Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-03-14

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The love-lettsrs Of eminent parsons, says q
, writer 10 London 9QctstH are piuerally let
ten written before they become ninent A
great author win not oonfne bis intellectual
efforts 20 the penny post when q publaher
will handsomely remunerAte him foS reveal
Jag then 70 The world: In the ease o. po ..,
large part Of their effufious might, without
much straining, be brought within the eate-
CORY Of love.letterH. Bat then other 'emi-
nences" mostly write their love-letters before
they achieve greatness or have greatness
forced upon them. This Il great consoia-
ton for the lawyer that can ge. no 5Iieis, une
politician who cannot get scat and the
Young writer who has bis articles rejected
They can take II out in their loye-letters.
The facetious writer continues am sorry
for any eminsnt man who has 70 engage In
ing 70 the old joke the lawyer might tie up
his letters with red tape, and the physician
may make middle In his prescription.
Love-letteru must take u out Of a man, and,
10 point OF fact, love-makine requires an
amount OF time and concentration Of purpose
that can be Iil-spared from professional pur-
suits. Emlneuce generally means effort, and
man In full work cannot afford time for
such iudibrid hnoe. They form the glorious
privilege OF leisure and Of youth.
The lawyers are people who, as a class,
seemed % have turned out very well in their
letters which Jack Scott wrote TO Mss Sur
tees, or which that famous jurlst, Judge
Buller, WROTE 10 the lassie whom he married
when he was only eighteen. When Charles
i Yorke, Afterwards Chancellor Hardwick,
asked q Worcester squire for the hand Of his
daughter, the old gentleman politely asked
him about his rent.roll. The young lawyer
replied that his estate consisted Of "a perch
OF ground In Westminster hail." Similarly,
when Charles Abbott aitorward Lord Chief
Justice Tenterden, was asked by q kentsh
squire about his estates, the young pleadeT
showed him bis books In ono room and hle
pupils In another. Both Lady Scott and
Lady Tsnterden were esteemed rather mar
srow Ia their housekeeping. After all, tho
best kind OF love letter IL that which q man
writos 10 his wife, and there IL at least one
very sweet love letter which Abbott wrote to
hi wife while on circuit with lot oil poetry
We have one excellent examples love
latter which Macaulay would probably &C.
cent a. an Historical document, written By
thnt noble character the irst Lord Cowper e
his sweetheart when young Templar. IL 4
10 statelier PHRASE Than the present. iaini IN
Ing N,your very humble and afectionate scr
yent.h He tells hor, 81 wish my thoughts
which arc 60 often With you When ! am not
were not invisible; then you might save your
self the trouble Of reading such Ike notes
and see ~ one view nov ahcontontou au'
yered they are when cannot walt on you
You would SEQ how forward and impat.en
they grow under any other business, aud In
sure, without further apology, would ereus'
me and forgive my absence for their YER
looks" This Il certainly very prettily en-
pressed by the young Templar. This IL th'
chancellor OF whom Yoltaire used absurd!
70 say that he defended and practiced polyg
amy. Cowper's letters 10 his vile, and th
iournAls he kent for her. show him to hav,
bosn most excellent husband. 30 far y
: we are acquainted with legal biography, u
must be said that marriage generally an
swcrs very well for the lawyers. They seen
90 become keenly alive 10 their responsiblll
y tles, and settle down steadily 70 their ousl
meas.
The men OF science do not appear, on thI
whole, TO haye been equally happy. W.
should like 10 have seen Comte's letters y
his Ulotilde, but AZ q rule, II 10 Ill for mar
Of science to fall In love with woman o
science.