New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-04
NOTES FROM LONDON.
MR. ALLINGHAM-MR BUCKLE AND TIE
PIGOTT LETrERS-MR STEAD AND
THE POPE-THE MDOUGALL


poetic Imagination. Once or twice he struck
a resoundng note. In The ToucbstOne,' for
example, which Emerson so much admired and
repeated with delight. He repeated it. one
Sunday many years ago 10 a great audience in
the Boston Music Hall, whom nc electrified I
can still hear that penetrating and sympathetsc
voice, with ntonations and infections like n
! other, as he recited the last stanza:
And when 10 stop all future harm
They strewcd It's ashes the breeze,
| They little guessed each grain Of these
! Conveyed the perfect charm.
This, and some half dozen other poems a
! dillingham; Emerson included in his Parnassus,.
more, | think, than of any living English poet
except Tennyson. Another English journal Il
content 10 praise his Nightingale Valley a.
! including some OF the choicest lyrics and short
| poems in the English language They are na
| Of Allngham's writing, but Of his selecting
| He had sure and delicate judgment in poetry
! like Palgrave Mr. Froude chose Allinz iAn "a
succeed him in the direction of Fraser's Ma.
zine" lie was one OF the Froude-Carlyle roup
which included also Mr.. Ruslin. Carlyle had
perhaps, as much liking for Allinsham as he had
for anybody who stood to him in the relation Of
admircr and rather defercntial friend II WIS
never easy to be C.,rlyles friend on other terms
Allingham is the hero Of the anecdote. which
believe / told you at Carlyle's death without his
name. They used to take long walks together.
During the whole Of one Of these tramps, which
had lasted two or three hours Carlyle had stomed
away against modern ideas and the modern radical
ism which he detested. Allingham tramped
and listened in silence till the doorstep Of tte
little house in Chelsea had been reached on their
return: then, in justice 10 his own beliefs, put
in mild word or two of protest, while the maid
was answering the bell Carlyle turned him:
"Allingham, we're not altogether a bad fellow,
but I'd just have We to know that man can
never get in a word Of sense for your everlasting
jabberng" Alingham was, in fact, the most
amiable and modest Of men, with shy manner
and an air of self-distrust which added nothing
to the authority of very good and careful talk
He married a lady well known in the world Of
art, Miss Helen Paterson, painter in water eolGa
whose work has been seen and liked for many
years past in various London galleries. Tho
union was one OF affection and of genuine SYM
pathes II was his wish 10 be crematcd and
this wish was carried out on Thursday;
. Leaylng a song 9 A. earth tn s 1so9gw,
II would be hard TO overpraise his gentlenes
or sincerity of character.
There is a curious LITTLE passage about the
Editor of The Times" in Sir Henry James,
very able and often powerful argument oeiofe 'ne
Parnell Commission. Sir Charles Russell h'ntea
that Mr. Buckle did not quite agree WIN MI
Walter and Mr. Macdonald on the SUBJECT OF 'ne
Pigott letters. Sir Henry's comment Is TINS
81 desire to say-perhaps ! ought TO use dlner.
ent words. and say am desired 10 say-that tnat
statement was not made upon information that
is correct, and that the gentleman OF whom am
now speaking desires to stand, and II Necessary
TO fall, with his colleagues IN the cause Oh 'hs
case
Upon this. Mr.. Justice Hsnten remarked thss
he thought Sir Charles Russell only suggested that
Mr. Buckle did not authorize approve the
publication of the letters Sir Henry thought II
went further than that, but added: only
wish 10 make it clear, on Mr.. Buckles behsk
that he is not standing aloof from his colsagu es
That is all right and is honorable TO Mr.. Buckle
but it is still to be noted that Sir Henry James,
rectification is cautious one. He does not, in
fact deny what is commonly believed in the pro-
fession TO be true; this, namely, that II the de-
cision had been with Mr. Buckh, the Pgott lec-
tiers never would have been published IN Inc
Times It is not supposed that Mr.. Buckle went
very deeply into the question Of their genuine
ness and. of course he did not see through tne
fraud or really suspect the letters TO be iorsed'
If he had he must have resigned sooner thsn Dc
even a consenting party to the publishing oil tnem'
But he he Id that to enter upon such mauer' -"
assume as il were the duties of public prose
cutor as against Mr. Parnell. TO stake great
cause uron single issue not wholly clear was
beyond the duty of such paper as The ZINES
Mr.. Walter and Mr. Macdonald were too sangune'
roo blindly over-confdent. to he stayed in their
course by such considerations these, and NE
Buckle did not think his responsibility as Ldl'of
of =" The Times called for more than pfoess'
or than n representation of his views 10 those VINO
had and still have, the ultimate authority IN the
conduct of that journal. There is nothing IN or
Henry James, statement 10 conflict with ths
account. which I give as one widely accepted "
those who are in position 10 know what goes VI
behind the scenes, and one which MI pucAi'
friends have had some hand in cIrcuia''"s-"
doubt without his knowledge.
Cardinal Manning after all, docs not Keep
the key of the Vatican. and his passport Is not
valid with the Pope. lie was Deheveu 10 n"'1
.rran,al an interview between His Holiness ana
Mr. Stead-or. perhaps I should say, between
Mr. Stead and IIis Holiness, for know NOT WING"
* the greater potentate of the two. BIT M
Stead has been TO Rome, and the Pope has IT,
fused IA seq him, and he records his dlsappoin'
ment in this very characteristic sentence
1T is therefore without fear OF giving oIenss -
that | must put on record my cohVlc,Ioh nav or
far as | can see the Vatican, as at present ccn'
stltuted and controlled. is about as ht 10 unos
take proAtaby the guidance of the social rn rr1u-
zion of Christendom as the ruins OF the JUL uanst
after the Forum the Vatican is almost the m.s'
archaic ruin IN RCme-are conipeteIt 20 a'''
take the Federation of the British Empr
We'll, if Mr. Stead had only found ous
London what q ruin the Vatican is, 1t m'sh0 "a
saved him an improbable journey. he wen
interview the Pope and to publish the ih'' "a
in his paper, but that was not all NC =,
mission He always has mission IL. Nh,
convert the Pope to Socialism and Woman n 49,
and other leading articles OF the Steaai'n I.,o,.
But If the heather will not even see 're III. IN.
ary. what chance has he to turn 'ne', ~,.s,oa
error of their ways? Last year ne h", ~ &C Con-
| -. u .uonne nnfn the Gentllcs OF lhc -