Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-10-09
The Ar. of Conversation.

There people who have matter in them, which,
however il is hard for stranger draw in
gaon il to extract the meat from John Bunyans
wanus Frequently, however, the matter is confined to
Walter Scott, in letter to Joanna Baie wrote thus
never heard Of stranger that utterly bs ID all efforts
to engage him in conversation except whom
quantance OF mine met in stage coach. My friend, who
tortoise hands, but in vain ard at lepg descended
to exP0sulaOn " have talked 10 you, my friend. all
the ruling sufiects-iterature farm erchandse gaming
game laws horse races suits law politics. sWnd-
ing and biaspemy and phosophy-is there any one sub
ject which you will favor NE by opening uponP'
The wight wJlhed his c0untenance INTO grin 81 Sir"
said he can you say anything clever about beud leather ??
There, says sir Walter own shcud have been as
much nohLlused as my acquaintance.
The novelist Buwer who has reproduced this anecdote
in bis and Interesting Caxonana, ventures to doubt
Sir Walters modest assertion and that he should have
perceived that he had not there TO teach but to learn
and before the end of the journey he would have extracted
about bend leather This would have been to have
come ont in Of his books. suggested felicity 10
would have made the whole reading world merrer and
wiser and" adds Buwer, every man of sound brain
whom you meet knows something worth knowing better
In Illustrating the idea that if the whole be greater than
which is found in book" BulWer asks Wat would
you give have hours frank talk with Ghakspeare7
and replies to lis question" You cannot think of
yourself poorly to be that the end of the
hour you would have gotsOmethng out of Lin which fifty
plays" "' "''-N NV N''''' ~ ~ ''N wv VI ''''
"Caxtonaua aIudes to another writer poet as we'll
I q l
he exceedingly dull in company, the following
fences:
Goldsmith was said, by Garrck to write Ike an an.
N0thng than this that the player could not fahom
the poet. who writes like angel cannot always
talk like Poor Poll That Goldsmith, in hig peachcoored
coat awed by Johnson, bu lied by Boswell talked very
foolishy, well understand hut let any gentle reader
Of human brains and human hearts have got Goldsmith all
to himself bottle of Madeira in Goldsmiths own
lodgngs-taked Goldsmith lovingly and reverential y
about " Traveller 1.-THE Vicar of Wakefield" and
am that he would have gone away with the convic
ton that there something in the wespring of much
genius marvellous than its Gamondise spray-sOme
thrg in Oliver Goldsmith mmeasurahy greater than
these faint and ragmenary expressions OF the which
yet survives in the exquisite poem in the incompatible
novel.
1t is certainly great praise from such admired novel
st as BulWer when he prOEouDCes work of fiction
written by of lis predecessors il letters il
PARABLE
Ths poet Campbell is said to have resembed Goldsmith
in his conversational talents bis talk inferior t.
his fame ERIK of this kind made to Bulwe
by very popular writer and very brilliant converser
B1lwer could rot gnsay its JUSTICE his experenc
confirmed it, Yet he says Three days aferward, Camp
bell asked and sup with him tete- dtete. d
SO. went az len O'Clock stayed till dawn and al m
reooleCtons of the most sparkling talk have hear
in drawing afford nothing to equal the rioous flu
Of w.t. of humor Of fancy, Of genus that the grea
yIist poured forth in his wondrous monoogue. honolo
que it be had it all to himself All people b
studied by skltn conversatonalsts, and the writer add
to his illustrations. AS vary study in hooks W
should vary our study in men.