The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-10
VI.

When IN London, in 1884. Holmes heard r.
wing. the preacher with whom Mrs. Carlyle had
been in love before she married her husband
HE Is" we read, "a black, savage. saturnine.
long-haired Scotchman, with a most Tyburn-
looking squint to him. He said nothing re-
markable that I can remember. and, | should
suppose, ow es much OF his reputation to n voice
OF great force and compass. which he managed
nearly as well as Macready. The charlatan he
most resembles Is Mr.. -. whose yell is. however,
instinct with a profounder impression OF vul-
Garity and insolence. Mr.. Irving and his flock
have given up the unknown tongue, and conGnc
themselves to rolling up their eyes so as to
show the whites in n formidable manner.
would ask for no better picture than hus been
been presented by these poor enthusiasts,
drunk with their celestial influences, md bab-
bling paltry inanities." Going to the opera one
night In London. he saw in the Kings box
William ". and his Spouse, and. in an opposite
box, the Duchess of Kent and her daughter, the
girl OF fifteen who was 70 be Queen Victoria.
The Princess is described as "A nice. fresh
looking girl, blonde and rather pretty. Tho
King looks like a retired butcher. The Queen is
much such n person in aspect as the wife Of the
late William Frost of Cambridge, an exemplary
milkman, now probably immortal on a slab OF
slatestonc, rs T. father, n husband. aud IL
brother. The King blew his nose twice, and
wiped the royal perspiratlon repeatedly from II
face which Il probably the largest unclvillzed
spot in England"
In n letter dated Oct. 81, 1894, Holmes an
nounces n resolution to which. hut for the occa-
sional composition OF verses, he adhered for
moro than thirty years: II have entirely re-
linqulshed the business OF writing for journals,
and shall say No, though Minerva and Plutus
como hand in hand to tear me. the Cincinnatus
OF science, from the plOughtall she hus COM
manded me to follow. How much | must learn,
how hard | must work, before / have wrought
this refractory ore into good. tough, malleable,
ductile, elastic IRON" Ho tells an old friend,
John O.. Sargent, who had asked him to
write for the NnU England Magazine.
You may suppose then. that, II | can
devote three or four hours every day to my
books. which | always endeavor to do, the
electricity for that day Is pretty thoroughly
drawn of, aud, in fact, II !, who somewhat
labor In literary parturition. were to attempt
that which Invariably exhausts my powers,
l should wrong myself for too small a matter.
No. John, n heavier burden from my own
science, II you Will, but not another hair
from the locks of pOcsy, or It will be. In
decd, an Hss's back that is broken. nm
not ashamed OF the ambition OF being dis
tinguished In my profession: but, more than
that, | have become attached to the study
OF truth by habits formed in severe and some
times painful self.dcnIal. For, trust me. the
difficulties in the Investigations OF our profess
sion, the carelcssnoss aud stupidity, often the
ob,tinacy OF patients, the cold and damp and
loathsomencss Of tho dissccting room, are ex-
cecdingly repulsiye to the beginner: and. | am
sorry to say, Nro sufficient to prevent the great
majority Of students from becoming properly
acquainted with tho science they profess to cul-
t~iVAte,"