New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-20
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
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OF MANY MEN. By 4. C. Evans 12mo. Pages
VI. 266. Tho American News Company Now
York
This is a bright and interesting book. gathered
from the fugitive work, prolonged through many
years of a trained and cultivated journailst-Mr.
r. G. Evans. formerly an editorial writer on the
STAFF of The World" Mr.. Evans has traveiieo
much. and has kept his eyes open as he has gone
along. He came into contact in the course OF MS
newspaper career, with many men OF prominence
In this and other countries, and his impressions
Of them are set down in this book in picturesque
and lively sty1e, with touches OF gay humor ana
displaying a marked descriptive faculty. Among
the men of whom he writes arc authors IKE
Dickens and Bulwcr. soldiers like Grant, journal
lists like Greeley, Weed. Webb, Delane. Saia' ana
Yates lawyers like Rufus Choate, actors, preach
crs millionaires and Others not so easily CLASSIFIED
The longest paper is devoted to Charles Dickens,
with whom Mr. Evans negotiated for second
American tour several years before it was under
taken. MANY of the impressions contained in this
account are familiar to readers OF torstcrs
biography, but it is none the less interesting.
characteristic incident, which does not perhaps
exhibit Dickens in too amable light was his
account of a visit he received from Hans Christian
Andersen Mr. Evans says:
Hans Christian Andersen, whom Dickens nrst met met
In drawing room In London LOOK ms r nS hi hear
horrible idea came into my NINA, sau tsI,ny
suppose never get It back ana S nc came promptly
and stayed good while lie was very ausens o "Id
sentimental and emotional In his manher, d hurrv
away to his room and with all his merits and good
s arrival he rang tho bell asked to see the eldest
SON The eldest was away, but DicNcns tanc ~ ~
Guest wanted the eldest son shave him, that being
the custom In his own country. ,. o,rc
Dickens explained that, IN inc hrst pacci yoa"e
(rharle WAS
would be unsafe for him to a,temp, Inc r Hss,o n
sst risk of cutting the esteemed guests head OIL
Co. his beard being urgent Hans Christian 0om h,
swav 10 look for a barber His visit at Gad,s Hill
was Of generous continuance and when one gay o ne
dropped a hint of departure. Dickens said "chs
out and ordered the horse hitched up imhncuia'oH'
A picture of Dickens that leaves plcasantcr
impression was one given to MIR. Evans by William
E. Burton. the famous actor Burton was young
actor at one of the London theatres and Dickens
q struggling newspaper reporter in the days Just
preceding his sudden rise into celebrity
arcssinp room after the play and they would go thence
10 some tavern discuss rarebs, dcViiieu ru'i
nuslcsl glasses and other dishes, drinks, and topics
interesting to young gentlemen or i'r'aF3 an" nrmh,
matte ncInaiions sna one sh. S Young fellow
whom they called Charley, and sara ma. he We Kim
porter Of some newspaper ana sd h 81 hat time
l,uron said. The weather was colu' pu. ne ncci,
nat a
vIvaciois and happy il DIS wardrobe nag n"r'o S
horc pay,d.nsy in hIsh favor with his comrades as
10 speedily became with Burton hniseu, "nun "r
ward he visited frequently, and At their ]"n~lHs, :,
was sometimes without the money TO pay ms ike
the reckoning. One night he appcarrn aIas'a , In
so1n ~, ~, po'T 6carnr he Whole score himself
which he did bapfizing the occasion WIN t rrns1
wines which The tavern ,h sSc Of this sudden pros
pcriiy and replied that he bad ln.' ann ,hnv had
yaprs i pr, 1se, were be Sketches by Boz to
him the gateway of fortune and rcno"n'
The writer was in Washington as newspaper
rorrcsnondcnt during the stirring days when 'lc
murmurs of civil war were first making tnem
.clves heard and there is nothing better IN me
hook than his word pictures OF that ume' ihis
Is his account OF Lincoln's Inauguration:
uwas little after o'clock when the ON going am
incoming President arm in arm cnlciei INC 'apnn,
proccedar Immediately to tic iL,sirm ,ccd.S Nv
,hs marshal Of The district judge Of tho Snp'enno M
Court and sergeant ~ arms, ana iolo~ru ~
cnvnruors of States ard Others and made their way
10 tho cast porico If the CahioI VIII, d ,rhtc,
Mr Lincoln stood while he delivered his memorable
message Chief Justice fancy, Old shr,Vcsa 10 Ino
ION. with face like parchment. Unncd III i's 1871
robes SAT- in front of the array OF lnngcS; uo,".s
with many MUSINGS Close by e5 SGoa no place on
or under The small reading table provided Tor nm w
which to dcpH bis hs,s hat c. nsdfg nt the speech
W.s comnleied Mr. anroln's voice was clear ana
,he assembled mnltit,dcs which preserved m
broken silence from the beginning OF INC IncsSaSI
.he ave- a,onr Inc avenue carrying testimony. which
was likcwss flying the wires in every direction
that tho inauguration had been sucscssinily acool,
pshed and that in spite of all p,Ts Visionary nnd
ical. Abraham Lincoln was President Of me In'co
states and historic era haa been !sheiru b u" Nv
came from Springfield TO Washington vim MI.
ssca ny gy So" 10 we No sd eSE @S
te. ii I, was .hcn now possible 10 chcl n' ;
The Nation since was FOUNDED h hSa fVGf to o
\, MI n new and III, rcril goes hand In hama WIN
1huei.sm which rasc round him everywhere. such as
srhi greet any political chefiain IN MS season o
Sn"r ~ deen forchodng saulnc their chosen, and with
mingled hope and msgving snecang nm h GpTr ne
,Irper voice Of huzzas and accamafons OF sense %
impending danrcr and as 70 ,o wnso
without this fecfng. though IN mos OF hS I,,mr cr ~
friends and ncrhbors at Springfield at his departure
-pr,aus the most mourriul ana certainly one VI VI,
Tcd an apprehension which proved TO bc true ,hai n,
might be- addressing them for the last time and Nigh
he again Snms look YET Cincinnati Inn when The
and Se nxaey ~ OF his
rr~eaied to few friends who were there the lines
'ro"aa Come n' let us sit upon the ground.
And tell strange stories Of the death OF Rns''
They were all murdered
ali CAV To 4QGl his closest companion han III IEVs
Sny,s come news from his detective corps IN Ban
more Allan Pnkrton 1t their head, known men q
n,,scf and the President alone. cause sunlclent
srsre there none other, to determine even so sompi'
a eSoice o. shakcsperean quotations.
Mr.. Evans was a boy in Albany at the time
of Claws death, and puts on record here bis I'm
prcssons all the more vivid because oil his youth
OF the reception of Clay's dead body IN that city
cIav.s obscouies were grand and Imposing perhaps
.he civ had never put itself IN soicmner weeds
Mourning The boat that brought what was leit 81. o
tts Great man the husk and shred OF HIM. prone ahs
80, now once so erect and voiccfnl, did not eacl
IFS wharf TIL after dark and thousands OF '0rche
accompanied the long black corin carrier ~ ar
cycns ono group OF bearers relieving anoihcf ever,
utilr way myself proud 10 remember that heipcdl
AZ IL went on its way to the CaploL 10 p,pa'
cta,est the fambeaus fell In the triple rows on cithe
side and moved in lines. Inc tic hic sni
pcnts that weave their guard around Aeni IN ,h'
ttiudoo mythology Arrived In the Capt0i, INC slVe
plae covering the face removed ana those pSSen