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GOOD, JOHN MASON, M.D. 



GOODALL. 



being emotioned by the pope, Ooozalo gave up the estate* with which 

 that king had rewarded hi* previous *ervice*. Subsequently however 

 he stained hit character by an act of which be repented in lit* old 

 age; he lent the hereditary prince, the Duke of Calabria, a* a 

 pruoner to Spain, notwith*Undiiig he had volemnly bound hinuelf 

 to reipect hi* liberty, under the plea of Ferdinand disapproval of 

 that pledge, which wanted hi* previous royal consent The partition 

 of Maplea between the Spaniih and French toon brought them into 

 collision, and afforded Qonxalo a aecond and; more brilliant oppor- 

 tunity of defeating and finally driving away the French, and of 

 reconciling the naUvea to the Spanish away. Ferdinand at last grew 

 jealou* of a *ubject whoae brilliant success threw the kingly dignity 

 into the abade. Even in the decline of hi* authority and power, after 

 Itabella'a death, and when Qonzalo, in a letter dated Naples, 2nd 

 of July 1606, reassured him of hii unconditional and must firm 

 adherence, and when the pope and the Venetians strove to place the 

 Great Captain at the head of their respective force*, the distrustful 

 king did not ceaae to make common cause with the envious courtiers, 

 and lucceeded in removing hi* most faithful subject from Italy. 



Returning to hi* country in 1507, and passing through Savona, where 

 Ferdinand and Louis XII. had an interview, he received the highest 

 attention* from the French king and hi* suite. More flattering still 

 and bordering almost on adoration was hi* reception in every part 

 of Spuin, except at court, where he met only with contumely. He 

 was even refuted the mastership of Santiago, which had been so 

 often and so solemnly promised him ; nor could he obtain leave to 

 join Cardinal Cisnero in hi* expedition to Africa. Nevertheless, in 

 the hour of need, when the new viceroy of Naples, Don Ramon de 

 Cardona, was defeated at Ravenna by Gaston de Foix, on Easter- 

 day, April llth, 1512, Ferdinand requested Oonzalo to organise a 

 fresh expedition to Italy. But when he was ready to depart with 

 hi* veterans and the volunteer* who hod flocked to his standard, 

 Ferdinand'* fears subsided, and distrust reassuming its wonted sway 

 over his mind, he ordered the disbanding of the forces. As the 

 army was composed of numerous volunteers who had parted with 

 all their property, in order to furnish themselves for the expedition, 

 their intended lender, grieved at the sacrifices which they had made, 

 and keenly feeling their disappointment, convened them at Antequora, 

 and rewarded them in a princely style. Such was the beat way of 

 enjoying his wealth, he said, when remonstrated with for the ex- 

 travagance of his munificence. At the same time he wrote to the 

 king a letter replete with bitterness and complaint. At length an 

 accumulation of mental suffering impaired his health, and terminated 

 hi* existence on the 2nd of December 1515. Two hundred tattered 

 banners and two royal pennons, once unfurled by the enemy, waved 

 over the tomb of the hero who raised the Spanish soldiery to that 

 superiority which they maintained in Europe for more than a 

 century. 



GOOD, JOHN MASON, M.D., wag born on the 25th of May 

 1764, at Epping, where bis father was minister of an Independent 

 congregation. He was educated at home, where ho studied Latin, 

 Greek, and French. At fifteen years old ho was apprenticed to a 

 surgeon in Gosport, on leaving whom he studied for a short time 

 at Guy's Hospital, and, in 1784, commenced practice in partnership 

 with a surgeon at Sudbury. He met however with but slight success ; 

 and in consequence of having engaged himself as security for a friend 

 who failed, be was induced to remove to London in 1793, princi- 

 pally with a view of obtaining employment iu literature. For a 

 time his progress was very slow ; but by perseverance he succeeded, 

 and in 1820 found himself so well established, both in literary and 

 professional fame, that he determined on taking the diploma of 

 M.I), at Marischal College, Aberdeen. From this time to his death, 

 which occurred in January 1827, after a long and painful illness, 

 he continued actively pursuing the practice of medicine and the study 

 of almoat all branches of science and literature. 



Dr. Good was a voluminous writer on various subjects, but none of 

 hi* work* have any permanent value ; his principal works were the 

 following : 



1795. ' Dissertation on Diseases of Prison* and Poorhouses,' prize 

 nay, publUhtd at the request of the London Medical Society, 12mo. 

 1795. 'A short History of Medicine,' published at the request of the 

 Pharmaceutical Society, 12mo. It consists principally of a history 

 of the practice of apothecaries in England. 1800. 'Translation, iu 

 Terse, of the Song of Solomon.' 1803. ' Memoirs of Dr. Geddes,' 1 

 Tol. 8vo. 1805. 'Translation of Lucretius' (in verse), 2 vols. 4 to., 



collecting materials for this work, and it served as an introduction to 

 the larger one which he published in 1822. 1821. ' Translation of 

 the Book of Proverb*.' 1822. 'Study of Medicine,' hi 4 vols. 8vo., 

 consisting of a digest of the several syttem* of nosology previously 

 publibLed, and an attempt to classify all described diseases in regular 

 orders, genera, Ac., as in the arrangement* employed in natural 

 history. 1826. ' Book of Nature,' 3 vol*. Svo. This work contained 

 the lecture* delivered by the author at the Surrey Institution on 

 the phenomena, 1st, of the material world; 2nd, of the animate 

 world ; 3rd, of the mind. 



