The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-15
The Late bean Milman.
LAST DAYS.


The London Telegraph says:-"With the death
of Dean Mllman, II familiar and welcome pre-
sence has passed away from the society of Lon
don. 1t was not only his personal repute, his
charm OF manner, his kindness Of nature, his
rich fund OF anecdole and reminscence, and his
varied emo Wedge thai endeared hun to all who
mad the pleasure OF bis acquaintance; bat of
later years there also hung about him sort OF
reflected glory. Past Master as he was in the
craft OF letters, he had seen the rise and decline
OF dozen literary schools. He mad been the
companion, acquaintance, friend, and fellow
worker of welnigh every author during seye.
raj generation. tie had taken the town by
storm with FdztO, III the days when Mss
O'Neil was in the fuIness of her repute; he had
lived To see the herolHes part played by Ristori
at the height of her prestige; he had been known
and honored an author when Walter Scott,
Byron, Shelley, and Keats were the heroes of
the day; he had formed part of the society of
which Sydney Smith, SOuthey, jeffrey,
Brougham, Macaulay, and LoCkhart were the
ornaments; he had been ass oclated with Thack-
cray, bulwer, Tennyson, Dickens, and every
man of The brotherhood who formed the elder
generation OF recent writers; aud Jew authors of
any mark were so young that they had not been
hoGored by the notice Of the kindly patriarch
whose loge of letters, aud of all VINO studled
them, endured 10 the very last.
'As his years advanced the Dean was iond OF
saying, half in jest and nalt i'll earnest, that he
had found out the best way to ans ger crt-
Cism--it was to oulIye the critic; aud it may
fairy be admitted thai part Of his latter celebrity
was due to the iacC that he had ou lived
50 many authors OF his own day. But in his
tine Milman did yeoman's service to the cause
o! letters. AS poet, mis- repute has long been
assigned 10 the second, ifnot the third, order of
merit. 'Sans2m' and 'Belshazzar' are known NJ
longer on the shelves Of circulating Libraries.
And yet to men weary OF the slipsnop rhythm,
contorted melody, aud oyerstralned sentlmen-
talsm which characterize much or our
later poetry, there is something invgorattng in
the well poised, full-m assured lines of The Fall
OF Jerusalem; the verses are so good, that the
readers only wonder Is why they have not the
unmstakable ring OF genuine song. They are
not poetry, perhaps; out they are curlOusly like
poetry
writer in the Pan Mall Gazette says:-
There was a charm ABOUT his society Whlcn 1t
is difficult to anaIyze or describe. There was
something very venerable in his age, and his
wonderful store of kuoWledee on all subjects;
but This was relieved in the most dellghtlui
manner by the ire, the eagerness, the universal
interest in whatever was going on, welch gave
a character to his conversation, and these
characteristics again were blended in very
touching way with the most adecuonate gentle
ness and beauty OF demeapor. IL Is hardly
fancy to say that Dean Milman was sort OF
incarnation Of the best and happiest aspects Of
thesChurch to which he belonged; OF the manly
sense ard freedom which, especially in the last
century, inspired so many great writer's; OF the
social brilhaucy and knowledge OF the world
which ought to distinguish body so closely
connected with public life, and of the personal
goodness, tenderness, and charity we all IKE 10
clergyman. If we had more men like him, we
should not hear so much OF the dangers OF the
Church. But he IS gone, and the circumstances
under which such men were bred up TO susta Il
the dignities of the Church are changed, and
| will not, we fear, be restored"
| The London Times remaIks:-"Dean Mllnan
throughout lite wa supporter OF LIBERAL
| opinions, both in religion and politics, though
| into the sphere OF political action he did not
ollen care to lntrude. 1t is, however, to oe
remembered and recorded III his favor that in
1900 ne incurred cou-lderable obloquy in cleri-
cal circles by advoc tjing relaxation IN the
terms, o SUBSCRIPTION 70 the rhirtynine Articles.
WIN Dean Mlman-scholar, poet, historian,
and divine In oDe-h passed away one of the
last links which joined the scholarship of the
eighteenth century with that otthe present II
seems passing strange that we should only no y
be recording the decetse of a scholar who as a
young man. sat at the feet of EImsley and was
encouraged by him rs an undergraduate OF
Brasenose, in the cultivation OF That true poetic
taste which afterwards ripened into such excel
| lent fruitn