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 THIRD MARQUESS OF SALISBURY 249

The marriage was not approved of by Lord Salisbury, who, indeed, seems to have cared little about his first family, concentrating all his affection on the children of his second wife. But it is not true that he marked his displeasure by cutting off supplies. Persistent stories to this effect were due, no doubt, to the fact that for many years Lord Robert Cecil increased his income by journalism, in which he was assisted by his clever wife. From 1857 to I ^65 he con- tributed to the Saturday Review, founded by his brother-in-law, Beresford-Hope, but his most important essays were written for the Quarterly Review, of which, for several years, from April, 1860, scarcely a number appeared without an article from his pen. These essays deal mainly with contemporary politics, both home and foreign, but include a few biographical articles, such as those on Castlereagh and Pitt, and one of a scientific nature, on photography. ' Written with all the freedom which the traditional anonymity of the Quarterly Review guarantees," says the writer, who first made known to the public the extent of Lord Salisbury's contributions to that periodical, 1 " these essays more truly portray the man than anything he said or did within the cramping limitations of parliamentary procedure, or under the restraining influence of party and ministerial responsibility. We have here not

1 Quarterly Review, January, 1904. A full list of these articles, thirty-three in all, is given in the Diet. Nat. Biog., 2nd Supp. I. 343. Several have been reprinted, in two volumes (Essays : Biographical, and Essays : Foreign Politics, Murray, 1905).

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