New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-19

.-..,,s forms He Is TO be seen at private views
ot the best OF those first nights which from
. ~ time occur in London. He is an agree
80. Ae,,re in society and at smart clubs. He is
~" ,her NJ Parliament with safe seat and the
,,ul Of the House. and the friendship OF
W q, the best men IN public life. With all
~. he practises law as II he practised nothing
eise.
=, may explain Mr.. Lockwood TO you II say
49,. no comes nearer 10 being the Chauncey
noau, OF England than any other Engishman
can readily name. Both men have at bottom
80, serious natures. and both on the surface are
..s serious. They seem. that is less serious
hon they really are I use the word serious In
,,s French sense; which Is. perhaps but imper-
lily naturazed in the English and American
,.,grages It has relation to the sense In
.nIch II is used by pietists and OF course 1t does
,,t mean dismal or solemn or anything or that
kind.
Nohodv would affirm either Of Mr.. Chauncey
,,,,sw or Of Mr.. Lockwood that he was solemn.
%, both do In fact take serious views Of life and
=, duty: both are very much in earnest. both
have convictions and professional and business
..mcties OF high order; and very strict bust
ness habits And neither thinks 1t necessary 70
.soress the flow Of spirits which is natural to
18th or 10 pull a long face. 70 bury in a nap
hin or elsewhere the lighter gifts which have
ian bestowed on them. Mr. Depew Is not
rorsa but better president Of the Newly ork
central because he can cOnvulse a dinner-taoe
:, an audience Mr. Lockwood Is not a worse
So, q better advocate for his light handling OF
Nsicult points nor yet for the power OF draughts-
,anship and Of cartcature which enables him
~ nj. off the weak point OF an adversary or OF a
h,rle witness or-be II said in a whisper
.ometmes Of the Judge himself
Nobody Is more dangerous than the man with
vbom you think yourself perfectly safe Mr..
lockwood tackles a hostile witness in the tone
IN which he might ask him to dinner or tell him
his latest good thing. The result is that the
witness unless he be unCOmmOnly sharp, be-
comes unconsciously and impercepuby less hos
tile and less on his guard. so that sometimes. be-
fore he knows where he is. he has given himself
into the hands Of his ever smiling and ever
watchful foe. a spectacle OF this kind Is ex-
tremey entertaining TO the spectator; less SO 10
the victim. when he has become aware
whittier the primrose path down which he has
been gently conducted really leads.
Mr. Lockwood is not an orator OF the same
stamp with Mr.. Depew when Mr. Depew Is really
at his best-which Is when he is most eerious-but
ne Is at all times an effective and sometimes
admirable speaker. The standard of speaking at
the English bar Is not high, If YOU consider TO-
rensc efforts from rhetorical or oratorical point
Of view Sir Charles Russell was perhaps the
only advocate who had the great traditions Of
Erskine Of Scarlet Of Thesger and the rest; and
Sir Charles Russell was In truth his model
and had a very distinct and original style of his
own: sometimes a style of great beauty. Blu;
Mr.. lockwood is so good all round, as Sir Charles
was. that he too takes place apart. and keeps
II, and is. think. mounting steadily higher. The
world OF London Is a more agreeable world to
live in II you know him. and even II you did not
know him YOU would find the atmosphere pleas
anter and the conversation the brighter for his
genial presence. c. W. s.