MRS GROTE survived her husband upwards of seven Englishwomen of the present century. Endowed in youth with great personal beauty, which matured into a grand expression and noble presence in advanced age, she possessed intellectual powers of the highest order, combined with a lofty sense of duty and the strictest regard to truth. The chief events of her life have been already related in the preceding notice of her husband. Her own writings, besides the biography of Mr Grote, are A Memoir of the Life of Aru Scheer (1860), and Collected Papers (original and reprinted) in Prose and Verse (1862), of which the most important are a "Review of M. Lavergne's Essay on the Rural Economy of England," " Case of the Poor against the Rich correctly stated," a " Review of Thomas Moore's Life and Works," and the " History of East Burnham." But though she wrote lucidly and powerfully, it has been well observed by one of her friends that "her writings fail to give a just idea of the irresistible fascination of her conversation. That she never succeeded in fully transmitting to paper ; and it remains a thing of unapproachable excellence and tender memory, only understood by those to whom it offered the highest mental enjoyment." (w. sm.)