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Augusta Tovell Bain's Practical Essays.-Corning's Brain Exhaustion.- FRANCIS BACON.* 85 86 91 91 [VOL. V, No. 52.] TERMS $1.50 PER YEAR. treating the difficult passages of the Essex trial and of Bacon's fall, not with ingenious casuistry, but according to the canons of every-day morality. Even such a book has the accomplished and painstaking Dean of St. Paul's given us: nothing material, either favorable or unfavorable to Bacon, seems omitted save the painful episode of Peacham, of which, strangely enough, not a word is said. The book is divided into nine chapters, entitled respectively: Early Life, Bacon and Elizabeth, Bacon and James I, Bacon SolicitorGeneral, Bacon Attorney-General and Chancellor, Bacon's Fall, Bacon's Last Years, Bacon's Philosophy, Bacon as a Writer. In treating of one who lived, as did Bacon, a double life the one that of the somewhat unscrupulous man of affairs, the shrewd lawyer, the inveterate place-hunter; the other, that of the industrious man of letters, the curious investigator, the discursive philoso93 phical thinker, it would be unfair to consider all the questionable doings of his active life apart from the aims and results of his contemplative life. The apparent selfishness and even baseness sometimes characterizing his conduct can only be understood, not to say excused, by one who has ascertained the really lofty and peremptory nature of the motives prompting him to spend so much precious time in seeking and administering official trusts, which inferior men. sought more successfully and administered as well. Accordingly, the double life of Bacon is, with great skill, made prominent all through the narrative portion of the book, so that the reader is nowhere permitted to forget the immortal Bacon who thought and wrote, in his sorrow and indignation over the mortal Bacon who squabbled in the forum with Coke, took and denied Awbry's bribe, toadied Villiers, assisted at the torture of Peacham, betrayed Essex, and apotheosized James. A life of Bacon so judicious, candid, impartial, and yet so sympathetic as this, was well worth writing; but such a book is very difficult to write. The lights and shadows of Bacon's character are so iridescent, the phases of his mental activity so kaleidoscopic, as to afford an ample opportunity for plausible epigrams like Pope's, or clever special pleas like Macaulay's. Essayists not a few have cried down Bacon's life and cried up his philosophy, and nowadays there are some who seek to decry both. Laborious biographers and editors have devoted their lives to the task of persuading themselves and the world that Bacon's "civil ends were not only as "moderate" but as pure as his "contemplative ends" were "vast," and have attempted to inscribe over against his name upon the page of history, not only "greatest, wisest," but "noblest" of mankind. An authoritative book was really needed, which, abstaining equally from epigram, from invective, and from eulogy, should set forth, as clearly and as soberly as might be, the authentic facts of this memorable life, blanching nothing and setting naught down in malice, *BACON. BY R. W. Church, Dean of St. Paul's. "English Men of Letters." New York: Harper & Brothers. When Milton said, in the reign of Charles I, that "under such a despotism no free and splendid wit could flourish," was he thinking of the relation of Bacon to Elizabeth and to James ? 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