New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-08

him once; once gradually felt to nave oeen
enough. for me. Poor Lamb s9cn ,JorId opivl
not now Of the admitted lsuch the hlnt AZ any
rate kept strictly away hem dnere IN w" %emar ETC.
who was first of the Gown Correspond;
ents" now numerous THIS Is now n bis Tsal
in metaphysics" {" dull and utterly dry" There
was Dr. Sir Anthony Garlic, of name IN medlcihei
native of Durham and hard,headed fellow, Dnt
to the as sho of rude
Gdge" We were clansmen, he and j, Duf
had nothing of mutual attraction nor f OF
shrewd sense in his way. l heard continual talh
and admiration of {" the grand old English writer's
Fuller Sir Thomas Browne, and various ota tiS
dox strain. But there was little con,
siderable of actual knowledge. and of critical
where; and in the end it did one next to no good,
vet perhaps not qnite none deductiDg IN accurate
balance all the i'll that might be IN 1t.
BARRY CORNWALL AND DE QUINCY.
Nobody pleased me so much in this miscellany as
Proctor Barry CornwalD WHO for the ialr Anne
Skeppel's sake was very constantly there Anne
and he were to have been, and were sui 10 De,
married, but some disaster or entanglement N
mariner defalcating or the like, and Proctor, IN
evident distress and dispritment, was waiting the
slow conclusion of this; which and the weddlngthere
upon happily took place in the winter following.
decidedly rather pretty little follow Proctor, DoGly
and spiritually; manners prepossessing, slightly
London-elegant,. not unpleasant; clear Judgment
in him. Though of narrow field a sound,
honorable morality aud airy frlenuly Ways
of slight, neat figure, vigorous for his SIZE;
fine genaly rugged little race me eaG Squeezing
at the outer ends into a cordially medtative anu
dropping expression; would break out suddenly
now and then, INTO opera attitqde hau soine'ni"s
Jemmy Becher was n smirking little dumpy
Unitarian bookseller in the BGll-rng, regarded as
kind of Curiosity and faV0rIte among these people,
and had seen me- One shOwery day TOOK Shelter
i'm his shop; picked up new magazine found IN IL
a cleversh and completely hostile criticism OF my
Wilhelm Melster," OF my Goethe ana SELL etc',
read II faithfully to the end, and have never set eye
ON il since. On stepping out OF my bau spirits ala
not feel much elevated by the dose just swallowed,
hut thought with myself, This man is perhaps
night on some points; if so. let him be admontOry!
Aud he was 81 ION ScOttlclsm, or perhaps twoE
and did reasonably soon I'm not above q coupe Oh
hours) dismiss him to the devil. or 10 jericho as an
iI-giyen unservccable kind OF entity IN my course
through this world. 1t was Do Quincy as L
often enough heard afterw1rd from to0iish-
talking persons "What matter who, we foolish
talking persons ~ would have been my silent
answer, az IL generally pretty much was. L recOl-
lrct too, how i'm Edinburgh year or TWO alter poor
De Quincy whom wished to know. was reported
to tremblc ~ the thought OF such tnnR, anu ulu
ny pale as ashes. poor little s0n the hrSt time we
actually met. He was pretty little creature, iull
of wire-drnwn Ingenuitirs bankrupt enthusasms
bankrupt PRIDE with the finest silNer-t0ned low
voice AMI most elaborate gen!ly-wlndlng courtesles
audingcpultrS m cOnNcT@atlOn. w nat Nouilti
Give 10 have him in box and take him out tOtalk|
That was Her cricism of him, and II was rlght gO0
A bright ready and melodion' taIkGI' PAT IN tho
end en- lnconclusYc and long-wnded. one oil the
smallest man figures ] ever saw shaped like PAIR
OF tongs and hardy above five feet IN all. When
he safe You would have taken hun; by canaleleht'
for the bcautifuest little child: b.uc-cyed, spark
ling face had there not been n something,
too which SAID "Ecc0ri-this child las been IN
hel' After leaving Edinburgh never saw
him. hardly ever heard Of him. His fate owing
