New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-26

II was n duel to the death for ] knew that HI
Burton would never relax his EFFORTS 20 ee thar ,e
views unou Scotch cheescs into PRINT wnie tneIc
was breath i'm his body. On the morning OIL the as1
day of the fifteenth year he ran INTO my o,'i I
waving paper in his hand ana crying Out Tvs
q. What cried I, ,you pcrsevering devil! not IN
The Scotsman. surely r.. L
Ono said he. in ChdmCcrss lnoTmooo >" '"'
alIy relief of mind is not to be described, ana i
must also confess here Russell turned to me WIN
chucke that it gave me no ltie After
think that it was your friends the ChaWheiScs i''i
all who'd got it,"
Still Mr. Payn confcsses that although the
gravity of Edinburgh life was mitgated by hunior'
that life was very serious
Everybody must remember Dean Ramsays story
of the disspated Young man "who went TO !oo
many funerals; and there was certainty some ,me
OF ausierity even in Its pleasures Mnh I ~
section of the community everything tha' n"u H.
ton to pastmc considered wickeu' at nv nv
booksellers they patronized sold nothing pnt III
proving books Wishing TO have some tno1 &c nn ~
knowledge of the national game ordercu VI "
them n hand book of golf, and IN nne c ,InJ
received neat little volume cntlticd ~ ,,' n,
of Providence, excmpcd in the life OF Jonh a. 10
Gongh he tetotaiGh c au .IUh til the tears ran
down his cheeks and rather grudgIngiy opsc' ,rui
" Now why should this have happened 10 you ""''
So seriously did society at large regard matters
that the droller side of things escaped thrlr pus'l
yaton. beggar haa siooo !" on his breast
With i t this nscription: Blind from my birth; l
have seen better days.
Mr. Pawn saw great deal of Miss Martincau. TO
whom he devotes many Of his best ana most
agreeable Pages lie had warm regard ior Una.
remarkable woman. and for many summers lie l'seu
10 spend a month two i'll her neishDorhoou' III
the lake country. Under the ndvco of some scen-
tiGc person she once tried smoking as a remedy
for her deafness. al had the privilege" says Mr.
hor ,,rtx~a al
mild cigars. and many and many a summer night
have we sat together for half an hour or so in her
rorch at The Knoll" smoking. If some of the good
peoplc her ncighbors had known of that. 1t would.
we agreed have really given them something to
talk about For my part. ] enjoyed nothing SO
much as these evenings We find nothing remark
able in Mr. payn's "reminiscences OF Dickens, ou'
here Is an interesting anccdotc of Ihack,ray;
first saw 'Thackcray at the house o my ololher-
iu-law with whom was then staying III gloucester
Place; they had lived together as Young men ~
Wrimar but had never seen one another since. ana
their meeting was very interesting. Ihcir ines III
life had been very drrent but tue r''ol'c,,"m "
and characteristic thing happened on the occasion
in question. There were dozen or So ~ dinner;
all unknown to lhackeray, but ne Wa III eI"u
spirits and made himself very agreeable ~ us-
appointed me excessively WHEN, immediately aitcr
dinner he informed me that he had u most raitir
ulor engagement ana WAS nno EQUIV ~, o wr" smoke
u cigar first 7" | inquired. cigar IN my
smoke here. do they Well. to tell YOU the truth.
that ,ras my engagement aud he renamed Tor
many hours There WAS m nnclcnt G'ntlrinHn ~
table who had greatly distinguished hlmseli nan
"A century ago nj college. 10y whom the noNrllst wa"
much attra,tcd. and especially when ne l"ld MN
that there was nothing really original IN modern
literature: everything hcsald, came indirectly ph"ie
or lcss) lrom-l think he said-l'lndar ,,.,,..
" But at all events Pmdar did not write VANITY
Fair" ! said o ~,
ayes. sn." answered the old gentleman, he did
In the highest and noblest sense Plndar did write
it,"
This view Of affairs which was quite new to HIM,
delighted lhackcray, who was so pleased WIN Nus
teen in alto dine with him the next day. | men
ton the circumstance not only rs beng humorous
thing i'm itself but illustrative OF certain boylsn
and lmpulslyc strain that there was III his nature
lie told me aicrward that when he subsequently,
went 10 the club that night he had felt so danger
ously hosptabc that II was all lie could do 10 pre-
vent himself asking some more people ; ana as
had been very moderate ~ To wincdri hiking, ana
was only carried away by a spirit 81 gtnIa!ity,
With nov and then ovcrmaStcrcu him. hc
guests who had 80 much taken MS fancy or per
hans il was only the ancient Classic, whom lie
coIld not well have invited without the others
were of course delighted with their invitation, nut
many of them had scruplcs about accepting ".
They called the next afternoon m lalIs 10 hntpM
" what We were going to do about IT., ana whether
we thought Mr. Thackeray had really meant IT,
For my mart | said | should 90 il | went alone;
and 90 we did. An excellent a inner we gOt. NOT
withstandng the shortness of the notice; nor IN
our kind hOStcSs'S manner could he detected the
least surprise at what must ntVerlhcl'ss nave
seemed somewhat unlo0ked-ior lncuisloh.