Excerpt from The Christian Remembrancer, Vol. 25: A Quarterly Review; January-June, 1853 N 0 human topic can, for more than a very short period, sustain the undivided attention which this has claimed in the passing order of events. The mind relaxes, and the emergencies of life revive their pressing interests. After the pageantry of the funeral was over, the idea at len possessed as that we had done a national work, great and eserved indeed, but so ample, that its completeness became its chief characteristic, with the important corollary, that nothing else need be done. To prolong a subject beyond this assigned limit is tedious to nature, and after such violent tension of the mind in one direction, a season of repose is necessary, before the next stage in its history, that of calm retrospective interest, can fairly take its place. We are not unmindful of all these objectin antecedents to any attention which we may hope to claim 0 our readers to the subject we have undertaken. It is, moreover, only in a genoml sense that the subject affects us, for the public history of the Duke does not come within any particular province which may attach to this review. Yet, m spite of all this, by a diligent adherence to what we esteem our legitimate work, we Propose to retain the name of Wellington on the pages of periodical literature even at this distance of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.