10 Opium etc. was hard and sore, poor iiBe-strung
weak creature. launched so INTO the literary
career of ambition and mother OF dead dogs
LORD JEFFREY
In 1927 Carlyle carried a letter of introduction
from Barry Cornwall to the Editor OF The Edinburgh
R,rie.r. aud thus describes the interview:
q" shall see the famous man them" thought l,
and n ne can do nothing for me, why nOtF L
got ready admission into Jetlreys study, or rather
"oFice" for IL had mostly that ar; roomy not
over neat apartment on the ground iloOr, with olg
Undiscovered table, loaded with book rows ana
paper bundles. On one or perhaps two OF the walls
were bo1kshelvcs likewise well MED, ont
with hooks in taterv, ill-bound or unbound condl
tion bad new literature these Will be-" thoughb
/: " the table ones are probably on hand" rive
pair Of candles were cheeriulIy burning IN tne ngnS
Of which safe my famous little gentleman lald
aside his work, chceruly invited me 10 ST. anu pc
gan talking in perfectly human manner. Our dla;
for perhaps twenty. minutes TOR 1 could not
consume great mans time). turned upon the usual
TOPICS: oS what lrm %n' Romaance n ransaton s
nv last thing; to which | remember he said
kindly I'VE must give You hit" an O1er when IN
some complimentary way managed TO his salts
faction 10 decline. Ny feeling with him was that
of reimbursement; n reasonable veIacious little
man could perceive with whom any truth one felt
good to utter would have tar chance. Whsther
much was said of German literature, whether any
thing Mt all on my writing Of II for him. don't recol-
lect but certainly took my leave in gTathed
successful kind Of mood and both those topics, the
latter i'm practical form, did soon abnndantly spring
M between us, with formal return call by him (which
gave new speed to imii1macy sgeeineh 6o iGf
follow out of an acquan tanceshlp well begun. Inc
moor paper of Jean Paul, study piece, not without
humor aud substance OF my own, nPpgPSSG ~ SUP sup
made what they call sensation among the Edln-
burgh buckrans; which was greatly heightened next
number by the more elaborate and grave
articIe on German Literature" generally, which
set many tongues wagging, and some few brains
considering, what this strange monster conld ne
that was come to disturb their qulescenee and the
cSIcdrsv;s Notwithstanding seemed, and was
for tho time an immense acquisition 10 me-
and everybody regarded 1t rs my highest
GOOD fortune, though in tho end
n did not practically amount to much. Meantime 1t
vas vary pleasant and made us feel as II no longer
cut oil and isolated, but fairly admitted, or like to
he admitted, aud taken IN tow by the world ana us
actualitIes | found HIM infinitely witty, Ingenious
sharp of fence, but not IN any sense deep ana USED
Sxithont diGicnlty to hold my own with Inn.
nlensant enough exercise but ut last not very
profitable one
Mr. Froude has grouped some detached notes oil
pcrsona recollectons in an appendix. They relate
principally to Southey and Wordsworth by way
of introduction he saws:
Many literary aud one or two political ana other .
,,Iac nnbc persOns, more or less superior TO the
Wis run of men have met with in my life;
Tut perhaps none of them really great or worth
more than a transient remembrance loud as the
III ahont them once may have been; and certainly
nome of them. what is more to the purpose, ever
vitality interesting 80 or that # ao for want want
sonethInV else to occupy me better,
vmorl, down something of what recolect concern;
ING some of them, who seemed the greatest or stood
hss nearest to me- 1t surely ought TO be with ex-
tremc breyty with rapid succinctness Ut CAM Mt
ali events with austere candor., and avoidance oil
anvthing which can suspect to be untrue Perhaps
"nhodv hut myself will ever read thls-6nt that is
not InfaIIbly certain-and even III regard to myself,
%e one possible profit Of such thing IS that 1t he