The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-08
DR.. CUYLER's REMEMBRANCEs.
OF Wordsworth, Carlyle, Dickens, Glad

Of Wordsworth Carlyle, Dickens, Glad
stone and Other Noted Englishmen.
Rev DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler, now re-
tired from his long service as preacher
in Brooklyn, related the other evening
at meeting of the New York geneal-
ogical and biographical society some
things he recalled of his personal meet
ings with noteworthy Englishmen,
when he visited England shortly after
his graduation at Princeton. The Tri-
bune's report is as follows:-
He first went to the famous lake
country, before the snort Of locomo-
tive was ever heard in that region" and
one morning, after spending the night
at little inn, and having received per-
mission from Wordsworth to call, he
sailed forth for the poets house. 81
found the poet in his garden" said
DR.. Cuyler, land of all the illusion
regarding the appearance Of Words
worth vanished most rapidly and COM
pletely. He looked like an old
Cumberland farmer. He wore an old
blue coat, checked trousers and waist
coat, some careless rig about his neck,
a big SLOUGH hat, and goggles on his
eyes. He greeted me cordially and took
me into his house. When he took off
his hat he looked the real Wordsworth
He began by asking me questions about
Washington Irving and Cooper and
Bryant and his friend Mrs. Sigourney.
Then, turning to a bookshelf and taking
down a volume, he said I think your
American edition of my works is the
best one / have ever seen, After a
little desultory conversation, he said:
wouldn't you like a walk?' l said it
would give me great pleasure, and to-
gether we went out of doors. You re-
member that servant Of Wordsworth,
when asked about her masters study,
replied, My masters study is out Of
doors. And so 1t was into Wordsworth's
study that we went. AS we parted he
plucked a little flower from his door
yard, and I have it to-day at home in
one of his books"
After describing his visit to Abbots-
ferd, to the cottage where Robert Burns
died, and his conversations with various
people who had known Burns, DR.. Guy
Ter told OF his acquaintance with Dr.
John Brown the author of "Rab and
Ills II llelluS, WHICH LIZ SuyleG pro-
nounced the most perfect prose thing,
in proportion to it's length, in the Eng
fish language. DR.. Cuyler met Sir
George Harvey, the artist who illus
trated 'Rab and His Friends" and he
showed the painters keen sense of
humor by relating story he used to
tell of one Scotchman meeting an old
man, who was a friend of his, and say
ing to HIM
II hear ye're to be married"
Yes" was the reply, Il wanted to
have somebody to close my Gen.
'Well," said the first Scotchman, 81
tried thot, an had mine opened"
From Scotland DIR. Cuyler went to
London, where he visited Dickens, to
whom he had note from Lucretia
Mott. ''When first saw Dickens" said
DR.. Cuyler, ''he was at work upon his
American Notes. a book which he
might just as well have never written
/ saw him in his house just off Regent
square, and he was then in all the vigor
of his splendid youth. With his buoy
ant movement and his merry laugh, he
rushed on with his talk about America
I felt that L had no right to take his
time, and as / went away he called
after me from the doorway, Tell
Lucretia Mott haven't forgotten the
slave"
81 went to see Thomas Carlyle"
continued DR.. Cuyler, ''at his house in
Chelsea, not far from the Thames AS
I entered the room. where he was 1
found him sitting at his desk with an
open German volume spread before him.
He gave me an impression of scrupulous
neatness. He was dressed almost COM
pletely in black, wore a surtout, high
collar, open at the front, and an old
fashioned black stock and looked at
first sight altogether like a substantial
country deacon appareIed on Sunday
morning to go to meeting. But his
head was the massive head of Carlyle
Over it was his iron-gray hair, well
brushed out above the high forehead.
Four of the great men 1 have met come
up to the physical standards our fancy
has set for them. These four Gladstone,