Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L.: In Two Volumes. Volume II.Reeve, Henry
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Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L.: In Two Volumes. Volume II.
Reeve, Henry
Journalists -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Biography; Reeve, Henry, 1813-1895; Reeve, Henry, 1813-1895 -- Correspondence
Cher Monsieur Reeve,--J'ai recu le numero de la _Revue d'Edimbourg_, et je
vous en remercie. Le redacteur de l'article a ete plein de bienveillance a
mon egard, et je vous prie de lui faire savoir que je suis fort touche de
l'appreciation qu'il veut bien faire de mes travaux. Je profiterai de ses
justes critiques pour mes autres traductions; mais il est un point ou je ne
suis pas tout a fait d'accord avec lui. Je ne trouve pas qu'il tienne assez
compte a Aristote d'avoir commence la science, et de l'avoir fondee.
Les debuts sont toujours excessivement difficiles, et il ne serait pas
equitable de demander a ces temps recules de savoir tout ce que nous savons
aujourd'hui. Nous devons toujours nous dire que dans deux mille ans d'ici
on en saura beaucoup plus que nous, tout savants que nous sommes. Ceci doit
nous engager a etre reconnaissants et modestes.
Je vais mettre sous presse le Traite des Parties des Animaux en deux
volumes, et je prepare celui de la Generation, qui, sans doute, en aura
trois.
J'espere que vous vous portez bien, ainsi que Madame Henry Reeve; je lui
presente mes respects et mes amities, avec tons mes voeux pour sa sante et
pour la votre.
Votre bien devoue,
B. ST.-HILAIRE.
The Journal here has:--
_October 28th_.--Dinner of The Club to Lord Dufferin before his departure
for India.
_November 14th_.--Dinner at Lady Molesworth's to the Waddingtons.
_December 3rd_.--Small dinner at Lord Cork's, with Gladstone and Sir H.
James.
_From Sir Henry Taylor_
Bournemouth, December 10th.
Dear Mr. Reeve,--It has come into the head of my family, and through theirs
into mine, that there is no particular reason why my Autobiography should
not be published now, instead of posthumously, and that there are some
motives for giving a preference to present publication. The agreement
with Messrs. Longman which you brought about has been, perhaps, a sort of
suggestion of this change of purpose; so I write to mention it. The work
was written with more unreserve than would be natural to a man who hears
what he says, and some erasures will be required; but a man in his
eighty-fifth year is, in some respects, as good as dead, or, at all
events, as deaf: so there need not be much alteration. I hope you will not
disapprove.
Believe me, yours very sincerely,
HENRY TAYLOR.
On December 17th the Reeves went to Foxholes, where they spent Christmas,
ushered in the New Year, and returned to London on January 15th, 1885. The
entries in the Journal are for the most part trivial, though politically
the year was one of extreme interest and excitement, much of which is
reflected in the correspondence.
_From the Comte de Paris_
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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