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

BtuDiQef man budH luo RlOhv
speech, in conduct In regard TO this poor "sartor
question, imagined had seldom or never scent
GETTING on IN SOCIETY.
By this time we were getting noticed by select In
diyiduals Of the aristocracy and were wna It's ~
way my Jane never had but she took II always asa
something of honor done to me. and had her various
bits of satisfaction in 1t. 10 me can recolecU eA
cept what of snob ambition there might be IN me,
which hope was not very much though tor certain
it was not quito wanting elther!l 'he iS
vas nothing Of charm IN any OF them; av TH
sion, as kind of hungry orna iSs
witch" looking over at with merely earnlvorouS
views land always questioning ner ~ sfter husband
Allen etc, all dead that discovered retnas 81 ~
beauty in her. pathetic situation aud S
oualities remember at first sight OF the nrst EuS
Ashburton (who was far from regularly Deautiiiiu,
but was probably the chief of all these great s
she said Of her to b me- trne reading and in
a-case not plain at all, but offener mistaken 'han
Bnt to her MRS Carlyle the charm of such circles
was Mt ali times insignificant; human was wnat she
looked ar and what sac was ID all circles. One
evening at Bath House. saw her IN grand soiree,
softly step up and qpnGtcegg W Ss Ins shout
Der That perhaps was one of the prettiest things
ever saw there. Duke was then very old, anu
70 some Fwow-wow,D which perhaps had niue
meaning in it; he had on his Garter ordeI ms gqlu
buckle stock, and was xery eie Stan e1enng mar
eXCeDG
ties half an hour in each, perhaps haruiy kne"
what he was delng'
HIS wIFE's LETTERS.
The whole of yesterday spent in reading and ar
ranging the letters OF 1907 suG f = S"S Vbat
as perhaps never had i'll my life before. Nhst
piercing radiancy of meaning to me IN those aeaf
records hastily thrown OF, full or misery yeG ol
bright eternal love all as If on wings oil ughtmng
tinsiing through ones very heart of hearts On,
was blind not to see how 0rlttie WAS thaI thIcau
of noble celestial almost more thah terresii
tGian ,,a NE; and 10" how impossible 1t should
long be left with me- have ASKED myself, oHRn s
all thus to be lost kept for myself ann tne Drel
time that now belongs to met Can morning. Oh IL NC
saved then for the worthy that still remain among
these roaring myrads of profane unworthy i
really must consider 1t laItaef anu e Swbether
Mt least this poor note-DOoh VighV " ~
burnt ere my decease, or Iet 70 "to,ontS S
en,stoary and other these letters perceive, equal
and snrpsss whatever OF best know to exist IN thar
kind for TALENT" genius or whatever we my
call IT, what an evidence, II my little woman needed
that to mel Not all the Sands ana EllOts ana paO-
bling coiue of " celebrated scrbbllng women that
have strutted over the world, in my time, could ~
seems 20 me, If all boiled down anu u's'iilcu ~
essence, make one such woman
MEMOIR OF EDWARD IRYIiG
CARLYLE and Edward Irving were friends from
youth I'D. and it is pleasant feature OF bis recollcc-
tions of his friend that they mainly to remind
b, of diyerting passages in his own life. OF their
comradcship in Edinburgh he says:
Irving'5 library was Of great use to me; Gl6bon,
Hume etc. | think l must have read ~ almost
through. lnconceivable 10 me now TiIh " lsC ar
dor with what greedy velocity, literally above ten
times the speed eau now make MIN .a any po to
rate nf a volume day twelve volumes
in am; and | have still far recollection oil u;
though seldom looking into It since. III was OF al
the books perhaps the most Impressive on me IN my
then age of investigation and state OF mind by
no means completely admired GIbbon, perhaps
no more than now do; but his winged
sarcasms, 80 quiet and yet SO cOncluslyely
Transporting and killing dead, were often
admirable potent and ilumlnatlVe to- me.
I was tlmorOusN aiming toward " literature " TOO;
tbonght i'm audaciOus moments might perhaps earn
some trifle that way by honest labor 10 hslp my
finance; but in that, too was painfully sceptlcal
talent and opportunity alike doubtful alike III
credible TO me, poor dOwntrodden SOUL and In
fact there little enough OF produce or lnance
to me from that source anu lot the ust years aDs-
lutey none, IN spite OF my dlliRent ana desperate
efforts which are sad to me to think OF even now.
Irving was engaged to Miss Martin, whom Car
lyle describes as a "pock-marked ill-shapen TRAN
qular kind Of face with hollow checks and long chm
In spite of all which having perhaps the arena
much to HERSELF she had managed to charm poor
Irving for the time being. and IL was
understood they were engaged, which uHfortr-
natelv proyed TO be the fact" Carlyle, who was
himself a schOolmaSter at that time' had an "x-
perience bordering on Irritation:
nome
these were at intervals fine little element, but IN
general we we're but onlOokers 1.-THE one real society
our books aud our few selves. NOT even WIN the
bright young ladies" (which was SAD teatnrel
were we on speaking terms. By lar the
cleycrest and brightest, however an eK-puph OF
Irvings and Renealogically and 9'herwise lDeing
Mace did at last make some acquaintance with
lat Irving's first. think though she rarely came
thitherl some acquaintance, and IL might easily
have bren more, had she and her aunt aud our
Economics and other circumstance liked. She
was of tho fair-compcxioned, softly elegant,
softly grave. witty and comely type. aud
had good deal of gracefuIness, IN
telIgence. and other talent; irving 100,
it was sometimes thought, found her very interest
ing conld the Miss Martin bonds have allowed,
which the, never would. To me who had only known
her for a few months, and who within twelve or
fifteen months saw the last OF her she continued
for perhaps some three years figure hanging more
or less INV fancy the usual romantic or latterly
quite e n and silent terms, and to this day there
is I'm me o.. will to her, candid and gentle pity
for her, II cCG ID at all.
IRVING ~ LONDON.
Irving was called to London after his success in
Glasgow, but Carlyle thought the gifted preacher
had won a worldly victory at the expense of his
spiritual nature But lie really envicd Irvng's
luck when Oh ono Of their walks IN lsng-
ton they met a company OF pretty girls:
At sight of us they suddenly stopped all looking
round aud of the prettiest, dainty little thing,
stepped radiantly out to living. oh! oh! Mr..
JTyInp!D and blushng aud smiling offered her pretty
lips to be kissed, which Irving calamity stopped
down TO ACCEPT as well worth while. WhereupOn.
after some bencdiction or pastoral words we went
on our way Probably | rallied him on such Opu-
lence of luc provided for man. to which be could
answer properly as a spiritual shepherd, not a secu-
lar.
A VISIT TO coLERDGE.
Visits were paid occasionally TO Basil Montagu,
who. Carlyle says, was much bore to you by de-
erees and considerably a humbuG il you probed too
strictly" His wife was q sociabe creature, how
ever:
On one OF the first fine mornings, Mrs.
see Colerldgc at Highpatc. My impressions OF the
man and Of the place arc conveyed faithfully
enough in the Life of Sterling; that first in
teryiew in particular, of which had expected
very little, was idle and unsatisfactory, and yielded
Enlaridrn q nnfiV oh.