[What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookWhat I Remember, Volume 2 CHAPTER XVI 42/46
See what Mr. Gladstone does with seventy of them in his frame.
And my lost one had but sixty-one and a half. "You are to come to England again in 1881, I remember, and then, if I am alive, I hope to see you.
With best love to you both, always, dear Mrs.Trollope, "Yours faithfully, "M.E.
LEWES." * * * * * The "words of Dr.Haller," to which the above letter refers, were to the effect that one of Lewes's great advantages in scientific and philosophical research was his familiar acquaintance with the works of German and French writers, which enabled him to follow the contemporaneous movement of science throughout Europe, whereas many writers of learning and ability wasted their own and their readers' time in investigating questions already fully investigated elsewhere, and advancing theories which had been previously proved or disproved without their knowledge.
Dr.Ludwig Haller, of Berlin, in writing to me about G.H.Lewes, then recently deceased, had said, if I remember rightly, that he had some intention of publishing a sketch of Lewes in some German periodical.
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