Tardy Praise For Boswell

The Loudon Standard showed a becoming respect for letters by devotiug a "leader" the other day to the ïaeinory of Boswell, whose death took place a century ago. It makes perhaps inore of a tragedy of his end than the facts quite justify, but it does recognize his place in literature, ■which after all is the essential. His follies were not greater than Goldsmith's, and yet the world by a silly trick went on sniffing at " Bozzy" for generations. That nonsense is happily uow about dead. We are beginning to speak fittingly of one of the greatest writers in literatnre. Boswell is to all other biographers what Shakespeare is to other poets. Lockhart's "Life of Scott" is admirable, but it has only to be compared to the "Life of Johnson" toshow Boswell's superiority. Is it not time that the great biographer