The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-04-10
The american Poet Refused a Memorial
in Westminster Abbey.
BEAN DRlELEY'S FINAL DECISION.
The Uai0niSts Organizing for the Coming Campaign
in TelaHi-FrCudeS frOfeSSOrShip in
Oxford Opposed.
Special TO THE MORNING CALI.

NEW YoFF, April O. - Smalley's special
cable letter TO the Trbune from London
says: Dean Bradley's refusal to find room
for a memorial 70 Lowell In Westminster
Abbey is an act for which no explanation is
vet forthcoming. Want of space Is not
good explanation, any more than when the
bust of Matthew Arnold was hid away
where not one visitor in C thousand will
ever see il. Lowell, Of course, as an Amer
lean. has no claim. 1t rests with the Dean
OF Westminster for the time being 10 grant
or refuse admission to the Abbey. There ls
no appeal from his decision or indecision eX-
cept to public opinion or TO Parliament.
where public opinion is sometimes crystal
lzed into concrete form. II was Parliament
which interviewed to save the Abbey from
tie intrusion of Prince Louis Napoleon,
whom Dean Stanley was resolved to admit.
The present is no cause for invoking that
supreme court of appeal, nor do know that
LowelPs American friends need care much
about the matter. It is Lowell's English
friends who made the request TO the Dean,
which he somewhat churlishiy, they think.
has Tejected. Lowell, SAYS one Of them, is
not thought good enough for the Abbey.
Perhaps net. lie was merely the foremost
American man OF letters of his time, long
resident Of England. and considered here as
a representative who did valuable ser vice TO
his own country and to this. Admittedly
tie first-it is the English who admit it
scholar of English literature. what has he
20 doe with Westminster Abbey? That
mausoleum of nonentties is dtgnifed. no
doubt by the tombs and memorials Of some
great men, but the majority are no company
for Lowell. To say that Lowell shall not
l..
can shall in future, and that the few now
there had better come away-Longfellow
first of all. who will hardly caro- TO remain,
now that his friend is excluded. II any
Dean of Westminster Of the future regrets
the exclusion he may chlsei into some vacant
stone the line in which the French Academy
does penAnce for the absence Of MOliere:
Nothing was wanting To his glory, he Is
wanting 10 OUTS"
The Unionists Organizing.
Not much more is heard Of the Ulster pro-
test against home rule. but the leading
Ulster members are steady at work organiZ-
ing their convention for next June. Colonel
SaundersOn and I. w. Russell have already
visited Belfast to make preparations.
Among their plans is one for an appeal to
the nome onfOrmlSt conscience. lTISh-PrO-
testaDt ministers to the number Of 100 are
10 be sent as missionaries from the north Of
Ireland 10 preach the UniOnist gos spel
throughout England and Scotland to non
cOnfoTmiSt meetings. The subject of this
convention is not one which the English are
at present eager to discuss. 1t is too deli
cate for rough handling, and tho general
election is too near. English public opinion
Is as strongly on the side of law aud order
as of the union itself. and suggestion of
an ultimate appeal to force against an irish
Legislature is felt to be full Of political
danger. Il is the watehword Of ths Nation
alists to treat these Ulster proposals with
contempt. They do not feel very lively.
therefore you will hear little from either
side till the time for holding the convention
draws near. None the less carefully is
every step watched by both sides.
Freeman Opposes Froude.
If any outcry against the appoint
ment Of Fr0ude as TegiuS pa I3fesSor of his
tory at Oxford reaches across the Atlantic
you may safely set il down to one of two
causes. 1t comes from the Freeman party
or il is an expression Of political animosity.
Freeman and his party thought they had de-
stroyed FroUde. 1t had become with them
an article OF faith that he was not to be
considered historian. OF course they are
bitter when Lord Salisbury, by virtue of his
authority as Chancellor Of the University OF
Oxford, appoints Froude as Freeman's sue
eesso{. 1t is nevertheless an act Of mere
justice to the greatest historical writer of
this generation. No man has been so per-
severingly attacked. No man has treated
the attacks on him with such uniform In
difference. Whatever pedants may say.
scholars and the public have remained true
10 him. Froude is greater name than it
was a generation since. The authority Of
his historical work, often impeacbed, has
never been oyerthrOwn. Among the many
iniqulties which Freeman and others i'm
puted 10 Froude Is one TO which he must
plead guilty He is not GladStODian. This
sin in the eyes of a good Gladstonlan in-
cudes and sums up all other sins. Not to
be an idOlator, is to an idolator an offensive
fhinn