New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-26

of his writing you may pe suIo ~, W Inv ,n;nIa ~
hut truth there" We compared his prlncipIe VI
governing 10 DR. Franca's IN Paraguay. giving inc
people a despotism TO deliver them from 'oreyi
" Why. FIancia was very smail man ooi hn had
with oliver; his idea was not % hlgh one nc niu
an IGNORANT uncutiv ated set of people To put rig
aud ms certainly did it very ceverly with an ms
mechanical regulations; but lie was very u,neieuV
man 10 Diver Mrs. Carlyle here said, why, Il
short time ago Francia all in favor ana so nc
would he again if you had bnt little con.ra'iim
tionw Then speaking OF the wieocn nen,ng their
t;rrotest he said Why, the Jews took Jesus LOT
scoundrcl. and thought all they could DO WIN lin
was nail Him up on gailows, An ~ Io"Ton
bad business; and He has returned 10 iiea'eh,
and they co wandering about the streets buying old
clothes"
Something led rs to John Mill "Ah, poor
fellow he has had TO get himself ont OF behth I'M
ism: and all the emotions and suiieflngs ne mas
endured have helped him to thoughts that never
entered Benthams head. However. he ~ stll , ,
fond of demonstrating everything. II John nn,l
were TO get up TO heaven he would naruly 10 ou,
tent till he had made out now II III vas sbont the
machinery of the place; whether there Is an opGiia
tive set Of angels an industrial class IN Willie
to leave all that. Neither do | ever quake on my
bed like Wordsworth, trying to reconcile the WAYS
of Pro whence to my apprehension. early CAME 70
the conclusion that was not very likely 10 nah HAN,
II ont clearly the notions OF the CalVlnlSts sc.n
what Won cannot escape from. namely, that u Tue
all known beforehand, why IL all must inapP1In::
This does not affect your actual WORK at AL, anu
have ialtD UlaU III ~ All Juot Z
WON'T harm Won TO shape any notions about IL.
don't see that we do any good by pnzZing our poor
weak heads about such things while there Is plehS
of clear work before the n III the regions ol PIuc-
ticahiIItv I'm the meantime | know that nave
uncontrolled power over one unit III crealloi' anu
it's my business in life to go er tbiV one as Wei %
rossiLle I'm not overload of BollngbroNes
notrnnizino Providence nor of VOtaircs-' If there
we're no God we should be forced to invent one LOT
the completion OF the system.
Some curious opinions. both OF Cariylos ana Oh
Mills about American life and character might he
onoted. but perhaps the world has had enough of
these judgments for the present, and the Judges
themselves might he inclined to revise them if they
had the opportunity. 1t Is much pIeasanier 10
dwell mon such genial pages of the diary as those
in which Miss Fox describes her first acquaintance
with Hartley Colerdge At the age OF eighteen she
had been commended to Hartley at Gfasmere III
letter Of introduction: And we were sitting
after Tea i'm the twilight little being was observed
at the door. standing hat III hand bowing to the
earth round and round and round again. with eyes
intensely twinkling-it was Hartley ColcIldge; SD
lie sat down, and what with nervous tremorS ana
other inirmties amongst us, nothing very remark
able was elected" But the next day there was a
clorious morning with Hartley ColerldGe, VINO
gradually unfoldcd on many things III tone well
worthy Of poets son. In person ana dress nc was
much brushed IN; his vivid face sparkled in the
shadow of n large straw hat He drove with us
TO Ambcsde | gave HIM Ella to read; and he
read Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
with tone and emphasis and Intense apprccla ION
which Lamb would have loved to mark. AT dinner
he had a sad choking fit, so queery conducted as to
try our proprety sadly. Then when he had any
thing especially pointed to say he would stand up,
or even walk round the dining table" Still better
is this story of Derw ent Coleridge: Amusing de-
tails from Cowley Powes of Southey's visit at
ialston. He had been delighting them ALL rather
with his wit than anything poetcal in his CONVEX
sation lie is very tall about siXty-ivc years old,
and likes mealy potatoes. . . The other day he
took book from one of the shelves, when Der
went Coleridge who must have been in n deli
ciously dreamy state, murmured alphabetically, |
got that book cheap-it is ono OF Southeys. 10
was quietly replaced by the poet; Mary Colerldge
exclaimed. 'Derwentp and all enjoyed tho joke ex-
cept the immediate sufferers"
The reports of the conversations of Wordsworth
are exceedingly careful and vivid-pcrhaDs even
more remarkable than the memoranda of Miss Fox's
friendly interviews with Carlyle. OF Hartley Cole
ridge Wordsworth said:
Hartley has no originality; whenever he at
tempts IT, II IL altogether mistake; he Is so lunu
of quaintncss and COntTaTety, which Is quite out Ul
keeping with rue poet; and then he is OF that
class of extreme Radicals who can never mention
without some atrabous prefix or other Surely
this is excessively naTow and excessively vain, to
put yourself in opposition to the opinions and IN
situations which have so long existed with such
acknowledged Der cit; there must be something IN
them to have attracted the sympathies of ages and
generations. | hold that the degree III which poets
dwell in sympathy with the past marks exactly
the degree of their pOetlca faculty. shelley, you
see, was Of these, and what dl1 his poetry
come TO y But said some would not 20 DC , True
yearnngs after the Ideal rather than The Actual
All but | object TO the perpetual l-humor with
things around them, he replied anu lll-humOr Is
no spiritual condition when can turn 10 poetry.
Shakespeare never detained AGAINST hlngs OF
Bishops but took the world as Inc found It,. Ho
spoke of ). L. Colerldge and acknowledged the
great genius OF his poetry. On, now ms
mechanical age does battle AGAINST the falh; 1t is
altogether calculated to pun mp the pride OF the
undcrSt andlng wnIle it contains no counlcracting
principle which regulate the feelings; the love
of the beautiful is lost in notions OF shallow utllty
aud men little think that the thoughts which are
embodied in form around them and on which the
peasants shoCn can tranple, are worth more than
all their steam-engines and railroads" But tins
cannot last there must he n reaction" SAID l.
"Nor he said a." 1T cannot last God Is nercIiul ana
loves His earth and il cannot last. | have raised
my voice loudly against it, paIticularly in the poem
on the treaty of Clnira; and others have taken up
the sound and under many forms have given the
world to know that there are thoughts III man by
which he holds communion with his God, of lar
higher moment than any outward act or clrcum-
lie took us to his terrace, whence the view is de-
lcious; he said, Without these autumn tints It
would be beautiful but with them II Is exquisite"
1t had been wet morning, but the landscape was
then coming out with perfect clearness. II rs lie
said like the human heart emerging from sorrow.
shone on by the grace of God" We wondered
whether the scenery had any effect on the minds of
the poorer people. He thinks 1t has, though they
don't learn to express it i'll neat phrases but IT
dwells silently within them. " How constantly
mountains are mentioned in Scripture rs the scene
of extraordinary events the Law gwen on a
mountain, and on mountain the great act OF our
Redemption was accomplished, and | cannot believe
bur Il at when the poor read Of these things in their
Bibles and the frequent mention Of mountains in
the Psalms, their minds glow at the thought Of
their own mountains and they realize it all more
clearly than Others"
There was much other serious discourse with the
poet as well as tea and gingerbread with Mrs.
Wordsworth, and an interesting chapter closes with