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Westminster. He spoke at a meeting on the land question, in 
support of kis opinion with regard to “ the unearned increment in 
the value of land.” He had previously published “ Chapters and 
Speeches on the Irish Land Question,” followed by a “Programme 
of the Land Tenure Reform Association.” During these weeks in 
London he mixed much in society. The writer of this Notice 
spent part of Mr Mill’s last day in England with him in his 
rooms in Westminster, when he seemed full of physical and 
intellectual vigour, and indulged in youthful recollections of his 
father and of Bentham. Next day, the 18th of April, he returned 
to Avignon. On Saturday the 3d of May, he made a long 
botanising excursion in that neighbourhood. Botanical research 
had been an enthusiasm of his life, and his original collection of 
herbaria is, I believe, of great value. He caught a chill on his 
way home. It issued in a severe form of erysipelas, of which he 
died on the morning of the following Thursday. He was buried 
the day after beside his wife. The Protestant pastor, the physi- 
cian, and his domestic servant, formed the small company of 
mourners who saw him laid in his grave. 
Mr Mill’s appearances in public in his later years, aided by the 
art of the photographer, have made his earnest, thoughtful face, 
with its sensitive, nervous action, familiar to many. A refined, 
delicate organism, and wiry form, suggested the moderately good 
health which, notwithstanding extraordinary intellectual labour 
he enjoyed through life. He was fond of walking ; allured 
by his love of botany and his passion for rural nature. He 
was a great reader of all sorts of current and periodical litera- 
ture. His conversation, like his books, was remarkable for its 
abundance of logically digested information, judicially deliberate, 
distinct, and everywhere vivified by the presence of active intelli- 
gence. He showed little or no appreciation of humour, hut both 
his spoken and written words revealed a subdued and grave emo- 
tional fervour, especially for the propagation of opinions in which 
he believed, and the promotion of social changes which be supposed 
to be advantageous. 
Probably no contemporary has modified more than Mr Mill the 
tone and manner of thinking of the fairly-educated community in 
G-reat Britain. The time is hardly come, however, for a satisfac- 
