...> from all such perils; but it must be admitted, on the other hand, that when his brother collects a dozen pages of his table-talk at the end of his memoirs, or when one reads his own list of them in Kavanagh , the reader feels a slight inadequacy, as of things good enough to be said, but not quite worth the printing. Yet at their best, they are sometimes pungent and telling, as where he says, When looki...