The only performances which Lord !holland sent to the press besides those already mentioned wcro 'A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Shuttleworth in favour of the Catholic Clalias, 8vo, London, 1827, and ' A Lotter from a Neapolitan to an Englishman,' which is stated to have been privately printed in 1818, and to have been written to clear up some misconception by Murat of a conversation which his lordship had had with him. But since his death his ' Foreign Reminiscences; I vol. 8vo, 1850, have been given to the world by liii son, Ilenry Edward, the present Lord Holland. For the reputation of Lord Holland this book would have been well left unpublished. It is utterly deficient in everything like largeness of view, while on the other hand it shows a strange fondness for the collection of scandalous anecdotes, especially if the scandal be of a prurient nature, and affect the credit of ladies connected with those to whom Lord Holland or his party have been opposed in sentiment or politics. Happily however for our common nature, many of the stories are of a kind to which it is almost impos sible to give credence, and the mischievous effects of those which bear a greater semblance to truth, though perhaps equally untrue, are to a great extent neutralised by the palpable carelessness of their author as to the source from which they are obtained. Another work, of which however only the first two volumes, 1852-54, have as yet appeared, under the editorial care of the present Lord Holland, is Memoirs of the Whig Party during My Time, by Henry Lord Holland.' Though free from the worst faults of the preceding volume, and con taining some things which will cause it to be referred to by the future student and historian of the period of which it treats, it is a work of a low intellectual and moral tone, and displays very little literary AUL The 'Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James edited by Lord John Russell, includes the materials of Lord Holland's much-talked-of and long-projected life of his illustrious uncle ; but they merely serve as evidence that Lord Holland had himself made but very little progress in his self-imposed task : the passages written by Lord Holland are contained in the first volume, and are marked V. H.' The posthumous publications of Lord Holland, it must be
confessed, have done very little to sustain the literary and intellectual prestige which daring his life had been so liberally accorded to him. Lord Holland is also the author of a translation of Ariosto's Seventh Satire, which Mr. Stuart Rose has printed in an Appendix to the fifth volume of his translation of the Orlando (1827).
As a speaker, Lord Holland was more animated than graceful; when he began, in particular, he was usually for some time extremely impeded and embarrassed; and he never rose from this hesitation into anything like the free and impetuous torrent of argument, or the impassioned declamation, by which his relative Mr. Fox, after a similar unpromising outset, used to carry everything before him. But his speaking had always the charm of honesty and earnestness; and It commonly also indicated, with however little of what could be called brilliancy, a well iuformed mind. Lord Holland was much beloved by as extensive and varied a circle of friends as perhaps any man ever possessed; and his house at Kensington, interesting from its earlier history, was duriog all his lifetime the resort of persons distinguished both in the world of politics and in that of literature.