. Review of reviews and world's work. Parnell wasnevertheless, as much as 0Council ever had been,the uncrowned King of Ireland. Charles Russell, a man genial, full of honhomie,constantly mingling on equal terms with all sortsand conditions of men—a man who never movedhis lips from the beaker of life until the vesselbroke in his eager grasp—was quite as little of astage Irishman as Mr. Parnell. He was not de-void of humor ; but he was totally devoid of therollicking carelessness with which the idle Celtconfronts the world and its cares. The tributespaid to him at his death by the bench, the bar
. Review of reviews and world's work. Parnell wasnevertheless, as much as 0Council ever had been,the uncrowned King of Ireland. Charles Russell, a man genial, full of honhomie,constantly mingling on equal terms with all sortsand conditions of men—a man who never movedhis lips from the beaker of life until the vesselbroke in his eager grasp—was quite as little of astage Irishman as Mr. Parnell. He was not de-void of humor ; but he was totally devoid of therollicking carelessness with which the idle Celtconfronts the world and its cares. The tributespaid to him at his death by the bench, the bar,and the press concur in atti-ibuting to him justthose qualities on which the English particularlypride themselves. He stands before us the typicalChief Justice of England, a splendid figure of aman—stately, dignified, a worthy personificationof Themis ; a terror to evil-doers, a praise tothem that do well. His magnificent power ofconcentration, his unwearying industry, his im-patience of rhetoric, his direct thrust to the very. THE LATE LOKD RUSSELL. (From a photograph of the famous portrait by the Ameri-can artist, J. S. Sargent, that appeared in this years LondonAcademy.)—27<c Illustrated London News. heart of things, his intense practicality,—all thetraits which the English most desire to see intheir great judges were embodied in Charles Rus-sell. SO ENGLISH, YOU KNOW. Yet he, the Lord Chief Justice of England,was not an Englishman. He was not even aScotchman. He was an Irishman through andthrough—Irish in birth, Irish in descent, Irishin politics, and Irish in religion. But for thirtyyears Russell was almost as supreme in the Eng-lish bar as Parnell was over tlie Nationalists ofIreland. The conceit of race, which so often makesEnglishmen disagreeable to their fellow-subjects, 426 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF RE^IEIVS. is proof against all argument. It will be affectedas little by the demonstrated superiority of CharlesRussell at the bar as by that of ano
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