The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-06

| CHARLES KINGSLEY AND JAMES ANTHONY
FRoUDE.-Mr. M. B. Conway, writing from
London to the Boston Commonwealth. speaks
in the following terms of two prominent Eng
lishmen of letters:
This man who came before the world as a
writer of Chartist novels, has been found
ready to yield to every social temptation which
| he has ever described hero as vapuishing,
| and has at last become such an utter flunkeY.
such wretched sycophant, that his ideal OF
a reward for the negro butcher Eyre, is that he
| shall be made great peer! This from the au-
thor OF Alton Locke! But this is only an ex-
preston of Kingsley, whose life is one long
piecesOf servility to titles and wealth. There
| is about him look of coarseness which plain
ly. shows the low origin of which he is
ashamed, and which, together with his for
mer poverty, make him, in the absence of
any magnanimity, howard in the pulpit and a
sycophant In society. By this means, in the
eneraledearth of brains among the paper-
nobility, Kingsley has crawled up by fayort-
| ism to be Professor of History at Cambridoe.
and his only success there has been in makin1
| himself the laughing-stOck of historical schoi.
ars AT last the taunts at an English institu-
ton having such an ignorant man for a mo-
| lessor are beginning to come from the CONT
nent, and England cannot stand a continental
taunt. SO Kingsley's professional days are
likely to draw to dishonorable close very soon
Ne1coUc, IlISn6Sb university
authority in England, last night prepared the
way for his decapitation. After noticing the
continental ridicule of Professor KINGSLEY the
Z. M. u. deals with him in way worth QUOT
ing. 1t says: - ~ 'o'-
The fact is that Mr. Kingsley in his new canicitv 10
literally unable to utter single sentence without
showing his total and absolute nnftness for his Mace
HIS mind is the one typically uniudcial mind anong
modern Englishmen; and even If he had the critical
faculty, ne mas no store acknowledge whereon to ex
ercise II, nor when away from the trout stream and
the Devonshire beach, has he any sense of tbe
sacredness of an ascertained fact we wouId like In
know what his brother thought of his making Mr.
Eyre, the other night at SOUTHAMPTON walk 700 miles
round the Cult of CaTpentara instead of Il00 miles
round the South Australian Blight the real scene of
MI. Eyre's heroic achievement I? 1t is yery charae-
suc OF us that we should have fallen foul of the
th sssor not for his gross geographical blunder in
I'M, very teeth Of his brothers article in MAcMILAN
honaa nis ilealizng the House of Lords and doing
Ihou FROUDE.
en- nave We eeen very glad to see as a CLEAN across
A Ero,,Ja ". mat one man of genius, Mr. j.
"a :ooe, tne historian, who is connected NV
marriage with Kingsley. and Il an ;nt;matss
iriend OF carlyle and Ruskin whose raact;nn.
ism he has been supposed nv sar,a - ~,
shown signs of movement In the a,hS,si, mas
Frazer's Magazine, which he ed;ss u ., .
which did the most signal service Ia, ,ss si:.'
the late parliamentary struggle and it, c,,.. ~
number lSeptember) has some most telling en-
tlcisms ON the Eyre affair. He has undonSted-
y departed rom the re-actionists