, 1873-05-18
NAMES AND THEIR INFLUENCE.

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some admirable reWarks on the moral responsf
| bilities Of parents for tho names they give tt
their children. Sir Petar ohi1linclv ia varv hari
m f;s own mama md .ecr;1,o, f,;s ,aa;o.,;t.. -
great measure to it. "Peter, he eays, to tht
assembled family council, .has been for man,
~panorstions Al vou ara aware tha hant;a,no, -
wb;ch +ba .ido.t ho,z, ~ r,,,- fo.o,,,r h.e
VA oAoeo' Do1u ~ ou1 .stl1's naa oeel oe
Voseu. on tne aitaf OF fhat name have beer
sacrificed. Never has there been q Sir Pete]
| Chillinely who has in any wav distinguished
| b;mee,f shove hi. fo71opa Tha n.n,a h.o 1ao., .
zo.1 ..s;~S. ~ s.T,-, n94u. t1'7 poen
catalogue Of ilustrious Englishmon thore is,
! think. no immortal Sir Peter, except Sir Pete,
Teazle. and he on1v exists nm thu comic ataoa y
and Cir po4ar rh;,,;.;c1v ,r;ob+ h.,a oaaoa a.
G. - ~ Ins lave ,udeu 'i91
ment he affords to others, not for any intrinsic
| eapacity. One of the family connc;} howaver
sureests :. Sir PETER r,a1v ); m vbicb sir pate,
".':3: Sus6ooss ~. 90 10'5, W WIFI on 1eI<1
Ch1llngly replies with unansTerable forco
| Is That painter was not an Englishman. He was
| hor, i, westnb.1i~ farcona ror homa T co,f,o
nv -,,nar,r T., ,ha ch;1dra,, - ~ - a.;x. ,s,a
n5 .' 49, ~ VIZ saa.uen " o.1 uA4l'o =, 4Auu.
not an e5ungn1sner TO the genius OF lts owner.
6us WY n other countries Its sound ls mooi-
nea- lle1Ee CorneA4e Has great man Dnt l.
pat Il 70 you wnather, had us been an English
tragedy Is Peter Crow" And Sir Peter might
ha3e aodeq that Peter the apostle got his weight
1fom MS Hebrew name, Cephas. Caphas gives
the impression OF rock Peter the impression
Of commonplace 1espectability, with wavering
turn. Nov, Lord Lytton, in touching this sub
1ect, touches one OF the most real grievances
which chlIdren have against rash parents, and
ne touches both s1des OF it. He not only
deprecates the names which stamp child with
medioclity, but ne deprecates those which stamp
blt1on. crusty cousin had suggested that Sir
Peters child should be called Hannibal or
ChaI!emagne, IN order to give him adYentitious
grandeur, on which slr- Peter replies, with
you infiict On man the burden Of one Of these
names, the glory OF which he cannot reasonably
expect to eclipse Or even equal, you crush him
beneath the weight II: poet were called John
Milton, OF William Shakespeare, he would not
dare to publish evon sonnet. No, the cholco Of
name LES between the two extremes OF iudlc.
rous lnslgniflcance and oppressive 7enown."
This ls very lust, and should pr1ng romo!se to
Many @ - mere ,a = no ho more inae
ab1o mlschle1 zone TO c4aid tna1 either q
grandloso or mean ne name; The moral influence
- nn.ao7 usaa nuss w. noweser 20 oepeno
~ 'e.y eaeas ussIee u so41e"nae aIpltlary
n. a,.u snn{eesite ;.leucos. @ 1e 4aYe n9aro =
the. utmoa nathos assn asaertne % tbat It ,.d "ta "
ee1aia eAtGas ~ iIao " LIZ very 1ou
hsan p atnaent ~ an ot ns Gonlse 1 naa
oeen . stuueus VI InackeIay, ana. Ine sub
1echVe Influences which worked upon bis mind
we're Of the .Jesmes de ID; rluche order.
Eoat+ aaa ne instead 4. been stepped IN M ST Walter
c1iyalric associations with the knight Of Snow
don,-.'. And Normans called me James Fitz-
James ,"-he might have regarded his name rs
injurious to him, il at all only through it's too
unreal romantic associations. But who could
have tdealzed the nickname Jim7 That is. il
not SO tiunkeyish rs James, much more irredeen-
ably descriptive Of = aoui at the beck aud call Of
society. It Is to James, !" even under its worst
aspects, exactly What the footboy is to the
nnnke1,Ieaad 1 implies mt respect OF ave to the
owner OF such name 1e smply Impossible. ANY
one VINO pad . taste LOT slppng good-naturedly
through the world, ana fol beng famlliarly treat
go py eyel5oGay @ ne mer, mtehs not Object to DO
~ Called I'm. T. l. IL an honest SGT OF name. and
passport, as u we're 70 hndly treatment. Bqt
-, phss net eniss anu pp"er oeyono @ 1ne reaen
f ~ ane moss a sansone & nope. "A man sen y efany
r,;oht ~ a,uue 1a a heaa %
~ ~ oo Wy H. anu " .Hse g.eat nuenee
taka m nv 1na;ton roonirna ohsarvsnca ne .na