The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-04-06


 and diplomat, whose talent, probity and intense Americanism now luminous.
 Even in New England the campus of academic Crichtons, he was distinctively recognized as scholar who closely locked arms with opportunity and sturdily climbed the rugged heights of knowledge. Graduating from Harvard College, in 1881, John Lothrop Motley bade a voyager's goodbye to honored classmates like Wendell Phillips, Charles Flames and Thomas Gold Apple ton, and crossed the ocean to continue his studies at the German universities where Bismarck was his comrade, day and night. Their association in. Berlin, was of the most intimate character. Motley thus describes the home life of the Bismarck family It is delightful picture
 "I am there all day long. It is one of those houses where every one does what one likes The show apartments where they receive formal company are on the front of the house. The living rooms, however, are sdioR and dining room at the back, opening upon the garden. Here there are young and old, grandparents and children and dogs, all at once, eating drinking, smoking, piano playing and pistol firing Gin the garden) all going cn at the same time It is of those establish ments where every earthly thing that can be eaten or drunk Is offered you porter, soda water, small beer, champagne, Burgundy, or claret are about all the time, and everybody Is smoking the best Havana cigars every minute. Last night we went to the theatre"
 The Iron Chancellor's human side is broadly turned to our gaze in several racy and sparkling epistles which are brimful of merry condolences
 "Let politics be hanged, dear Jack, and come to see me" he writes to Motley, when in Vienna sug- gestiDg that it is not quarter of Americans holiday journey from the Austrian capital to Berlin
 We are equally surprised and amused to see how the Man of Destiny renews his golden youth in the beakers raised and drained for the sake of "lang syne" and "the good old Colony times" And the bottle often gurgles
 Motley's forty years of activity (from short law practice, in 1887 and 1888, to within few days of his death, in 1877, at his daughters house in Dev- onshire, England1 is all told in these unaffected letters. His earliest books were two romances now recalled only by their titles Both were fail ures His diplomatic career began at St. Peters | burg in 1S4C. For six years QS6l- -lS6O he was United States minister to Austria. Refusing to notice combat anonymous strctures and villifca- tions, he resigned that post, and appointed, in 1869, to represent his native land at the British court. Recalled, in the late autumn of 1870, he went to Holland to complete the series of Dutch histories upon which his literary fame securely rests. These volumes are "The Rise of the Dutch Republic" issued in 1856, at his own expense "The History of the United Netherlands" Is60- 1868 and "The Life and Death of John of Barne- veldt, Advocate of Holland, Etc.," published in 1874.
 l In "A Parting Health" to Motley, written by Holmes, in 1857, that sportive rhymer apostro- phizes his friend "the true knight of learning" who ('in the alcoves of death and the channels of time'o would "sweep the black past like Von 1'r0mp with his broomr" The more sedate Whip pie says that John Lothrop Motley's chronicles are, in some degree, epics. They "warm the blood and kindle the imagination as we'll as inform the understanding" It is furthermore asserted that