The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-19

THE uANDwRIIIEd OF BNINENT MEN.
Tho Saturday Rcrie,o, in an article on hand
writing, says
"If any foolish !nd, or stiIl more silly teacher
should imagine that It is the sigu Ut vulgar ana
meniBl education 20 write good hand, tho sooner
sChOolboy and pedagogue d,sRhusc themselves OF
thi- m-t AIKEN idea the better. The hghcst circles
Of Eugi,h society cultivate penmauship with
care aud sue ess. The Queens handwriting IL
hcautful--iiowing, and elegant, ana iemihlhe'
Prince AlbeTt's Uiographer compares the Prince
70 Goethe, who would take inordiuate pains
even IN writing short noe, that il should DO
admirably written. lie did no; understand tue
merit of second d-beSt, but everything that
was to bo done must he done perfectly. The
Prince COusOrt took the grea est in crest in
tie Calgraphy Of his children, and few young
people, we arc assured, write more elegantly,
and AZ be same time more distinctly than tue
Princes and PyiuCcsses Of England. Our highest
statesmen have not though 1t beneath them TO
cultivate clear and distinct lenmanship. LORD
PRulrstol's handwriting Is f,ce drm, ana, cou-
steering his great age, ~ no means obscure,
Lord Derby write, capital hand-Gt once elegant
and ogible-an GristocratC hand, II there ne su ID
thing. EG.l kussei's is smaller ana more
feminine hand, yet clear as his exp sitiGus 0! con-
sututiOLa law, and aS inClstvc ia IT'S sly le as some
uthts oespRtChes biting, though "a in matter.
"rhu Lord Chancellor writes hesujiu hand,
firm, solid, and lcgli-suca . hand as should
| have drawn up the BIZ Of flights. SIR hugh
Cairns IS smaller and, perhaps, more eie4Rnt-A
gcn-lCmaniy and clear hand. Mr.. CDhden's maud
/ Rrl ing is round, bold, and COmmCrcih-ttc Ia ma
! OF one who b gan lite as junior clerk IN days
when good pCumsusbip was perhaps the rule
4 rather than the exception among school-DOys OF
| any ambition. Mr.. Brights is a somewhat
, smaller hGud, rapid and flowing, yet leSih,e. MI.
, Glad-topc'e Is hUr tod and impetuous hand-
the writing of man whose thoughts tllw 80
tIick aud fast that they outstrip the pen. Yet lac
no dis the Quill in q Ia grasp, and his loters are
| large aud well furMed. Lord StGpleys writing
is by no means elegant, yet Il Is az distinct as
large print
and very distinct letters would perhaps gain him
the prize for ca iCraphy among living statesmen
vet his pCnmauship is inferior to that OF the latt
MuruCis uf Wellesley, who wrote perh tps, the
btst hauG Of hi, day. Considering how muct
writing the GoyernO Generals Of India, during
the lass bali C injury, had to do, il has been for
tunutc for East ludia DHeC orsi Boards OF Con
! lrul, and Indian Secretaries, that the yce.rega
ptumcn.hip has been so uniformly good. Lore
| W Et ut,rck'S word. aud letters sometimes run
lite into each O'her yet hi, ma vas hirl,
lrEinc Lord MiudJs was u firm good hand
Lurd Hating, aud Lord Ambors. each wrote
+ somewhat piCtuies luU hand yet every ltt or 9
/ both WAS rs cCar as print. LORD Auckland
{ hand was SiuFulMly round and legthle Lor
/ EutnbufOuch's ts too luly like anu huical 10 L
n yetv distinct; bur his successor, Lord DllhOu,i
4 wrote IN admirable model hand, and Lord Cat
t ling's was also an example OF good pcumdn hi
"A Every one remembers how plain and distinct wei
- h, note hc2iuuinr Il. NJ, the pake Of WglhuI
q ton pre- gut- his compliments although eyvI
Il on, may not be aware thit many of the COMMIT
Is liruiUus So highly uTge by GutoGr 'rh c1lectO
n WEe written ny the Duke secretary, NJ. Greytl
y, who Icrued 20 initiate his hand, In all tue
' ir.as,,s (auu wu might byug Giy othtrsl u
present !acC Of srNou boy, can lind ma suctl
o. cgCnuraErw M for iuUIlent ngglec OF iu'