He also wrote a letter dated Dec.

1, 1832, to Gay Lussac, who was then one of the editors of the 'Annales de Chimie,' in which he analysed the results of the Italian philosophers, pointing out their errors, and defending himself from what he regarded as imputations on his character.

The style of this letter is unexceptionable, for Faraday could not write otherwise than as a gentleman; but the letter shows that had he willed it he could have hit hard.

We have heard much of Faraday's gentleness and sweetness and tenderness.

It is all true, but it is very incomplete.