, 1880-07-04
SOME NOTED BOHEMIANS.

MurSer and Alfred D:Orxay-Archbish.
op Paley's S1othfui Youth, aud John
Bunyan's EARLY Wickedne.s.
London Standard.
B0hemianlSm may be characterized as
moral disease revealing itself by certain
physical symptoms, such as idleness, a1ac1ity
to contract debts and reluctance to pay them,
unpunctuality, disregard OF the most solemn
pledges and promises, a preference for no.
madic instead OF sedentary ways, a cynical
Indifference, real or assumed, to the ordinary
customs and dconventionalities OF life, coupled
with q desire to partake, in season and out0f
season. of the enjoy1nents Of that life
without incurring Its responsibilities.
"Carpe diem" Is, In reality, the
motto. Of the true Bohemian; and
If, now and again, In u moment of repent
ance, or Of newly-formed good resolutions, he
takes up the burden which every good citizen
must bear, and "gfves hostages to fortune''
it is generally found that he is in a desperate
hurry to lay down his pack again, and that he
leaves his hostages, unrau50lEed, to take
care Of themselves. There is no absolute
need that the bohemian should be either a
prohig:lte or drunkard, or that his
coat should be shabby or his shirt
dirty. There have been Bohemians who
Throughout their lives 1;,o we're 80, clad III, II
were neither rakcs nor sots. Henri Murger,
| the Prince OF the the Parisian Pays le
Dohen,e," WAS q waterdrinker, and
scrupuously neat in bis dress and person.
Bohemian Of the grand type. He toiIet not,
neither did he spin. For fully twenty-five
| years Of his highly ornamental !ife lie never
| had any nuney OF Ills own, although he had,
US was said OF another grand Bohemian,
money. He was for years SO deeply in
! debt, and so har:.ssed BY, balifIs. that
it was only q 1n a:11s SUNDAYS that haa he s
tie glass Of fashion and the mold Of form,
and Solomon III all his glory was not arrayed
| more grauuly than WAS the penniiess Count
| Alfred dOrsay. Hohemianisn,, grand or
petty, may be broadly qualified then IS
psyehe1oEsa aaay ,er wc GHafeateh sss It Us Is
ordinarily incurable, or else acquired.-usu-
ally by contagioll,-under which latter cir
cniastances it may, by ,juiiclous treat
s s1s,at cS sS1fs aius cesar a w sxe in 'Vay saly
ynutA, the veriest Of Eohenlans; but
he was rescued from the steWs Of
i;o,:, II conquer tie worla: Paley, when
ulesrite at canG;!!dEe ~; s.D1s, WI an awn @H-
wardness excited the cruelest n,lrt'ratnons
lis fellow-studcnts, who dubbed him
"Tomlny Potts" During the first two years
OF his residence at the University he was
lult Uutl EAttAt tSAu=7 III I'LL AAIA@
noon. and frtaltHntint+ fairs, s1rolllng play.
ers, and puppet-shuHS; but ite WAS Totseu
from these sad habits by one of his gay coni-
paap1s, who c:snc 1o him one morning as
The scappgrnce lty in bth, anti pointett out
how much better his talents might be en-
uioyed. The reMo'lstranre tuok immediate
effect. Paiey entirely reformed: thence
forth TIC rose ut III the morning; next year
he came otlt senior wransler, and be lived to
! write the ''Evit!erceS Of Christianity" and
I to becniae Arcldeacon OF Carlisle. Prebenu
| Of st. p,,ul's, and SuG-Dean Ut London. john
Runyau, Ill Els adolescence, was rank b.
lielniatl. Southey speaks nf hlm q having
been q blackxuarl; another of his blog-
rupl1ers calls him the wicked tinker OF F.
l stow"; and he himself confts,ses TINT he
s:dance.l, ral1lg church bells, played tll-cat,
aud read Sir Bevis Ut Southampton, and
that his indulgence III profanity was
such that n woman uf low chAT2c-
1 Ter told him ''f1e was the unGOdliest
/ fellow for swearing she eyer heard IN
aIl her life, and that he made her tremble
to hear him." ltwouitl be idle to dwell on
/ the brilliancy Of Hunyan's conversion, 49, It
| was as signal Us that Of the illustrlotls Will
lam Wilberfurce, who began his career IN
somewhat Ut I Bohemian fashion BY g1M-
bling furiotsly ut fairs: but Mr.. Wilberforce
was Il gentleman Of Refinement, education.
and fortune. while the famous author OF
"The Pilgrims Progress" was in lll1ternte
alld poyprty-stricken enthusiast, ard, accord
ing to Mr. George Smith. Of Coatville, not
only a tinker, but gypsy to boot