Another interesting name begins to appear in the correspondence of this autumn, 1862 — that of Mr A. W. Kinglake, the historian of the Crimean War. His introduction has been slightly alluded to in the second volume by Mrs Oliphant, with the mention of the sending of the first portion of the book by Mr Kinglake's aunt, Mrs Woodford. This was not, however, arrived at without many preliminaries, many inquiries from my father, and many stipulations on the part of the author. My father naturally wanted to know what manner of book this was going to be that would fill two volumes. Those were to be its dimensions at first, and even this seemed lengthy enough; for, as my father observed, in a letter to the author before seeing any of the work, “knowing how rapidly interest in the Crimean War had been obliterated by succeeding events, any success this book had would entirely hinge upon its merits as a historical and literary composition.” How successfully Kinglake rose to this view of the case is well known now by all who have read or who know about his history, which, though it expanded into eight volumes, sustained its interest to the end, and established the reputation of its author as one of the most able masters of composition, and perhaps, in his own line, one of the most eminent writers of our time.