The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
Chapter 23: 1853-54
John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 19 July 1854
“19th July 1854
“Dear Dean,—I have
now read your book all
through, and am very sorry to find myself at finis, but hope to see more vols, speedily. This is a
real good history, most learned, instructive, and abundant in sense and taste.
I beg pardon for praising it—excuse the presumptuous habits of an old
editor.
“I think A.
Stanley’s article a very able and interesting one—in
fact, the best thing he has as yet ![]()
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printed—always excepting passages in his
‘Arnold,’
which neither he nor another will readily beat.—Yours,
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the
Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the
Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881)
The son of Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich; he was educated at Rugby under Thomas
Arnold and at Balliol College, Oxford; he was regius professor of ecclesiastical history at
Oxford (1856) and Dean of Westminster (1863).
