St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-04
The st. Paul Divine Furnishes
Some More Kaleidoscope
Pictures
Of Noted European Charac-
teps, StOpied Scenes and
Grand Edifiees.
Thomas Power O'Connop, Ed
itor and Statesman, as
Seen at Hom9.
Oxford University, Viewed in
the Light of It's Glori-
Gus Past.

signifcance-with a passing glance
at its second soul, Little Poets Corner.
1t was Dean Stanley, the preacher OF
many sermon over scholarly, If not
sanity men, who changed Henry Wis
chapel into a new baptstry and christ
ened the Old one Little Poets Corner.
1t were a pity to miss this cosy spot
Here is COMMUNICATED Wordsworth, of
the Lake school, the laureate who i'm
.mediately preceded Tennyson, and wa
much admired by Mathew Arnold.
Busts seem to be the order of the day
in this corner. There is one of Keble
of the christian Year." the sacred poet
who helped Newman in what is known
in English religious history as the Trac-
tartan movement. Mathew Arnold. the
brilliant eSSayiSt of our times, Is SINH
larly remembered.
But it is difficult to find a sufficient
reason for the presence of monument
here to the late ~Henry Fawcett, the
blind postmaster general of England.
The fact of his being blind is hardly an
adequate reason for thus hOnOring him.
Some years ago, Father TOlton, the
Afro-American priest of Chicago, found
himself very much written about. chief
" because of the color of his skin; per-
haps a like reason, rising from rarity,
led the English people to wish for a
perpetual memorial of a postmaster
general who happened to be blind.
Some Modern Thought Makers
London, with its gorgeous wealth and
its Squald poverty, its dense ignorance
and its finished culture, It's degrading
music halls and its ennObling theaterS,
its rank agnosticism and its rich Chris
tianity, its corybantic cOStermOngerS
and its fine gentlemen, its fatigued phil
authropists and its selfish lOtus-eaterS,
its weary-eyed journalists and its festive
lawmakers, its hopeless peSsimiSts and
It's enthusiastic optimists, is the brain
of the English-speaking world.
There is not newspaper man in Eng
land more talked about today than L. p.
O'COnnor, member of parliament for
Liverpool and editor of the Sunday
Sun. Mr.. O'Connor's success in the
field of journalistic literature has not
been won without hard work. A grad.
uate of one of the queens colleges, he
was we'll equipped for varied journal
istic work, though not quite up to the
standard demanded by NJ. Bl0wItZ, the
well-kuown correspondent Of the Lon
don Times. In the early years of his
career Mr.. OConnor led the Bohemian
life of the average young journalist,
sometimes working hard and living roy
ally, again idling and fasting. But his
talents soon became known, and it did
not take him long to get to the front
rank i'll his profession. He works almost
as hard as Mr.. Stead, yet, unlike the
latter, his powerful physique is able to
bear almost any strain.
Mr.. O'Connor holds that every line of
q newspaper should be readable. that
the style should be terse and pictur-
esque, somewhat, should say, after
the fashion of MuIat Hastead's special
correspondence of long years ago. He
maintains that it should have serious
aad honorable purpose IN reforming
grievances, advancing liberty and max
ing humanity better and happier. Were
these mere theories with Mr.. O'Connor
l should not set much value upon them,
for there is not a newspaper from the
Alaska Kicker to the New York Sun
which does not promise such principles
and much more. He makes an honest
effort to put his theories in practice,
and no little success attaches
itself to his laudable endeavor.
The prosperity which attended his
editorship of the Star is well known,
emphasized as it has been by the fact
that he sold his interest IN that news
paper for $4,000. His next journalistic
child, the Weekly Sun, jumped into
fame ard fortune almost from its birth.
A chief feature of this paper is an ad-
mirable resume and review, done by Mr..
O'Connor himself, of some interesting
book, under the title. 1.-The Book of the
Week." 1t rarely happens that a re-
viewer can give the substance of book
so that its reading becomes unnecessary.
Mr.. O'Connor succeeds in this literary
feat, and Withal his review is forever
fascinating Three times he has APP
peared in the world of authors; thrice
he carried away laurels, and once he
appeared not without credit His scath-
ing Life of Lord Beaconsfield" was a
marked success; so was his History of
the Parnell Movement" His Life of
Parneli," written i'll a few days, is a
marvellous product, considering the short
time he spent in writing it. Mr.. OCon-
nor will never have to become an in
mate of a home for geniuses, for, unlike
most journalists, he has grown rich in
the exercise Of his honorable profession.
OF the
Editors OF Magazines
Mr.. George Newnes is attracting the
most attention just at present. He it
was who made such success of Tit
Bits, and he it is who has made so many
read the Strand Magazine, which he
edits. MIR. NewneS seems to be able to
turn everything he touches into gold.
He has riveted the attention of the
public upon himself just as Mr.. Stead
succeeded In doing some years ago. but
as yet no fierce opposition has been
aroused against him. That will come
in time if Newnes be made of sutfic-
iently sterling stuff to evoke 1t; if he be
not, he will rest content with making
money without fame, or will fall back
into the ranks Of the unknown.
The heavier magazines are. as rule,
SO emlnently respectable and so con-
Servatiyely devoted to beaten tracks
that they seldom raise ripple on the
smooth surface of popular thought.
Percy William Bunting, the editor of
the Contemporary Review, sometimes
breaks away from the Old lines. and
edits articles of legitimateiy sensa-
tional character Not many months
agohe published an article on Biblical
criticism which arrested the attention
of readers and writer's on two CONT
nents. The article i'll question drew
away dJleullOn IRON IlOI. OC6WartS'
paper i'll the Nineteenth Century. l
refer to his contribution so misleadingly
called the Happiness of He'll" The
paper on Biblical criticism dubbed
over with that bravery which is begot-
ten of anonymity. Still it did good, and
was mainly correct, except in such side
statements as confounded the teaching
church with the opinion Of theologians
"a serious blunder, for theoiogians
may opine as they please, since their
opinion does not impose an obligation
upon any man. Mr.. Bunting was care
full to conceal the name of the writer,
although [ have heard it from the lips
of many both In Europe and America.
Turning away from theology the quiet
editor dlscoursed freely on the Univers-
ity Of Oxford. | had been expressing
my surprise to him at one or two defects
e. a.-IL l.