in his Life quotes some recollections of yo Townsend which give us an interesting pict of Howard's Sundays. Townsend found, to pleasure, that he was to be Howard's guest the four Sundays on which he was told of take the duty at Bedford. "He found him disposed to talk much; and supposed that talked to him less than he would otherwise b done, because he was young in years, and aln boyish in appearance; besides, that he sat a short time at table, and was in motion du the whole day. On the Sabbath he ate li or no dinner, and spent the interval betw the morning and afternoon service in a pri room, alone. He had prayer in his family e day, morning and evening, and read the Sc tures himself; but asked his guest to pray. was very abstemious, lived chiefly upon vegetal ate little animal food, and drank no wine spirits. He hated praise; and when Mr. To send once mentioned to him his labours benevolence, he spoke of them slightingly a whim of his, and immediately changed subject," 1

The first minister appointed to the meeting-house was one Thomas Smith, 1 Brown's Life, p. 115.

the two friends were constantly together. Smith's daughter has left on record that ther used to say that his intercourse with rd gave him some of the most delightful of his life. "Mr. Howard would then Letely unbend himself, and give the most esting accounts of his past travels; open to 11 his future plans, all his trials and sorrowsort, every feeling of his heart, in the most and confidential manner." The two men to take long rides together in the mornings, Howard delighted to keep his friend out ng that he would be too late for his early r, when he would say to him, "I find, my , that you can fast as long as I can; but you must go to Cardington and spend the with me, as Mrs. Smith will have dined before this time." 1

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vill be remembered that, on his wife's death, rd was left with the care of a little boy a few days old. The story of the poor ; life is an unhappy one, and as Howard's ment of his son has been made the subject ne controversy it cannot be altogether 1 Stoughton's John Howard, p. 85.

brought up on Spartan principles, and subjec to a sterner discipline than was wise. Ind Aikin admits that, in after years, How "was sensible that he had in some meas mistaken the mode of forming his son to t character he wished him to acquire." 1 But th is also no doubt whatever that he was at ho a most affectionate father, devoted to his ch and that, whatever severity of treatment th may have been was caused, not by unkindn but by an injudicious attempt to carry out principles. Frequent references in his diary : correspondence show that his "ever-dear bo was constantly in his thoughts. It is impossi to read them without feeling that they are themselves amply sufficient to repel the not that there was any lack of affection on his pa while the charge of habitual cruelty that brought against him soon after his death immediately refuted by his friends, and sho

1 Aikin's View, etc., p. 47. It is not a pleasant st which is told by Brown (Life, p. 62), as illustrating Spartan discipline to which the boy was subjected-t on one occasion when Howard, accompanied by his s was walking in the garden with a lady, the poor ch was bidden to take off his shoes, and walk as best could without them, till his father ordered him to them on again.

: of shutting up his son in the root-house ed in his garden, and of confining him there ight. Brown, who gives the story, made ul investigation into the truth of it, and s the result of his inquiries as follows: One afternoon, as he was walking with the

in the garden, according to his usual ice, whilst the servants were at dinner, he him into the root-house, and, after having engaged in playing with him for some time, at him down upon the matted bench, and, ; called away at the moment by the arrival gentleman who wished particularly to see told him to stay there until he returned. mind being occupied with the business upon h he had been brought into the house, he tunately forgot the child and the situation hich he had left him; and it was two or e hours before he came into his mind, when nastened to the root-house, and found him g very contentedly where he had placed

On finding that the child had been left ong alone, he was very much vexed with elf at his absence of mind, and took him ediately in his arms into the house; telling

The story, Brown says, was well known Howard's friends, and to some of his servan who had a distinct recollection of it.1 Yet this simple accident the absurd charge habitual cruelty has been based; for it w nothing but a baseless calumny which suggest that young Howard's subsequent unhappy caree and the hopeless insanity which overtook hi at an early age, were due to the sufferings I was made to endure as a child. This notic was suggested in a singularly ungenerous noti of Howard which appeared in the Gentlemar Magazine2 immediately after his death. Not particle of evidence was ever brought forwa to confirm it, and against it may be set t unanimous testimony of those who were acquaint with the family, and remembered young Howa as a child. The witness of several of these, i cluding personal friends and domestic servan is quoted in Brown's Life; and it is perfect clear that, while Howard had a horror of an thing like indulgence, and had a great beli in the efficacy of "firmness," on which evidently prided himself, there was, beyond t Spartan discipline to which he subjected hi