except on the stipulation of Dr. Hope's making himself responsible for the whole expense.

He had originally proposed his work in folio, but he afterwards consented to its appearing in its present large octavo form, because he found that, in folio, it would be too expensive to be at all within the reach of the student. He, therefore, determined to sacrifice, in some degree, its value as a work of art to that consideration, which was always uppermost in his estimation-public usefulness. This work met with a reception no less favourable than that on the heart, and, in a pecuniary light, more than answered the expectations of Messrs. Whittaker.

Dr. Hope's collection of original drawings had the rare advantage of being executed by one no less excellent as a draftsman than as an anatomist, a circumstance which gave them a truth and a medical value possessed by no similar work. This advantage he managed to extend to the lithographed plates; for, although he had not time to do these himself, yet they were done under his roof, subject to his constant supervision and explanation; and when they were brought to a certain point, he took the pencil, and, devoting a day to their completion, gave accuracy to their anatomical character. In the same way, he coloured the first plate of each as a pattern to the colourers, and when completed, all the coloured plates were inspected by him and altered if they were not true to

nature. Most, if not all, the copies presented to public libraries, he coloured himself. The first five numbers came out monthly. The complicated labours of writing the portion of letter-press attached to each, of superintending the colourers, and of directing and finishing the lithography, at a time too, when he had the charge of ninety beds in the Marylebone Infirmary, were, however, more than he could manage. He found it necessary to make the intervals of publication longer, and the last seven numbers were published every two months. The whole work was completed in nineteen months, the first number having appeared on the 1st January, 1833.

While making arrangements for the publication of the morbid anatomy, Dr. Hope formed the design of giving a course of lectures on diseases of the chest, and fixed upon St. George's Hospital as the place best suited to his purpose. He mentioned the subject privately to some of the medical officers of that institution, but was given to understand that permission would not be granted, as he was not officially connected with the hospital. He, therefore, never made a formal application. In accordance with the rule which he had laid down not to connect himself with institutions of secondary rank, he preferred lecturing at his own house to doing so at one of the minor schools. These lectures were intended not for students, but for practitioners. He accordingly, in the autumn of 1832, delivered about five-and-twenty

lectures at his own house, and commanded a regular attendance of from thirty to forty, which, considering that they were all practitioners, was more than he could have expected. The lectures were highly esteemed by those who heard them, and tended to increase his professional reputation.

Notwithstanding these numerous avocations, and the very great labours which Dr. Hope underwent in rapid succession, his health was remarkably good. He had never had a day's illness except an attack of lumbago, which confined him to his room for no more than three days. A cough was unknown to him. He could, with ease, walk twenty miles, and, when in the country, and led on by his passion for trout-fishing, he was in the frequent habit of doing so. If, at any time, he seemed over-worked, a day or two spent in the country, in fishing, shooting, or any other strong exercise, was sufficient to recruit him. On one occasion, while working almost night and day at the morbid anatomy, urgent business required him to make a hurried journey into the country. He travelled twenty-four hours without stopping; and, so far from being fatigued, he was refreshed by the country air and relaxation from study.

CHAPTER III.

WHILE reading of the public career of a man whose name is ennobled by the achievements of military or civil greatness, or by eminence in the less ostentatious though perhaps more useful pursuits of science, our admiration may be called forth, and the emulation of the young may be fired at the bright example set before them. But when we draw aside the veil from private life, when we enter on the details of those social virtues and warm affections which have characterised the same individual in domestic retirement, when we go further, and inquire what has been the main-spring of action and the true source of feeling, then the picture grows vivid and life-like: each observer finds that which has a responsive chord within his own breast, and receives at once a stimulus and a guide to imitation.

Though it is far from our intention to infringe the sacred privacy of domestic life, we hope to be excused for entering into its details so far as may be conducive to the object above stated.

The following extract from a letter, written by the Rev. John Rate, of Trevery, in Cornwall, gives a graphic description of Dr. Hope's character and habits of mind. As Mr. Rate was on terms of the closest intimacy with him, often spending several months together under his roof, no one could have had

a better opportunity of judging of him, and we may add that Mr. Rate's own character peculiarly qualified him to enter into that of Dr. Hope.

"I think it was in the autumn of 1828, soon after Dr. Hope had returned from the continent, that I first met him at Richmond. His conversation, full of interesting thought and information, and his manners, indicative of a peculiarly amiable and gentle disposition, did not fail at once to attract my regard. It was about the end of this year that I first went to stay with him. He began, I believe, about that time to compose his work on Diseases of the Heart, and that on Morbid Anatomy. I was struck with the remarkable power he possessed of concentrating his mind at once on any subject to which he turned his attention. When he sat down to write, he could so fix his thoughts on his subject that he was not in the least disturbed by conversation or noise in the room, however great. When he had finished what he intended to do, he could enter, with equal interest and power of fixed attention, on any other subject to which he directed his mind. It was his habit to recline in an easy chair after dinner. Often, on such occasions, I have spoken to him, and, concluded that he was asleep; when I afterwards found that he had been deeply occupied in pursuing a train of thought. When walking with him, he would at times become similarly abstracted. His mind was always in a high state of activity, and when

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