New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-23
rs EDWIN ARNOLD HERE
u TALKS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
ESTIMATE OF GLADSTONE, PARSEIL. MRS
sEsANT AND OTHERS

-, with YOU. With me The Tribune Always
@ -, and stin Is . fsvorite American newspaper
NJ SnaIley very well. can oner you d
~" r0e Daily Telegraph. Maybe It's too early
eE morning for you to read IT, ana the news Vu"'
'-utains Is now, Of course, no longer news Du'
os,s ven a cigar and a seat and meanwhile we
90 nttle until this rush and hustle is over"
en che kindly way in which Sir Edwin Arnold.
s..,op Of The Star Of India and Knight Commander
1T, Empire. greeted reporter of The Tribune
~ -.a,.room on board the City of New-York early
10 roornng Major J. B. Pond, who VIII
y7'" "a, lec4nre tour was beside him as he spoke.
r,ass Is the Fourth Estate of the Realm in your
.ountry. Sir Edwin he said. you are now doubt
e :, ~. ouinion that in tns country 1t is the First
-. ,uacng BY the precedence which our friends
.r,ssent it have already claimed and obtained"
y, 80 not thought about that yet" said the
v.,,st with q quiet smile.
- vsutn Arnold has been known in newspaper
=. sve-vwhere during the last thirty years as
..o, q, The Daily Telegraph" Of London. but in o
- ssnse has he impressed his personality upon
...r, and literary men in every land as the author
J. ~. S-eat epic poem. " The Light of ASIA In
-. n, resembles that other famous Englishman.
rm,.n Ewart Gladstone, but the similarity goes no
go, The right honorable gentleman who leads
- or,ositon is a Liberal Of Liberals. Sir Edwin
- consistent and avOwed Tory. His great name
=. ana distant cousin, Matthew Arnold adjusted
10. \. spoke a single eyeglass with ease and grace
IA ro, a commanding and impressive appearance In
~ ,hs. NJ said and did. Sir Edwin has no need OF
$3.50 And YOU would not be likely 10 single him
=. IN q crowd of average citizens as in any degree
- .,,,soSinary man. But lOOsing little more
v.,1 one eaunot fail 10 observe the traces Of pro
.npS shought which that face reveals
ans sad that you became enthusiastic on reading
srapn uef
rBCssf.
TA,p came into his eyes look Of innocent sur
,-s aHss that really been ssld How singular
h., Won should have heard l was enthusiastic. !
A not think was Lord Beacon1eld has said, YOU
nav remember that Engllshmen are never enthusiastic
,hev are very earnest. No." he went on" l have
no, read any OF Lord Ternysons new play. 1t has
M As vet received name. But at his country
sesi at Aldworth on the South Down. Hampshire re-
Gently and proposed 10 read some portions Of his
poem Maud Lord Tennyson's face was grave and
doubtful before ! began. Nobody said ue' can
read nv poems but myself
Pardon me- my Lord said !, but think can
Very good. Sir Edwin said he, j will listen
al read on DO you think can read them, nv
Lord ~ asked.
You are quite right said he; indeed you cam
aCau we not now 60 ashorel- said Sir Edwin,
turning to Major Pond. and taking his gripsack as he
started for the door The two then stepped into a
carriage and were taken 10 the Everett House where
he talked more freely with the reporter later I'm the
day Sir Edwin Arnold was here once before for
brief visit his way to japan. Two years ago last
October he stopped at Harvard, and made an address
TO the students Of that university on the Invitation
Of President Eliot His first reading this time when
his visit will be more prolonged, aud during which
he will speak in a large number OF the principal cities
Tnio will he on edO
a. in the Carnegie Music Han. The proceeds win be
given 10 II. Marks Hospital Chauncey NJ Depew
VIII preside and the boxes will be sold hy auction ut
the hall on Monday, october PC.
Mr.. Gladstone said sir Edwin, deliberately. " is
great genius. The los OF his son weighed heavily
upon HIM Not long before left England presented
him one evening with 'Phra PhOnecia, book written
oy nv son. Lester Arnold When be received it he
lropped what We had been speaking about and asked
arnestly, Were they Semites or nOtp and without
waiting reply added i do not think they were Como
ow sit down Please and talk TO about it, That sub
sa alone enthrAlled aud engrossed him and hostess
I'd actually to drag him away. 1t does not do 10
dne with Gladstone; he Cverwhelms you with argu-
ents.'
Mr.. Parnell27
SWELL that Is politics. said Sir Edwin smiling and
would rather not talk on the subject. I am an
avooate Of an InperisIlst British Empire policy Of
his much though, that Mr.. Parneil had what is
ire the genius of silence His death certainly takes
Sm his party the motor spring. the impulse, the
SEPARATION. The mainspring of the watch is gone"
And our United states. Sir Edwn9'
when there is anything want to know about the
lschlnery Of government In this great country" he
Nd, - I have al hand a valuable and reliable book
rOtessOr Bryce's American Commonwealth, and TO
us invariably turn"
Won't You vouohsafe a criticism more definite than
latiH
Il might do 90 but why should II Your laws and
astCms are for your own people and not for ours.
Iere and there might be found things that would
ldeate weakness: but they are not of sufficient i'm
OrtEnce to Interrupt your progressive march You
light well Try to choke the Atlantic with the binders
la are pitched overheard from an ocean steamer! -
About your study of japanese customs and Of
lacsme Btt, atsky's scheme Of uIeosOphy said the
ePorter.
The new era in japan he answered. is only
Eenty three years old and 50 great the strides
bat have been made in that short lime by these
Fonderful people that you may now have in Tokioall
he civilized facilities to be found in Sew-iorA or
@ndon. A. for theosOphy, ii is hard to define it.
snet Colonel ClcOtt at CeyIOn and M another place
Q NE Presidency Of MadTa, sir Mountstewart Eplin-
tone Grant Dud the Governor OF Madras. quite
lngiy VITA NE when ! said that Colonel Ocott was
n honest IN popular way The Light OF Asia
lay be said express my views about Occultsm and
AeIsoPhy It comes 10 this Different nations have
Aaerent opinions and ii has always been the custom
40 practice u Eastern people 10 devote themselves
y the metaphysical side Of philosophy OF course
. 'ouh not help observing in Japan the effect Of
buddhism upon the national life. It was pleasing
WY You found there d people careless and uncon-
S .lsf about what may happen to thcm-wltI re
s-A me ienths fun and Ole-telnh fear lhey I'M /
fSe~ b1aahsm through corrupt source, china. /
Hss 4e Patent under difficulties, careless OF LIE aad
o. re kast distress or trouble arr not aftd 10 /
49, 4Sese some OF the mark " the pieaSt,H /
~ e.ol o. Buddhism. The study II the Invisible Is
~sAeate study as the Visible.
lr az f Ms Annie BeSnt size Is perfectly 5ncere
- sao say this with all humility, she Is Little
r. @.paate, and Ike any person not well educated on
h stlect, she is dazLled At the hrst with delight.
. Wy, those who know most about theosophy talk
!. mat estimate nave you formed Of Lowell ?"
lowell and a. he repeated the name IL leaned
Si'saiu eagerly willie his eyes gstcned With ad-
1.-oa. Your greatest man was Emerson, you
9ni Dat Lowell was almost the most capable critic
sG Knew
RS S.n you kindly offer an opinion on the success
hnoy ard Kjphnr7n