' A Translation of the Book of Psalm* ' waa just completed at the 

 time of hi* death. These however were but a portion of his work*; 

 for some time previous to settling in London he had been a large 

 contributor to the ' World,' a daily newspaper, at that time in ex- 

 tensive circulation, and to the ' Analytical and Critical Review.' Of 

 the latter he wa* for a considerable time the editor; and very 

 many of the article* on theology, morals, and Eastern literature which 

 attracted most notice in it, as well a* in the British and Monthly 

 Magazines, were from hi* pen. He wa* engaged at the same time iu 

 many other literary pursuit*, as in the editing of the ' Pantologia,' in 

 conjunction with Mr. Bos worth and Dr. 0. Gregory, 



The extent and variety of Dr. Good's work* are sufficient to inJi- 

 cate their character ; they evince great industry, with a retentive and 

 orderly mind, and every mark of sincerity and piety ; but they show 

 that he was deficient in judgment, critical acumen, and personal 

 observation ; and his medical writing* especially are hence of far lea* 

 value than the labour that muit have been bestow, d upon them 

 might have given them, had it been better directed. But he seemed 

 to have no suspicion of his unfituess for any literary task ; and hence 

 never hesitated to undertake any project though most unsuited to hi* 

 habits and acquirement*. Thus, although wanting every requisite 

 qualification for such a duty, his overweening self-confidence led him 

 not only to consent to edit the Letters of Junius, but to select merely 

 from his own opinion of resemblance of style, other letter* which hod 

 been published under a great variety of names in Woodfall's Advertiser, 

 and without scruple assign them to the great unknown, to the utter 

 confusion, as it baa proved, of almost all subsequent investigation* 

 respecting the author of the Junius Letters, and judgment of his 

 character and conduct. Dr. Good's principal faculty seems to have 

 been a facility of acquiring languages : he had learned Latin, Greek, 

 and French, in his father's school ; while an apprentice he acquired 

 Italian, and soon after commenced Hebrew. While engaged iu the 

 translation of Lucretius he studied German, Spanish, and Portuguese; 

 and afterwards, at different times, Arabic, Persian, Russian, Sanscrit, 

 and Chinese. Of his knowledge of all these, evidence is presented iu 

 unpublished translations, in reviews of their literature, and in the 

 constant references made to their works in hi* medical and other 

 writings. A biography of Dr. Good was published by his friend Dr. 

 Olinthus Gregory, in 1 voL Svo. 



* GOODALL, the name of a father and son who have attained great 

 distinction among living English artists. 



* EDWARD GOODALL, the father, is best known by his vignette engrav- 

 ings after Turner. Born at Leeds in September 1795, he at an early 

 age commenced the study of art, and practised drawing, painting, 

 and engraving, but eventually adopted the lost as bis profession. It ia 

 said that he never studied as a regular pupil under any engraver ; and 

 it is certain that he adopted a decidedly original manner. He has 

 engraved a very large number of book illustrations, chiefly landscapes, 

 and it is in small landscapes, and especially the landscapes of Turner, 

 that his great strength lies. Nothing probably can surpass the exqui- 

 site tact with which Mr. Goodall has, in his vignettes, rendered the 

 peculiarities of Turner's manner. The vagueness of detail, and the 

 accuracy of general drawing, the extraordinary knowledge of natural 

 phenomena, the elaborately beautiful skies, the misty mountains, the 

 ever-varying water, and the often marvellous general effect all are 

 given with the most thorough truth and refinement in the unrivalled 

 little vignettes which adorn the ' Italy," and the ' Poems ' of Rogers. 

 Mr. Goodall has also engraved very admirably several larger plates, 

 after the same great master, iu Turner's ' South Coast,' and other 

 works ; and, of the full plate size, Turner's ' Cologne,' ' Tivoli,' and 

 ' Caligula's Bridge ; ' but it is in his vignettes that the great beauty and 

 delicacy of Goodall's burin are most conspicuous. 



* FBEDERIC GOODALL, the son, is a painter of history and genre. He 

 was born iu London in September 1822. His studies iu art have been 

 exclusively directed by his father; and so early had young Goodall 

 acquired mastery over his pencil, that when only fourteen he received 

 commissions to make drawings of Lambeth Palace, aud Willesden 

 church, and was employed by B. Hawes, Esq., M.P., to make a series 

 of drawings of the Thames Tunnel in its working state. His studies 

 in the tunnel furnished him with materials for his first oil picture, 

 ' Finding the Dead Body of a Miner by Torchlight,' which he com- 

 menced at the age of fifteen, aud for which the Society of Arts awarded" 



I him the large silver medal. During the summers of 1838-42, he made 

 sketching excursions in Normandy and Brittany, and bis studies there 

 supplied him with subjects of numerous pictures, representing chiefly 

 the peasant life of those countries. The first of these, ' French 

 Soldiers Playing at Cards in a Cabaret,' appeared (as his first painting 

 there) in the exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1839. Others of the 

 series were ' Entering and Leaving Church ; ' ' The Christening ; ' 

 'Veteran of the Old Guard Describing his Battles;' 'The Fair of 

 Fougeres;' ' Tired Soldier ;' ' Rustic Music ;' ' La FiJto duMariage;' 

 ' The Wounded Soldier Returned to his Family ; ' ' The Conscript ; ' 

 i ' Going to Vespers.' In 1844 Mr. Goodall was led to vary his style by 

 { a visit to Ireland, among the results of which were his 'Fairy Struck 

 i Child ; ' ' Irish Courtship ; ' ' Irish Piper/ and ' The Departure of the 

 Emigrant Ship : ' on the whole, perhaps these Irish pictures are the 

 most characteristic which he bos painted. Four or five years later 

 Mr. Qoodall commenced painting English subjects, and to these his 



