Lives of this great man will soon come from the English press. One has recently appeared, of which a reviewer in an English daily paper says :

"Darwin was a native of Shrewsbury, and it was eminently fitting that a Shropshire man should communicate a sketch of his life and works to the county Archaeological Society, and that the same should be given to the world. The ' Proud Salopians' have indeed something to be proud of in that their county town gave birth to Darwin, and only less fortunate is Staffordshire, for Darwin's grandfather was in a sense a Lichfield man, and he and his family were very intimately associated by marriage with the Wedgwoods. Charles Darwin's father married a daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, the eminent potter; Darwin himself married his cousin, a daughter of the second Josiah Wedgwood; and a sister of Darwin also married into the same family. All necessary facts relating to Darwin's family history are clearly set forth in Mr. Woodall's monograph, and we have some original information respecting his schoolboy days, contributed by two of his schoolfellows who survive him. Darwin, who had little taste for the classics, used to say that Euclid, done as an extra subject, was the only bit of real education which he got at Shrewsbury Grammar School. Under the famous Dr. Butler, classics were everything at Shrewsbury, and therefore it was not surprising that Darwin won little distinction there.

The Rev. W. A. Leighton says he was reserved and fond of long, solitary rambles; but another schoolfellow, the Rev. J. Yard-ley, recollects him as a "cheerful, good-tempered, and communicative" lad, qualities which, as Mr. Woodall remarks, certainly distinguished him in after-life. He subsequently studied at Edinburgh and Cambridge, and took the B.A. and M.A. degrees in the ordinary course".