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AUTHORS AND TALKERs.

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Ph'!Hd, PHI" Press -r,nr r"oil.cticns OF
tn" great 'a;k.,<' WHO have parsed ill.,.
e'''sh ! of lis -ap-,ienre:
There WIS Parr, wiu died wien We were
III 'hr mi'i''lr OF chi teens. He ~ss t..
"':g'd. l""a, t'r, !,-l' < mass cf ea,ui,v
" h" .'rore t" he JnLns ,nlnn. and lu.i.rnus-
ly failed, To arply sentence "f Brrkrs,
tn" "Ah'i'i'ed the rtntorti,Es Of the S, hil
"rh"nt t"r inspiration, the no''..i'v Of thu
oak without lis strength" Ds. SAMUEL
Par, Who never frsgn,- Pruv,d"uce Le
cause Mr.. Fox did not mak- him bishop.
WAS grca, rail er rinn a CORD rr,.versa.
''"nnI'S', a"i arcrtnin o+gr-r of coarseness
mn''" hiIn rpn'siv- ahd d,slkrd
There WAS C"ierdgr. ~!i"s.. latter years
WIS LITERALLY Passed away IN talk lie hal
''or'"rs- AMI varied Al;airnerts, genuine.
poetic feeling. strong logical powers, grea,
ri'e'"rr"i skill, r-rva1ing sense Of tn.
beautiful, clear ic:ions on revelation
and Faith, and command of language
wh"h reminded ON of an Italian in mo
v'satore. He would pour forth Nh ava
la''ci'e of C"uversaiiop 10 crowd of ad-
'nlri auditors-if that can t.e called con-
vtrsafIou, wi.rre one man had all the talk
ing to himsxi. Halt the time he WAS un-
der the n"no'onpus sound of his voice had
soothing effect. Over hiR own circl., his
sway Vas great, but then his circle WAS
not large. There WI Sir James Mackin-
tosh, With y surind fHe,,-we might say
even Gro" dedc- with information. His
conversation WAS extraordinary, from the
vast numaer Of topics which 1t Embraced,
As we'll n from tie admirable language in
t" which he pnt his thoughts without the
slightest effort. For nearly twenty five
years. extending from hs return from india,
where h. had hern Judge, to his death, in
1882. Markntosh was the oracle Of. that
large segment Of society in which he lived.
But breathing only the atmosphere Of
Whis'asso''iatinn, what Goldsmith said of
Burke might be applied to Macintosh, that
he
Narrowed his mind
And to party gave up what was meant for
mankind
There was Sir Walter Scott, who more
than any other since johnson, received tlia
homage Of his literary contemporaries "a
well as of s'"i-'v at large. Had he lived
! III London. as Johnson always lived. Srotts
| supremacy won'.l probably have hesr, aven
greater than that cf the great lexicopfapt-
er. H. made onlc few vi>i's, and was
"wf"''v 1i"n;ze'' during eachs8fs Hen.
Wordsworth, ec need scarcely, mention,
though he -njoy"d grra. consideration in
London sori"ty witch Ilnweversbr,y visited
even schooner than did srooHs. Bis converse.
which flowed perretua'Iv si8as Amos, wh"l.
~ his own poems. and entirely. unrelieved
hv the slightest Wit or },n,nor. [:|.
There ,emain two. Brongl,am and Ma-
canl"y--a pair Of intel!ectust lila
difficult to decide between tEeirrfs sir3s}bsss
for supremacy in society. We nlRHk dss
tinguisb. perhaps. and say that, ,ia:f
mixed assembly. BroughaA sgaslia fifase
more influences; 40 v,st stsgs Of hi.
mind and 40 eorious s7as well. A. striking.
+ his caSvsns.ion.. Bntan,epe aaibera, and
people If literary tssfrt, 15MasanIay would
.asaurrd1y bs eonsidersd. .spperinr: One adj,
vantage is pnsseseed by Brdnehnm- -hs
slors not menoaalizslha conversation. bui
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