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104 lo 4 THE L ONGMAN FA MIL Y. his spine ; and in a few days afterwards he died at his residence, Greenhill House, Hampstead, on 28th August, 1842 leaving a blank, not only in his own family circle, but in the hearts of all who had known him as a master, or had reaped a benefit from the uni- form generosity of his business dealings. Mr. McCulloch and many of his literary clients erected a monument, the bust of which, by Mr. Moore, is said to be a good likeness, to his memory an affectionate tribute seldom paid by men-of-letters to a publisher now standing in Hampstead church. His personalty was sworn under ^"200,000, and was principally left to his widow and family. The former, however, did not long survive her sorrow, but died some ten weeks after her husband. Their second son, Mr. Charles Longman, of Two Waters, joined Mr. Dickenson, in the trade of whole- sale stationers and paper-makers, in which they have since then attained a pre-eminence. Their eldest daughter married Mr. Spottiswoode, the Queen's printer, and the third daughter is the wife of Reginald Bray, Esq., of Shere. The succession of a Thomas Longman to the chief- dom of the house is, Mr. Knight says somewhere, as certain as the accession of a George was in the Hano- verian dynasty : and the present Mr. Longman, aided by his brother William, took command of the gigantic firm in Paternoster Row. The very year of their father's death was a year to be long remembered in the annals of the firm for an unusually successful "hit," in the production of the Lays of Ancient Rome. Not even in the palmy days of Scott and Byron was such an immediate and enormous circulation attained. In 1844, Macaulay ceased to contribute to the Edinburgh