New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-11

between INSTRUMENTATION, mutual amusemens Anu
the reading of emotional works; studying no NV
tory not even ,critcally studying the ocIaped -,
and knowing no more of the world tnan suhcou W
condemn IL. they naturally and perfoIce. weso
driven into a very dangerous corner. ihls vas
invention. Their knowledge Was MAS i%Ag snre some
times even their past All precocv IS apt 70 taES s
this form The quick rpening mind, LOT IacI men
other matter feeds uPSn and
food; or pious tales, high-wrought n
on conversations as they ought 10 nave peoni o al
ncsided biographies. Truth of opinion, they mH
always been told, was incomparahly more imposI 70
tant than truth of fact. Henry Wiberforce nseu 70
relate the rather unguarded speech OF " Wincbes
fer It's remarkable that all the most sprlt.uaag
minded men l have known were IN their you'n "a
traordinary liars" -,
But Mr.. Motley blamcs his own party with equal
freedom. ain those days everybody was 70 riso'
Ambition, whether in the Church or in any secular
service. was everywhere urged" A boy whose as
position marked him for holy orders was reminueu
that he might one day be bishop. kussoi' "no
was master of Charterhouse school in MI Mo]ioy |.
time was clergyman, but, Il cannot recall
writes our author. that he once sugges'ou w. ~
could he properly called religious moti'o o'on
the simple form of serving God and iur'ho,'"e ""
interests of the Church The very lowest oo" n,"ii
that he cond threaten idle boys with was that they
would live to be country cnrates. iheio 10 an u"
| pleasant abundance of more or less scahuaiou'
stories in the book, not worth preserving anu cer-
tainly not worth copying. Ihey prove ho'ni"s' '''
any church could match them.
| Wbatey was one of the great hgures Ut o''oi
College at this time, and his eccentricities form
the subject of an amusing paragraph or two;
| He used to take daily walks round Christ Church
! meadow with little company OF dogs, anN PIo-
yded with sticks and big round missiles ior .leIr
amusement AS soon as people heaIa ne Mas "a,
| bishop of dublin the first question they asked was
| how would be amuse his dogs. de used 70 LECTURE
his awkwar! squad OF elderly o e Over
| ST. Alban Hall lying on sofa, with one leg over
! the hack or the eud Like Macaulay, ne hau
| healthy appetite possibly because he had not been
playing with during the day Ppa and eat at
| the same time, when he was to dine at OrieI, a
| large dish of currie Calls head hash' OF otner
soft and cOmmnuted meat, was PROVIDED heP S;t
! edlv when | have been serving this dish aI High
Table plate has been brought TO me, anu ny ~,
put on it what seemed to me lloeral nelp. IN
| for the Principal sir" the servant whispered anu
| then | began entirely dc moro. believe W hateiy
rather astonlshed the Dublin walters az the ho'oi
| where he had to put up on his arrival there
When he was appointed Archbishop of Dublin
he conceived the strange idea that his acceptance
of the see was a service of danger, and he took
| elaborate precautions against assassination.
| II ,v.s NOT long before there came from Dublin
some rather absurd stories. At the Viceroys taPle
| the Archbishop was airing his Liberalism gayly'
After rapid succession of magnanimous surrendeIs
he suddenly felt he must make stand some where:
There was at least one thing he eond not and and
| cionslv that Whately went on stronger than ever.
by he felt varCps toes nS Fee
| %roke ont indjpnantly What are you kicking me
forW This final stand happened to be the very
| point On which the Niceroy was most open 10 cen-
| sure.
There are two or three of Mr. Mozley's remnis-
! cences which have peculiar interest for Ameri-
| cans He 1escrbes dinner to authors given by
the ublisher Rivington. There was an excellent
company, but the conversation was dull and dis
cursive. and the dinner was failure: The fact
was terrible blow had just fallen on English ltera-
ture This was funeral feast over scores oil prom
,sing works. born to die at once some indeed never
to he heard of, so l have been told but TO pass
straight from the press to the vat. 1t was the year
of.Incle Toms Cabin All the 'ologies, ali the arts
and sciences histories travels ctions, facts. light
literature, everything that man can read perished
| in that fatal blight"