. History, genealogical and biographical, of the Eaton families. ule, butalso those who can succeed in showing inother departments of life that they havetalent for it. Some such fail and fall intoinsignificance, while others show a remark-able readiness to assimilate themsleves tothose whose task they share, and a creditableaptitude for the mysteries of Statecraft andthe social arts. Party and parties are ex-cellent schools, but it is not all the scholarswho are capable of receiving their teaching,and even of those many are arrested in theircareer by too great a rigidity of principleor too lit
. History, genealogical and biographical, of the Eaton families. ule, butalso those who can succeed in showing inother departments of life that they havetalent for it. Some such fail and fall intoinsignificance, while others show a remark-able readiness to assimilate themsleves tothose whose task they share, and a creditableaptitude for the mysteries of Statecraft andthe social arts. Party and parties are ex-cellent schools, but it is not all the scholarswho are capable of receiving their teaching,and even of those many are arrested in theircareer by too great a rigidity of principleor too little plasticity of character. Mr. Eaton has avoided all the obstacleswhich lie in such a road with a skill whichhas procured his acceptance as one worthy,if not of a direct hold upon the reins of power,at least of a voice in the halts and the advanceswhich the car of the State shall make, andin the great chorus of London Society. Ofcommerce he is an especial representative,for by shrewdness and conduct he has raisedhimself to the position of the first trader in. HON. HENRY WILLIAM EATON, M. P. —Statesman No. 95 from Vanity Fair. 26 EATOX GENEALOGY silk that we possess, and as such has fitlysat in the House of Commons for the last sixyears as Member for Coventry. Possessedof a large fortune and a generous disposition,he is a liberal patron of the arts, and willnot hesitate, should the fancy take him, tobuy the best picture, or even the best clubof the day. In politics he has disarmed envyby a notable talent of silence, and has propi-tiated his leaders by a faithful adhesion tothat Conservative party which has had theadvantage of gaining his adhesion. In sociallife he is accepted as the most smartly dressedof all Members of Parliament, and as one ofthose most appreciative of the most delicatesocial distinctions. Henry William Eaton, who made moneyin the silk trade, helped to manage InsuranceCompanies and to legislate at the biddingof Coventry. He also dabbled in Geographyand Hor
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