewhere such teaching as he was able himself to give 

 him, he took his education entirely into his own hands. With what 



