New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-12

coming and in getting competent judges to take him for
what be would like TO seem TO be- inc pi'c"oi A'0f
gong 70 the well till it Is at last broken
This rebuff appears TO have driven Muller INTO q
frenzy of wrath, if we may judge from the tone oil
his reply in later number of the same Jena paper
Having nothing really TO say in defense OF himself
he quits the ground of scientific controversy fulo
getler and descends to the most bitterly personal
invectIve B0htlingk, though he many years ago
left ST. Petersburg on account of his health, ana Is
living the quiet life Of German professor III the III
te university town of jena still holds the hlgh RANK
TO which he rose in the Russian serYlce-a RANK
which entities him to be addressed at court as lis
Excelency" Miller accordingly entities his reply
Contributions TO the Characterization of Ills En-
cellency the Imperial Russian Actual state Counsel
lor Dr. Otto Won B0htllngk, ete., etc." and speaks
Of his adversary throughout as - Ills EXceuehey'
using the phrase near 60 times-three tunes III one
instance in a single line. He throws out from the
70 time such taunts as unworthy of Actual state
COUNSELLOR" so long as scientific inquiry Is moi lor
hidden by Russian uLase :" Your Excelency, it is
not given to every one to be as witty as an lpeia'
Russian Actual state Counsellor" AS B0htlingk pre-
pared, some thirty years ago, valuable work on
the language Of the Yakoots he is here accused of
"a truly Yakootish ralretG" The concluding para
graph is worth translating in full. 1t runs thus:
His Excellency closes with OF his wttes remarks
with proverb The pitcher that rOes too often 20 TIE
well is broken at last" What now, is man rs Wlfss
as am 10 answer to this TIE remark Is ouue mat
ii il did not come from his EXcnlencys mouth, one
would be tempted call IL ." trivial" 90 not kno"
how many years His EXoelency has been gong !" the
we'll hut hope that he viii not break ior oils t'iS
vet too have gone the well now for more than %
years ana in spite Of its collision with the ussdh pot
my own pitcher to SIN quite sound ana water
tight could but think of something more 10 say III
answer that beautiful prONerD, ana 70 lis lAct
lencv's witty remarks about being ana seeming
The proyerb about the ice which one breaks ~ Is
hardly witty enough. Might perhaps offer instead on
my part also, very courteous request To HIS fAcc
lencvl | have not the honor OF His EXccNcnc3 per
soBal acquaintance, and accordingly do not knoW "h1t
lie is or what seems; and also always follow III nc
the old Uriuciplc, Qs9UiS pTesUDi bonus dOncc i'Oct
about Ills EXccleucy have heard from his friends at
The University of Bonn that young man lac was
very musical. Might beg him. when he Is tempt'u &c
write another characterization, do II IN new ana
more attractive CharaCterlc Us IN the character il
costume MignOu, and TO sing as accompaniment 10
the pretty song
LET seem, until be;
Why strip the wlnted robe from mel
There is no mstaking the tone of all this, and even
Miller himself v Id hardly venture this time to
assert, or hope to carry his English worshpers with
HIM if he asserted, Though L am sorry for what
Prof B0htlingk has DONE am not angry with HIM."
B0htlingks own rebuke doubtless more severe
than is often admissible but it was an outburst OF
hearty indignation, provoked and justified by the
circumstances that called it forth. His adversarys
reply is-what the extract have given shows IT TO