New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-09
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PROSE AND POETRY or LONDON
MR.. CONwAY's SECOND MISUNDERSTANDING ~
THE CITY's LIFE.

Mr. CONwAY's SECOND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE CIrY's LIFE.
M0ncure d. Conway delivered the second of bis lso>
ures on England of Today in the University fluh
Theatre last evening. The special subject was Lon.
donIts Prose and Poetry" The lecture was a ph;Ios
optical inquiry into the life and rowh Of the grsss
city. Dscarding all description Of externals the ect.
sought to lay bare the mansprngs of the citys
lfe ascrbing to IL a sort of individuality and tracing
s influence persons and events and their reflex in.
uence upon IT, There is intense practIcaIity about
London, said Mr. Conway. The city puts its Impress
OF utllitarianism upon every who comes will in
the reach of its gigantic influence Cardinal Manning
was dreamer who had dreamed himself out of The
Anglican into the Roman Church. He cam to Lon.
don, and the dreamer was metamorphosed into an
earnest practical woIker whose aim to alleviate
the circumstances and purify tie lives Of the masses Of
his fellow men. Ii was the atmosphere Of Londoa
that wrought this change
Sturgeon was instanced by Mr.. Conway as another
illustration of the This great preacher" said
he Stands of the foremost representatives Of
Calvinism. Not long ago heard him preach sermon
on the text: Lead US not into temptation Here
said to myself is a chance .or airing of all tho
favorite Calvinstio dogmas including predestinaton
damnatlOn and the rest But as the sermon went on
that the image of Carln Tad bsen politely bowed
INTO corner. and that the preacher was penetrated
by the thought the actual temptations and mseries
of the great city, Ii an intensely practical
mon on the lite OF London London had secured for
itself all tie meat of the discourse while Calvin had
only the short grace with which the preacher prefsced
his remarks 10 illustrate the same thing in another
way-why were heretcs burned at Smithfeld, lie
within earshot Of the same spot doctrines far more
heretcal ttan those of the martyrs to-day boldly
advocated The heretics were burned because Il was
firmly impressed upon the minds of the Londoners that
the Corporation of the City OF London would not
prosper long heresy was allowed within its walls
heretics tolerated when the Londoners came to
the conclusion that it poor policy to burn human
beings, and that it added neither to the glory, wealth
nor power of their city"
Mr.. COnway's remarks upon the London Clubs bora
out the line of thought. The u ldamental idea
of these great associations" said he whose palaces
for they nothing less-Iipe Pail Mall is economy
The c.alistic idea is the handspring OF the London
clubs and the absence Of this lea is WI at has
dered limitations OF these cuts 10 other countries fail
man dine at hs club cheaper than at homo
because he buys his provisions aud his wines directly
from the producer without the Intervention Of mid
dleman. great cI NIB is nothing more than great
hotel with choice of guests and without a landlord
And yet the poor laborer in the East End has club
and sarves in his lodgings, because the privacy Of
his home must be respected"