New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-27


I've read his novels. am anxious TO hear him."
well. If you want to 60 very bad Miss" replies Bod
gers, who Is nothing II not sympathetic. think can
get You in. know tho yerger very well. Him and mo
used 10 be together at the Harchbshop OF S First
he lady's footnan then butler and then he got 10
be steward and when the other verger died the Harch
bishop put him In. and snug place IL s Miss Three
hundred pounds year for life house adjoining and
all he has TO do is hOpen the and carry papers 10
the Lord Chamberlain" assure Dodgers that WISH 10
go Every bad" OF do when obstacles prevent
Then think Miss, If give you card you won't
have any trouble"
So Dodgers takes one of my cards. writes few lines
signs his name, and go way rejoicing u one can
rejoice when there is fog above, mud beneath, and
settled and consequently highly respectable gloom every
where. l rejoice because / am going TO the Chapel
Royal in thoroughly democratic manner. l am In
dOrsed by Dodgers If lived 1000 years in republic
could not obtain such recommendation. 1t delights
me to know that there ways OF getting the better OF
red tape. Down Piccadily go to St. James-st, down
St. James-st. to st. James Palace, where Charles H.
and George " were born, and where Charles /. took
leave of his children the day before his Execution is
well to remember in these days that England did behead
a king. Through archway pass into courtyard
where see a knot of men and women around very
commonplace door, which guard tells me is
the door l seek. I knock; benevolentlooking
old in q long black gown appears, reads
desires everybody else camerng for an entrance to
stay out "You haven't tickets" persists the black
gown. Neither have l. but am not introduced by
Dodgers and brotheri And TO such verger That
such tall, imposing person should ever have been
footnan! know he must have been gorgeous foot
man know by instinct that he his promotion to
his calves. know they real know that were 1t
not for the long black gown, should melt into an
ecstasy worthy of Fanny Squeers and exclam, al
saw such legs in the whole course Of my life -
The vcrger reads pockets the card looks at me, and
says, This is of the partickerercst days
the whole year but If you'll sit down and wait till all
the tickets is in, I'll give you seat If there is any"
sit down among choir boys, whO in black stockings red
and gilt coats red kneebreeches and white gowns, arc
preparing themselves for the services by making dolls
and rabbits OF their by means immaculate pocket
handkerchiefs and chatting the noble lords and ladies
they enter the chapel One peeress has an ABSURD
wadde. and the choir boys burst into an i'm
moderate fit of laughter hut they all stand and bow
somebody passes who does not take the least notice
Of them. "Who was that chap3" asks one boy OF the
other, and when hear the name ask myself whether
the rising generation possesses that reverence for rank
about which the papers tell much. That young
cads peer" whispers of the youths to his neighbor
II say amt he peer r. appealing to the verger who rubs
his hands with intense satisfaction The majority Of the
women homely and badly dressed the men are in
way conspicuous and when Gladstone, man Of the
peopeappears he brings with him little of the bracng
air of intellect.
The clock strikes 70 clergy and choir take their seats
the organ peals forth, and ushered into vacant
pew, adjoining that of the Prime Minister 1t is so like
the opera that gaze at the audience to whether
they MT brought their opera glasses for look you,
although can see church by daylight" 1t is very
difficult to realize that this is chapel Imagine long,
hall, with the entrance at end and the chan
cell with stained glass window above IT, at the other
aisle down the middle just wide enough for two persons
III. atAn
raised above the other and looking for all the world
like the open at the NewYork Academy of Music
Up stairs opposite the chance is the royal boxI mean
pew and on the sides several other stage boxes-I
mean pews The chancel, being adorned with table
which two great candesticks several gold dishes on
end with two great tankards above resembles the side
board Of old German baron To the left of the chan
eel is the pulpit and when officiating clergyman in
tones the service In mellow baritone, and the choir
boys chant Amen' when another officiating clergyman
continues the service in mild tenor and the audience
sings "Amen;' when the baritone executes forid
in the Organoft, remember but the floor
and arrayed in clerical robesand the clergyman stand
ing In the chance beats time with his fingers and noble
ladies nod their heads In unisonwhen the baritone con-
cudes and the gentlemen tenors opposite smile the
solost approvngly as much as to say, "You did that
well, old fellow" 1t does seem to me that am at show.
This feeling is increased when, the delivery Of the
prayer the recovery of Albert Edward, everybody
turns the leaf of the folio upon which the prayer has
been printed and the rustic reminds of books at the
opera.
But now Charles Kingsley, the man who has written
such charming books ascends the pulpit and listen,
pecting to hear manly words from who has done
much for muscular Christianity sharp featured,
iron gray headed man. with hard lines about the mouth,
and hear of the arshest of voices and worst OF
speakers but as neither responsible for features
nor voices await to be moved by the matter Of the
discourse. "And he bowed the heart of the men of
Judah the heart Of man." That Is the text for
Just such remarks apropos Of the Prince Of Wales as
would make leader in any of the daily papers. II the
reverend says man" once he repeats 1t six
or eight times Tho heart OF the nation is bowed
man. Loyalty contagious Does the canon mean that
It disease and business men have given way to it,
"No shame to them II they live by business" declares
Kingsley, which is very good Of him. "They may not
speak eloquently"-hOw can they being business menf
We In America know how incompatible are business
and eloquence But the canon is quite OF the
earnestness Of BUSINESS men, and he makes an
apt quotation from Shakespeare, quite fashionable OF
late about one touch OF nature making the whole world
kin the touch Of being, Of course the Prince OF
Wales. And the cause of all this emotion Is loyalty,
pure and smple-one OF those old hereditary instincts
by which the histories Of whole nations, whole races
are guided attachment to some royal ratewhom the
peope conceive to be them by GOd an attach
ment transmitted by their forefathers and which they
must transmit 10 their children national inheritance
Their Sovereign to them the diyneyappOinted SYM
Dol Of the unity OF their country. royalty Ia indeed
Gods ordinance ana king they must have, not merely
for the sake Of the nations security and peace, Out FOR
The sake Of their ocn Selrepect free man never felt
himself so free as when obeyng those whom the laws Of
his country had set him." from which statement we
see what idiots Puritan fathers were to leave En-
gland and how base have been the careers OF Garrison
John Brown, and others Of their Tx. IAN able man
never felt himself able as when he was following the
> dada than
and so say all of u.s. only don't happen to see the con-
nection between kings and ability.