Produced by Paul Murray, ronnie sahlberg and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net CRITICAL MISCELLANIES BY JOHN MORLEY VOL. III. Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904 * * * * * W. R. GREG: A SKETCH. Characteristics 213 Born at Manchester in 1809 215 Mathew Henry Greg 217 Goes to the Edinburgh University in the winter of 1826-1827 220 Sir William Hamilton 221 Mother died, 1828 224 The Apprentice House 225 De Tocqueville 229 Goes abroad 231 _Genius of the Nineteenth Century_ 232 Starts in business on his own account at Bury, 1833 235 Marries the daughter of Dr. Henry in 1835 236 Moves to the Lakes 238 Sir George Cornewall Lewis 244 Offered a place on the Board of Customs, 1856 244 Letter to James Spedding, May 24, 1856 245 Marries again in 1874 the daughter of Mr. James Wilson 246 Death of his brother-in-law, Walter Bagehot (1877) 247 Letter to Lady Derby 247 Died November 1881 248 _Enigmas of Life_, 1875 252 Letter to Lord Grey, May 28, 1874 255 Conclusion 256 * * * * * W. R. GREG: A SKETCH.