The Jewish advance. (Chicago, Ill.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-19
NO. 1877.

Of Lords, imposing particularly if we
take part In it."
Lord Exchamberlain thought the
nation going on wrong, and he made a
speech full of currency and constitution.
Baron Deprivyseal seconded him with
great effect, brief but bitter, satirical
and sore. The Earl of Quarterday
answered these, full of confidence in the
nasion and himself. When the debate
was getting heavy, Lord Snap jumped
up to give them something light. The
Lords do not encourage wit, and so are
obliged to put up with pertness. But
Niscount Memoir was very statesman
like, and spouted a sort of universal
history. Then there was Lord Ego, who
vindicated his character when nobody
knew he had one, and explained his
motives because his auditors could not
understand his acts.+
Or the comparison of the Tories who
supported Peel in his detection to the
converted Saxons by Charlemagne;
".... When the Emperor appeared,
instead Of conquering, he converted
them. How were they converted? In
battalions--the old chronicler informs
us they were converted in battalions,
and baptized in platOons. 1t was utterly
impossible to bring these individuals
from state of reprobation to one of
grace with a celebrity sufficiently quick" Z
And, last, though decidedly not least,
the dictum of Mendez Pinto:
English is an expressive language,
but not difficult to master. lts range is
limited; it consists as far as | can OBJ
serve, of four words, nice, jolly, charm
ing, and bore, and some grammarians
add fond
And now we have done. Whatever
the Emergencies of opinion on the liter
ary merit of Lord Beaconsfeld-and
this rests with the best critic, posterity
it is at least unquestionable that in
wit md humor be never fags There
are those who have called nm dull but
tbey are dulIards The B@otians could
hardly have proved far lUdges Of
SUI oar obj 5ot IN tills 7eficie has bean@
:. .1iad- lJc q much higher honor .Jc
ord Beaconstield than any sucn mere
o.everness. We have endeavored to
prove that not only does he sparkle
with epigram and blaze with repartee"
of unusual brilliance, but that his
humor, necessarily hampered as it was
by his surroundings and his aims, can
boast keen insight and original manipu-
lation; that the bizarre and the frivolous
is the mere froth on its surface, unessen-
tial and evanescent, and that as wit
and humorist he is now, by the prero-
gative death, classical. Nor is the least
enduring of the wreaths heaped upon his
bier that he always, and in the best
manner, amused us while he instructed,
and instructed us while he amused.
His wit and his humor offer complete
rcfutation to the Shakespearean adage,
when the age is in, the wit is out, for
he preserved them as youthful as a
septuagenarian, and they, in requital,
shall preserve his memory ever vivid
and vigorous.
Alas! poor Yorick, where be your
gibes now, your gambols, your songs,
your flashes of merriment that were
wont to set the table in a roar?" may
exclaim one who discerns only in Lord
Beaconstield the court jester Ourrejoin-
der shall be that of truth and reverence: !:
He being dead yet speaketh."
1.-THE Young Duke"
sSpeech on the repeal of the Corn Laws,
May 49, 1916.