The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-04-12

found time amid the continues and arduous calls of his duty to be prese.,
 here this morning. Hear, hear Hsy.
 occusion to speak oi this place some Two years ago, remember that then -,.
 pressed the hope that some day or che the Abbey of Westminster would oecor7.
 the Valhaila of the whole Engiish-seea., ing race. little expected then ,ia,
 beginning would be made so soor-a b.-
 ginning at once painful and gratifying IT
 the highest degree to myself-w.:h he
 bus, of my friend. Though there te no
 academy ln England which corresponds to that of France, yet admission 10 Wes;.
 minister Abbey forms a sort of pos,hu.
 nous test of literary eminence serhaps
 as effectual. Every one of us has ki< own private Valhalla, ard it is TIC: ap, .c
 be populous. But the conditions of s5.
 mission to the abbey are very diferep
 We ought no longer to ask why ,s 50. and-so here, and we ough, always :a be able to answer the question why saea
 one Is not here. think that or :a., 9e. casion l should express the united :se..ns of the whole English-spcakine lee .5 confirming the choice which has ae,- mAde-the choice of ore whose .,a=4e |. dear to then all, who has inspirec ;fer lives and consoled their hearts. Ag.c Wo.
 has been admitted 10 the firessGe | j.. of them as a familiar friend. 4ea.
 hear Nearly forty years ago h.a oecasion. m speaking of MT. : enc.el.a~ To suggest an a'.alosy between b.ra .r
 the English poet, Gray. and haze at q seen any reason 10 modify or change .na, opinion. There are certain very r.a.xet analogies between them, ,h.ak. n .re hssi place there is the same love Q; 4 CT. tam subdued splendor no: inoors.s CT. VI T transparency ot die,ion :ae.e she same power of absorbing and ass:n....:. Ing ne beauties of other literature 4e.:..- out ioss oi originality ard abose there Is ,ha. genius. tha; sympathy Wi,e universal sentiments snd the 2caef Q, expressing them so that they come Aofne to every body, both high and .ox. at.ch eharao'efze both poets. There $ >ease- thlng also Tn ,ha, simplicity-s rn p.lz..l being Tn itself distinction but 1T s.y.e simplicity and distinction mas: te com bined Tn ordeT to their proper etie :. an: the only warrant perhaps of pesn anence m Literature Is this distinction IT. s:y.e IL Is something quite indennatie. :: !. something ike the distinc;ion of eoot breeding, characterized perhars .Y he absence of certain negative qua.l:.es thar hs the presence of certain positive aa-, eui II -eems to me that dis:r ,.en Q. s'yle IS eminenily found IT the pee M aor we are met here in some sense .e ec- ora;c to-day. Cheers Th:> s n: ..r plsec c. course for criticism. s... e :, Il thc place for eulogy, tor e.logy , aus too oi:en disguised apology. ae.. heal But have been slra .a... -. laIis-'i may bring forward ere s...a with some of my late f:e:..'s some. Which seem to me to be segle oi nc a4ost beautiful and perfec, we have :. .t.e a.. saase. They remind me of oae C; :s.a,e cabinets which have sometimes seen Tn which many of the drawers IT. IT. locked oy ssngle key. have Ieea son nets Tn which there Is a separate r.. S ili each iine, and after fumbi.nS among o.- fourteen keys we sometimes hn, a1!se..es m certain Ccnfusiqn. Added io + :hefe would be sometimes q corur.dr4.. oi sc- orei drawers. But there was no;s.ng oi this Tn him. His mind was always .ao.ec straight towards its object and wa> d. ways permea:ed with the emotion Ina: ga"e II trankness and sincerity, and l. the same time the most ample exDres sion Hear, hear, l. seems tna: shoald add few Words. in fact. cannot refrain from adding few words. with rega.c ;o the personal character of a mar waosn knew fer more than forty yea.s. and fr,a I sell tor thirty years. Never was c pf.ya,e character more answerable to pabiis per formance than ,ha, of Ionsfe..ow. %evei have known more beautiful character. was familiar with i, daiiy-x.s. ,he ( onstant charity of his hand ano ci ms mind. His nature was conse Ia,eG ground. into which no unc.ea- sIiri: could ever enter. feel entirely hox IT, adequate anything l can say $ 70 he measure and proportion of an 2 As,on like this. Bu, think l am a.;hor ed 10 accept Tn the name of the .Aller.aar people this tribute to not ,he .eas, dis inguisheo of her sons, to a man sno n every way. both n public and ia pE.y4:e ild honor to the country tha, gaze h.n birth Cheers canno, add anything o what was so we'll said Tn iew wo4d, oy Lord Granville, for do not :h.nS ina; hese occasions are precisely he occa- 'ions for set discourses. but ra,he, .of e~ words of feeling, of gra,i,ude and ai Cheers
 The sub-dean, in accepting :he bus: .emarked that it was impossible IT., :c eel m doing so they were acoep:,ng 'ery great honor 10 the country 4 vo,e 'f thanks 10 the secretary anG treasure: 'i the memorial fund was passed and he company then proceed 10 poe;s' Cor Ter, where, after brief remarks b the the covering was reI,ovec frcr. he bust and the ceremony ended.
 
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