A 'Standpatter' of the Eighteenth Century.

This article focuses on the book "The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain," by Philip C. Yorke. Yorke is a descendant of the Chancellor, and so had no difficulty in placing himself in the environment of his hero, through the perusal of family letters, listening to family traditions, and by the careful study of the activities of his ancestors chronicled in many state papers, private correspondence, and contemporary memoirs. The perusal of his three ponderous volumes gives evidence of his industry and his conscientious attempt to perform an act of piety; but that same perusal has left the reviewer with a feeling of having been present during most of the laborious undertaking.