pected - and that by such a course the popularity and authority of the Review would be fatally impaired, even for its literary judgments: -and upon one of these occasions, I am quite certain that I made use of this expression to him, -"The Review, in short, has but two legs to stand on. Literature no doubt is one of them: But its Right leg is Politics." Of this I have the clearest recollection. I have dwelt too long, I fear, on this slight but somewhat painful incident of my early days. But I cannot finally take leave of it without stating my own strong conviction of what must have actually passed on the occasion so often referred to; and of the way in which I conceive my illustrious friend to have been led to the inaccuracy I have already noticed, in his report of it. I have already said, that I do not pretend to have any recollection of this particular conversation: But combining the details which are given in Sir Walter's letter, with my certain knowledge of the tenor of many previous conversations on the same subject, I have now little doubt that, after deprecating his threatened secession from our ranks, I acknowledged my regret at the needless asperity of some of our recent diatribes on politics - expressed my own disapprobation of violence and personality in such discussions - and engaged to do what I could to repress or avoid such excesses for the future. It is easy, I think, to see how this engagement - to discourage, so far as my influence went, all violent and unfair party politics, — might be represented, in Sir Walter's brief and summary report, as an engagement to avoid party politics altogether:-the inaccuracy amounting only to the omission of a qualification, which he probably ascribed less importance than truly belonged to it. to Other imputations, I am aware, have been publicly made against me, far heavier than this which has tempted me into so long an explanation. But with these I do not now concern myself: And, as they never gave me a moment's anxiety at the time, so I am now contented to refer, for their refutation, to the tenor of all I have ever written, and the testimony of all to whom I have been personally known. 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