New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-18
PERSONALITIES.
LORD SALISBURY AND Mr.. JOHN Mohhhi
MIR. HERBERT SPENCER-Mr. BLADES
MIR. LANG-MR KNOWLES'S
MAY CELEBRITIES.
MAY CELEBRITIES

which as custom preserves, uio '
responded. If you have hall-coiunh ~ S''
you might do worse than oil IL WIN i'oi"
h,rv,s little speech a model in It's KIND ana do
good all after-dinner discourse as any EnsIi'N'-
has Of late years been known to make ne i''
80 IN tho Cecils has a light hand when he 'hooscS
H. avon ventured on illusions that mghb be
o.I,.d nobtical though if there he any Jaw "VH
.o+tled at these banquets. IL is that politics aIe
EXCLUDED: politics. though not politicians i"c
,uthor Of these certainly believed them Tree lion"
offence He was sorry 10 see, he sAi''' "''' "'o''
~ the political portraits were portallS VI VIC
Liberal party including picture OF NJ hoC"e'o''
lie had perceived, also, picture OIL al HIS" e,''
lion With respect to this he Wouln Only say VIA,
There was such an air of breezy chc'I'uH'cSS al"
beauty about the landscape as maze MN loHo !"
take part in ell eviction whether III an "cuNc "a
. n,ssivc sense Then there was picture OF Inc
Flowing Tide: an alluslOn winch al ue'0's
uorsbinucrs AT the Gladstonian shrine ana. o'
,ours. all Americans. cannot but recognize. bu'
,ia Lord Salisbury laughinely, " the flowing t'"c
r.nresepted by number Of little boys oil hungry
,s,.ct seated side by side, waiting tlll ue "''
comes up ,o.o
Now these pleasantreS were not known 10 h",'
been ill received by the members OF uer N'J'S'S
Opposition then present until uprose MI 49,,
Morley 70 answer to the toast OF Literature '
!, vos coon NJ once that Mr.. John Morley was
angry He smoke loudly, and his pale "Sco"o
face was little flushed. lie turned sho'' "P'"
Lord Salisbury. Il can understand !"
that the portrait OF NJ Rocheiort Wou" 49,
the Prime Minister, because NJ hooi'''''
nolitician who was once ldoerh N"''''' In,
hos now seen occasion TO lose his iailh Ill h'o''
.n,, Tho retort was plainly meant TO
hc nersonal. and kind of shiver went Ioun" ''v
,ohio "Nor have SEEM" continued the h""i'",
,oader the "picture Of the Flowing Ilde' oUV
iii sxnect to find III that picture, Wheh l wv
~ :, n number Of lns-m@cHiu''
in which not the younger. but the eluci' S
Grafton are incarcerated.' And he auu'u '"''
whereas the younger were waiting eohnu'n''
the arrival OF the flowing tide the elueIN
,lemen in the bathing machines WOMB *
g., .nxious for n man and horse to denver 'n''"
from their imminent peril The he''cS, ia
productive of laughter after dinner ana ''',9
nroduced laughter. But Mr.. Morley i'"'
were not happy. 1T mast
1, was sail afterward that what hau "'o's
apgered Mr.. Morley was LORD H'4iS'"'S ~,
80 tho word hungry. with reference, apparently,
r. ..noc,ont noliticians and onice-hodets 81
tho CIadstonian party The incident passed. o'
without that explosion or protest when az CIV
ooo,t ,vas threatened II Will bear 10 ~
.,,l,s but IL serves to show how sensitive -'.'
Morley is with reference 10 any oPlui"h wiz"
,,uchcs however remotely, on the p'''n' "'
indie OF that wing Of the Liberal pATN VII" ""'''
he is identified Ills was TIE ue""'t"E pa,
=, his sneech The remainder Of II. winch h'u
boon thought out cooliy and al leisure Wac -"
NJ that charm which belongs 10 Mr. motley "'" ~
few Others in equal degree. lie cchN'l'u ""o''-
some and timely protest against '"' i"''",
q, the English language; directed eNpccl"lE
fruf
which he had lately marched thronsh Coventry
in search Of a verb 10 denote electrical pro-
sresson -" appalling forces ready al moment
notice 10 defacc and dciom Our Enehsh tongue.
1Yerc MIS- a word. TOO. which SENS meant ~
reach across the Atlantic. " ! irempc' s'ld VII.
Morley. oil" ~ see the day dppro ach-and am ""'
sure that II Is not approaching when inc h"'n"is
NJ the headlines Of American journalism man
mss current as models Of conciseness' energy
and color of style" Nay. lie objects '' 'A' ''''"'
,nccch Of AmericansoI Of some Amoricansand won
ders what the pilgrim fathers "l 'h' 'n''"'"
centurv would say II they could rear their pilsnm
children of the nineteeuih century who come over
ber. on various missions. aud among Others on
the make II is question whlrh answers I-
self The pilgrim fathers would r'co-nll' lh we
sociol speech Of their descendants many and many
a good word and telling phrase which l''' i'''''
out of modern English az Tie English im'tiA'
them IN he Yankee inventions. whereas lh'' aye
not all. OF course. but many only e' many sur
vival. Of The httesi and among ihe hil''l '"i
do | think many of the ph-um descendant, -p'a"
Of the thousand such-Ikc' expressions vino" ais
invading the Puritan simplicity 90 ouf tongue.
Mr. Herbert Spcnc.is -c,rntc'h birthday s.
suspect Kept more religiousy 800 America '..."
here IN his own country or, a' 1nN r't' H.''
generally \ sensational ncNspapor m'v ''' '''
occasion 20 cNpound 20 IFS rather '.'I"" ''f' ''
readers the Gospel according - ilr.n'n Np." rf
hu, the PRESS for The most r''' ''"''
heed Of the day Perhaps tuc tHmr r p'' f.'
Nr Gladstone could ash, Nh' i. H''''i' 'r
c,rp Yet neither now nor ever ha. f.r ht'H-
edge Of As b0u.s been wilespIcNd i1 l-
Probably bis chief influence has hrrn n''r "'.-
ondary than direct he h,s been rc'd H ''Hor
thinkers and other writers. ticmselsc, more wide
IN known ~ the British rhhlsfiuc t'fI Nl
Spenccf himself The same moss he .IIl. nH IN.N
~ most. IL not all philosopher. hlt tH those
there is public Tor almost cfcn body. 'nl DIT '
man he not read ~ Is NOT To- s,Hse t.rtr aie
not readers
In Mr. vrencers case the fault.oi tic mi.,or. unr.
Ia largely las own lie has disdlnrI tr arts
of ll,cmtun. by which even ihr ah.tiusc sciences
may he made attractive. like Browning 10"
e,sc,ed more from the average reader. oud did
Ieas IA smoothe his path, than The ''crnec reader
thought himself entitled to. llIs siflc has re-
peus~i those a. whom his theories were NOS IN
themselves ~ interest. Even when he wrote
fuf tic reviews Mr. Spencer preferred - De-
difficult. aud If hs addressed letter 10 thc news
papcrs he still declined 20 cloihe o. in such Ian
snas. that he who ran through the paper mifht
,.ad A. VIII. ease Ills sentences sometimes
rival Jeremy Benthams n bulk. aud Mr. Glad
stone himself does not pursue a more devious
way from end 70 end Of those complicated colo
cations ~ words la which the Ola Parliamentary
Hand wraps up his meaning from The proia'c. Nh
Herbert SpenccrS sayings were hard; he las
wilfuiIy made them harder. and he neglcois Ito
bahter graccs completely. sun. Therefore, On
This anniversary be finds himself on a lonely
III t.vor,uf Clerical outaTy against