New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-29

part Of his face you will not doubt that he has
sufficient forcc of character to bear whatever be-
falls him. The fulness of the brow is not more
striking than the solidty and energy OF the lines
of all that Us below Mr.. Chiders is on the other
side, most substantial person, with capacities for
business; can add mp columns Of figures with On
expert accuracy for which the CHARACTERISTIC OF
the ExcheQuer was once thought none too high
reward Mr. Fowler is next him; Fowler OF
Northampton, rising young Liberal OF fifty
eight, with prospects of Cabinet rank In the next
Home Rulc Government: dato not yet even ap-
proximately fixed And there are many more
who would interest you, were there time.
The speechesp We'll, no doubt, the speeches
are what most of us came to hear, and they were
well worth hearing and anybody who likes may
read them in the three columns they Gil. But can
not ask you to find room for any paraph1ase Of all
these admirable sentiments, and my comment
on them must be- or shall be- of the briefest. You
have oil heard Mr. Chamberlain in America,
or oil read him, and know his brisk, incisive
method; with that metallic note In it proper to
an orator from Birmingham. If l say he was not
quite at his best this occasion, it does not fol-
low that he did not deliver excellent discourse.
He did, and what hc said Of himself and OF
America, and what he omitted to say Of his
treaty was all good Ever since his return from
what fear he still calls the States he seems to
me to have kind of halo about his head; beau
tiful halo in gold; an aureole such as cncir-
cles the heads Of early Italian Saints; an ex-
preston of all the beatitudes which fill his soul
He wore it at this dinner also; whether he lis
tened or whether others listened to him, there
was ever the same radiance; the same electric
glow which Illuminated the place on which he
had bestowed the brilliancy Of his American sue
cesses.
II was from Lord Granville that the speeches OF
the evening came He has long passed for the
best I think-certainly by universal consent one
of the two or three best-after- dinner orators in
England When have heard him in the House
of Lords have thought him not less admirable
In that still more difficult atmosphere. He has
what few Of his countrymen have. lie has light
ness Of touch he has the easy method which
comes from temperament and Is perfected by i'm
mense pains and much practice. He has sense
Of form, turn Of phrase which is French, q rare
felicity in saying delightful nothngs which, as
you listen you accept vital Or at least, OF high
concern to the business of the moment. Spark
ling sentences fall from his lips; the utterance
Of them SO natural that you hardly do justice to
the art and tact and delicacy which have con-
tribnted to their construction. When he came
TO serious topics Lord Granville was both serious
and sincere. What he said Of America and Ameri-
cans was free from every tinge Of patronage, or
Of that condescension which Mr.. Lowell long ago
remarked in the foreigner, and of which Mr.. Mat
thew Arnold has supplied the freshest instance.
He had difficult thing to do in referring TO the
political differences between himself and Mr.
Chamberlain 1t was done as gently as If a
woman's hand had been laid on the wound lie
omitted no proper compliment to the guest OF the
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out thought Of fattcry. The word reminds
me that am myself perhaps expressing my adj
miration Of Lord Granville without remembering
a familiar apophthegm, and without paying him
the best compliment Of all by initiating his re-
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