New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-10
PERSONALITIES.
CARLO pELI.EsRINI-DR FRANCIS HUEFFER
MR.. DADABHAI NAoRoJL

- =. -, "a singular talent as an artist that
first made him known in London lie wiz away"
be remembered as earicaturlst lie hao inc siiV
-not a common one-of caricature; an eye to
perceiye the points in a mans race ana nsure
which best lent themselves TO rdicule, and hanu
and pencil 70 put them on paper Ills secret COLI
sistod in exaqgeration He took what was most
characteristic in his victim and dwelt on IL; en-
laroed IL perhaps, though not always, but, IN any
case brought it out and forced it on your attention.
II might be only detail which most people wonio
overlook or think unimportant but in Pellegrlnis
hands il became essential and denoted the man.
He had the advantage of being foreigner ana
of altogether alien race, so that whaJ escapeu io
native observer seldom escaped him. lie naue
his sketches more English than the hnghshuan
cnuld because he was himself not English, and
what was distinctively English struck him at
once The comic or grotesque or eccentrlc FEATURES
In the English character and in English person
sIities strnel< him most OF all His first appear
snce WINS decisive lie has never done anything
more mastery than the caricature OF Dsrael
,vhich opened that long series of brilliant per-
formances in Vanity Fair" He made the fortune
Of that journal or helped make It, Tor ME.
Bowles its editor is too able man TO have owed
his success mainly to any other than himself. Inc
signature which Pellegrini adopted. Ape, was
not ill-chosen. lie had the initiative power Oh
his narnesake and much more than merely mi
tative power. for in his best work there Is
imaginative power also, and not NJ a low oroer'
To him as TO so many true artists, regular
work was distasteful His genius would not DC
commanded and he did not always care TO get
between the shafts The place which ne from
time 30 time left vacant was taken, and sometimes
6IIed nv others NJ Tissot was one of those who
took IT, NJ Tissot might have been good carl
caturist had be not been a caricaturst when ne
did not mean 10 be. His serious art, or wnat NC
desires should be accepted as serious, has SO many
clements of caricature that not much can be addeo
nv intention Mr. Leslie Ward is perhaps inc
hest known of those who keep the lamp OF carr
cature alght in Mr. Bowles's paper; nnder Ine
signature Spy He, too, understands III "na'
caricature consists and where the essence Oh Z"
70 be sought, and many OF his drawings are eA-
cellent studies of his subjects, ana as goou Ca
amples of genuine carcature as this generation eau
now supply. But Pellegrini, il may be sald stood
Live. he had the indetinabe something which the
others have not. His Neapolitan birth and blood
corpted for much He trained his successors, but
training is not temperament They counted Ior
something also in his extraordinary popularity
Nobodv WAS better liked than the Pelican, II
Imav give him in print the name by which ne was
familiarly known to his friends 10 say that ne
had not an enemy would be no compliment ~
is only weak men who have no enemies but nc
had fewer than most strong men, and IL is the more
remarkable because he was always engaged ID
work likely 10 make him enemies. IL Is noC
everybody who likes TO be caricatured; even "heh
the caricature is not malicious. There was no
malice. properly speaking, in PelRgrnls treat
ment OF his topics, but there fidelity to facts
ora a keenness of perception into character which
tba patient might sometimes think meant mischief
II the patients had grievances however, they kept
them 70 themselves, or the sensible ones dd ana
Tho men OF the world who are to be met IN the
world | have known Pellegrini for good many
vears and met him in various companies, huu
never saw him greeted with black look hus
eeniality was delightful, his talk was al ms OWL
He smoke the most extraordinary Engilsn ever
hoard with the accent Jf man whose mouth ls
full of macaroni 1t added flavor to his W.T. as
Artemus Wards spelling did 20 his stones. ne
brought into England some oil the suhngnV Vi nio
own Neapolitan sky. In his latter years be mas
hoon AN invalid. and the haunts that used to know
him have known him more seldom. Yet his
,,o,,atv Of mind never forsoox him in public, nor
,ras any evening dull with Pellegrini TO enliven
a The stories he told albeit sometimes realistic
the racy idioms he invented on the spur OF tne
moment. his brilliant compromises between iUhiiah
and English grammar, the charm OF bis manner
which was something between the street urchlh
Of Naples and the dwener in Mayfair
the large gesture which. when you met him
abroad reached clear across the street. the child
iilre kindness and sweetness-who is TO give
? Ms all these now that Pellegrini is gone
xsrv aiderens person from Pellegrini was
n. rraucls Hueffer. whose death occurred almose
at the same time-as different. first Of all as Is
German from an Italian Yet both oil them
had to do with art DR.. Huefer was musi-
clan. His function in life Of late years was
70 be musical critic to The Times" lie criti-
c,sed with CONSPICUOUS ability; they who are
competent TO Judge say with impartiality, also
This last quality has to be insisted on, because
DR. Hueffer was Wagnerist TO the tips OF ms
German fingers None know better than the
readers Of musical criticism In The tribune
that it is possible TO be devout disciple OF
Wagner and yet do justice to music which is
not the music Of that master Here IN Eng
land, however. the emphasis on DIR. Huefiers
business of mind is none too great. lie wrote
books on other than musical SUBJECTS having
some of that various culture which all edu-
Gated Germans are presumed TO possess. Al
musical first night no face was more familiar,
and his face is familiar. also, TO those who
know the few portraits which Mr. Alma-ladema
has given us-of which DR.. Hueffer's was one
full of character and quality and mastery paint
ing. i suppose he had very considerable IN
Huence on English musical opinion. He had
learning and a power of expressing himself with
the pen in the English Language, and>an unhesi-
tating conviction of the -soundness of his own
judgments-a conviction in most cases probably
well founded.
II there be man whose gratitude to Lord
Salisbury ought to be unlimited. it is our Parsee
fricnd.t Mr.. Dadabhai Naoroii / see that Sir
Lepel Griffin, whose authority things Indian
is better than ON America, calls him Mr.. Dada
bhai and not Mr.. Naoroii. as is the custom of
those who have not the good fortune to be dis
tingushed Anglo-Indians. like Sir Lepel Let
us follow. In this. IL not in other matters Anglo
Indian example. Mr.. Dadabhai. then, was,
until within these last few weeks man who had