The first touch which came home to him was Jingle's "Handsome Englishman ?" In that phrase he recognised a master; and, by the time that he landed in England, he knew his Pickwick almost as intimately as his Grandison.
Calcutta: June 15, 1837 Dear Napier,--Your letter about my review of Mackintosh miscarried, vexatiously enough.

I should have been glad to know what was thought of my performance among friends and foes; for here we have no information on such subjects.

The literary correspondents of the Calcutta newspapers seem to be penny-a-line risen, whose whole stock of literature comes from the conversations in the Green Room.
My long article on Bacon has, no doubt, been in your hands some time.

I never, to the best of my recollection, proposed to review Hannah More's Life or Works.

If I did, it must have been in jest.