His biographer says of him, that after a dinner at Pitt's, while the rest of the company were dispersed in conversation, he and Pitt would be observed poring over some old Grecian in a corner of the drawing-room.

Fox also was a diligent student of the Greek authors, and, like Pitt, read Lycophron.

He was also the author of a History of James II., though the book is only a fragment, and, it must be confessed, is rather a disappointing work.
One of the most able and laborious of our recent statesmen--with whom literature was a hobby as well as a pursuit--was the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis.

He was an excellent man of business--diligent, exact, and painstaking.

He filled by turns the offices of President of the Poor Law Board--the machinery of which he created,--Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, and Secretary at War; and in each he achieved the reputation of a thoroughly successful administrator.