2 Faraday, Correspondence of Lt.-Col. J. L. Philips. 



patriotism. The two towns in which they lived are closely 

 linked together, not only by the shortness of the space 

 which separates them geographically, but also by that 

 strongest of ties, mutual interest. It is to be questioned 

 indeed, whether anywhere else on the surface of the globe 

 can be found an example like that of the two great Lan- 

 cashire municipalities; they were practically born together, 

 they have grown and developed together, and at the 

 present day they practically still observe the same 

 relative positions. 



Living as they did just at the critical point in the 

 history of Manchester and Liverpool, and being what they 

 were, it may be supposed that Philips and Taylor exercised 

 a great influence upon the local destinies, and we may 

 justly claim that much of what is best in Manchester and 

 Liverpool life at the present day is due in some degree to 

 the influence of their friendship. It is obvious to the 

 reader of these letters that we are dealing with two very 

 fine characters, of a type best calculated to appeal to 

 English people. They were both of them eminently 

 steadfast in their mutual affection, but in no wise 

 demonstrative. They were both blessed with an almost 

 excessive sense of humour, coupled with refined and culti- 

 vated tastes. They were both "manly" men. Taylor, artist, 

 poet and book-lover as he was, was a man with a good deal 

 of quiet, determined courage, while one might even go so 

 far as to call Philips " fire-eater " in this respect, at any 

 rate when he is presented to us in certain phases. To 

 conclude this comparison. Philips was more actively en- 

 gaged in business than Taylor, who was a confirmed 

 dilettante in art matters and let his enthusiasm in this 

 direction run to even greater lengths than did Philips. 

 Both must have been from youth upwards extremely 

 loveable men, Taylor the milder mannered, with a constant 



