The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-27

/ disappointment of the English. wood
lands; but when it came to the English
lawns his admiration broke out at the
way in which England was groomed. 1t
was the fashion then to treat Carlyle
reverentially, and little as DR.. Holmes
had in common with the great Scots
man, he nevertheless paid a visit to the
shrine in Cheyne Row, and gives US
delightful account of it.
HIS LAST BOOK.
The last of Dr. Holmes books-"Over
the Iedcups shows the difference be-
tween maturity and age. He is still the
most cheerful of men, but he no longer
sparkles with that ebullient gayety that
marks the autocrat. He is graVer; his
wit and humor are kept better in hand;
his sensibilities have grown, and there
is deeper tenderness and larger
philosophy. AS an example of charm
ing writing; in which the felicity Of
Montaigne, the honlely wisdom of
Franklin and the wit Of Sterne are COM
bined, we have nothing exactly like it
in our literature
Perhaps of all the tributes he has
received those from England are the
most gracious. "When he came back
here the second time said the Lon
don Times, che was as full of go and
versatile enthusiasm as Mr.. Gladstone
Whether he figured at the breakfast
table as autocrat, professor or poet, he
showed himself equally at home on all
manner of subjects. He could tell
Ethan Aliens best time to second
and by how much Flora Temple had
beaten the record. He had been brought
up in the straightest sect of New Eng
land Puritanism, in the old gamlbrel-
rooted mansion to which he often
makes affectionate alluSion. We can
! hardly say what his creed ultimately
became, but we see at once that it was
OF the broadcast and most tolerant kind.
OF that we get some intimation in the
Chambered Nautilus:'
Thanks for the heavenly message brought
by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
cast from her lap forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Ihan ever Triton blew from wreathed
horn!
~, While on my ear it rings
fhrough the deep caves of thought 1 hear
voice that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, o my
soul,
Leave thy low-vauited past!
Let, each new temple, statelier than the
Shut thee from heaven with dome more
Till thou at length are free,
Leaving thy outgrown shell by life's IN
1.-THE Autoerat of the Breakfast
Table" was a natutinal monologue, and
II was thoroughly American idea.
We had had the 1Noctes Ambrosianae''
and the Table Talk of Rogers and
Lord Houghton and Coleridge, but they
all lacked that sparkling discursiveness
that would carry them everywhere,
and, as the London Times very justly
said. the talk of Holmes smacks more
of olives and champagne than of coffee
and bread and butter
A SPECIMEN OF HIS HUMoR.
One might go on to any extent in Civ
ing examples of the genial humor that
sparkled through those papers. One or
two instances will suffice. Do you re-
call the delicious distinction he made in
blondes?
There are. two kinds of poets, Just
as there are two kinds of blondes.
"CMovement of curiosity among our
ladies at table-'Please to tell us about
those blondes;,' said the schoolmistress.)
why, there are blondes who are such
simply by deficiency Of coloring matter
negative or washed blondes, arrested
by nature on the way to become Abb
nesses. There are others that are shot
through with golden light with tawny
or fulvous tinges in various degree
positive or stained blondes, dipped in
JCA1OW Slul5CulliS anu DIS ullllhG III their
mode of being to the others as an or
ange is unlike a SNOWFALL. The Albino
style carries with it a wide pupil and a
sensitive reti1fa. The other, or the le-
onine blonde, has an opaline fire in her
! clear eye, which the brunette can hard
| ly match with her quick, glittering
I glances.
~'Just so we have the great sun
| kindled, constructive imaginations, and
a far more numerous class of poets who
have certain kind Of moonlight ge-
MUS given them to compensate for their
imperfections of nature"
DOWN THE LONG PATH
Then there is that delicious love scene
of the Professor on the Common: THE
mall or boulevard of our common. you
know, has various. branches leading
! from it in different directions. One of
/ these runs down from Joy street, south
ward across the whole length of the
common to Boylston street We called
! it the long path, and were fond of it.
! Il felt very weak indeed Though of a
| tolerable robust habit as we came OPP
posite the head of this path that morn
ing. ! think L tried to speak twice
without making myself distinctly audi
| BILE. At last l got out the question,
Certainly said the schoolmistress,
with much pleasure Think, [ said,
before you answer. If you take the
! long path with me now shall interpret
! it that we are to part no more. The
schoolmistress stepped back with a, sud
den movement, as if an arrow had
struck her.
"One of the long granite blocks used
as seats was hard by, the one you may
still see close by the gfngko tree. Pray
| sit down. / said. No, no. she answered
softly, I will walk the long path with
you
THE old gentleman who sits opposite
met us walking arm in arm about the
middle of the long path and said very
charmingly. Good morning, my dears.' .
SOME OF HIS BON MOTS.
A distinguished Frenchman said of
Holmes that he had taught the Yankees
how to laugh properly, and it was a
new experience for these children of the
Puritans, who had been bowling at
Artemus Ward and John Phoenix. In
doubtedly DR.. Holmes was a wit, and ii
was that kind of wit which brightens
the dinner table and puts everybody IN
the best of humor. In early life he had
a weakness for punning, and reminded
one of Tom Hood, but later this was
suppressed or modified, and he remind
! ed us in his eXtemporaneouS repartee
more of Douglas JerroId. What can De
more American than, when dining with
/ Lord Coleridge, he remarked aboul
American lawyers that the poverty of
the American lawyer and the wealth of
! his client was his glory.
I When in England Mrs. Siddons was
being discussed. Some one said that the
statesman Fox had been snitten by the
great actress. Holmes said that from
all he had heard of her he could not I'M
lderstand man falling in love with her.
She was too grand-it was like falling
in, t1oa, Ia
Worshipful Company of CIothmakers or
Ia board of aldermen might have loved