The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-02-25


by two or three that start out of the
crowd, when he unexpectedly present
ed himself in my room, announcing
how that some passage in o certain
book had made. him cry yesterday,
and how that he had come to dinner,
"because he couldn't help it." and
must talk some passage over. No
one can ever have seen him more gen
ial, natural, cordial, fresh and honestly
limpulsiye thanyI / have seen. him at
those times. No one can be surer than
of the greatness and goodness of the
heart that then disclosed itself, 4. Oh
+ We had our differences of opinion. -
l thought that he too much feigned a
WANT Of earnestness, and that he made
4 pretense of undertaking his art,
which was not good for the art that he
held IN trust. But when he fell upon
these topics it was never very gravely,
and have u lively image of him in
my mihd, twisting both his hands in
his hair, and stamping about, laugh
ing to make an end Of the discussion.
when we We're associated. in re-
membrance Of the late Mr.. Douglas
Jerrold, he delivered a public lecture
in London, in the course of which he
read his very best contribution 10
Punch, describing the grown-up cares
ofa poor family of young children. L.
No one hearing him could have doubt
ed his natural gepteness, or his thor
oughly unaffected manly sympathy
with the weak. and lowly. He read
the paper most pathetically, and with
a simplicity of tenderness that certain
y moved one Of his audience to tears.
This was presently after his standing
for Oxford, from which place he had
dispatched his agent to me, with a
droH note TO which he afterward ad-
ded q verbal postscript urging me to
conre, down aad make speech, and
tell them who Ire was, for he doubted
whether more thar two Of the electors
had ever heard of him, and he thought
there might be as many as six or eight
who had heard ofme. He introduced
the lecture just mentioned, With a ref, |
crence to his late eicctioneeing failure,
which was full of good scncc, good spir,,
its and good humor. '7I
Gle had a particular delight IN boys
and an excellent way With them. Ire
member his once asking me with fan
tastic gravity, when he had been TO
Elton, where my eldest boy then was, |
whether | felt as he did in regard of
never sceinga boy without wantingin-,
stantly to give him a sovereign. j !
thought of this when / looked down |
into his grave, after he was laid there,
for | looked down into it over the
shoulder of n boy to whom lie had
been kind. ....
"These are slightremembrauces but
it is tolittle familiar things, suggestive
OF the voice, look, manner, never,never
more to be encountered on this earth,
that the mind first turns in q bereavc-
ment And greater things that are
knownof him, in theway of his warm
affections, his quiet endurance, his un-
selfish thoughttulness for others, and
his munifccnt hand. may not be told.
eff in thoroekless vivacity ofyouth,
his satirical pen had ever. gone lastray,
on done amissy he had cansedit to pre-.
Ter its own petition for forgiveness.
Iong before
"a I've writ the foolish f,pcy Of his brain,
The aimlcss jest that striking hath caused pain;
The idle wordthat he'd wish back again." 2
"ln opages should / take it upon
myself at tins time to discourse of his
books, Of his refined knowledge of char
lcter, of his subtitle acquaintance with
he weakness of human nature, Of his
delightful ,playfulness as. an essayist
'fi his quaint and touching ballads, of
lis mastery over the English language.
Least Of AL, in these 7pages, enriched
~ hissbrilliant qualities from the Sc
les, and beforehand accepted by the
public through the, strength Of his
,reat name.
But on the table before me, there )
les all he had written ofhis latest and |
asI story. That. it would be sad to !
my onerthat i is inexpressibly so to !
! Wrlter-7lnn is evidences of matured ,
lleslSns never to beeompleted, Of care
nl preparation for long roads of c
holpght that he was never to traverse,
ma ior shining goals that he was new
|, 70 reach, will be readily believed !
[5he pam, however, that l have felt in
,,erusing It has not been deeper than :