The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

192 LIFE OF SIR ROWLAND HILL. [1849-51
in the first number of
pen of Mr. Charles Dickens, published
"
the second a much longer and more elaborate
" Household Words ;
treatise, though scarcely less amusing, from the pen
of Sir Francis
Head, published in the "Quarterly Review;" an ample amends for
the attack in the same publication ten years before. With both
gentlemen I had pleasing intercourse on the occasion, particularly so
with the latter, who, requiring more extensive information, and taking
great pains to get a correct notion of the leading principles of the
whole system, necessarily passed more time in my company. His
conversation I found as amusing as his writings.
I may add that his article deals ably with the question of Sunday
labour, and very clearly sets forth the mechanism of the office. It
will be found in No. 177 of the " Review," or in Sir Francis Head's
"
Descriptive Essays," Vol. n., p. 286.