New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-16
MAX MULLERS FRIENDS.
"REMINISCENCES OF EMERSON. LOWELL
HOLMES AND OTHERS.

Professor Max Miller In Cosmopos.
America does not send us interviewers only, but
charming women pay us the compliment OF coming
over to Old country rney generally k 'an 9s%
in that shSr sp SsS w o aSS aave
anu at all ip'f Living a, OXFORD have mad the good
o e em 1r and Gows to speak OF brightest
stars only. Each of them STAYED at our mouse tor
ure while others had to be taken at one gulp often
between train For and 'he me nfS. a1d it
pleasure how completely at home they fse IN
the Of pase na The w wnen
with us the breakfasts and luncheons the teas
and shers and tine a waSs
ever.
THE EMERsONS AND THE PULPIT.
Emerson, am greyed 10 say when during rms, ms
accompanied and watched over by his devoted
fortune which overlook him in his Old age HIs
memory often failed him. but as through mist
shnsna and S' many Of his questions
have remained engraved in my oras aea
that Emerson had ceased to be an active preacher
and told him hnt rather nd e iheS his t friends
and neighbors on subjects on which we can seldom
what he had told Others that he had had enough
Of t. but he referred TO an epiS Sc IN r ms me or
verV significant at the time There was an &C.
cesiasticai leaven In our family, he said; My
in the the Unitarian community: My brother sent
by my father to Germany IL p sbN TO
ing to America. on the voyage home the ship was
it nd IN veS Of the given
At that time my brother r., said his prayers and
WoSd nas ns give be up
altosether and earn an honest living In some other
kept his VOW Something of the same kind may
h sa ss We of me ny S 10
FOR n AS So @ dS" SSs
at the time and In the place where he lived few
years study might have BEEN useful
other explorers Of the unknown seas Of religion
na w but he felt in Of the the wer
Without going first TO school to learn how, Others
PERHAPS the best sr2oPf HIM wsn and @ m lis
ness and his Courage remained undamPed by the
and poetlcal intuition had reer scope In his rhap-
sodies than 1t would have had in learned treatises
had % nothing s
not 9 their qy9Tie Inquiries l beyond
many people, particularly in America, to whom
% a hsn ny nsr
Is in them what attracts US so much IN the an
swerying loyalty to truth. far they could see
1t. He had no one to fear. no one to please. So
in America might have spoken like Emerson, and
the effect produced by Emerson was certainly like
' Another a emnest american who often honored my
quiet home at oxford was James Russell Lowell
for time United States Minister in England Hc
and q man of the world Few essays are so brim-
his essays Ny books Ms s ss
low Papers" which made him Of the leading
men In the United States, appeal naturally re
American rather than to cosmopolitan readers
But In society he was at home In England as much
I came to know him first as a sparkling corrs.
pondent and then as delightful friend
Here is the letter which began our Intimacy:
"Legacion de los Estados Unidos
de America en- Espaha,
II read with great satisfaction what YOU wrote
about jade One Is tempted to cry out with Mar
loves Tamburaine How now. we pampered fades
me good deal. and that is, the crude notion which
intelligent men have OF the migration OF tribes
l think most mems conception OF distance is very
much creature OF maps-which make Grim
80 that the fact of the old rhyme-'to dance out
OF Ireland into France looks easy They seem 10
think that the shifting OF habitation was accom-
emigrants wouldn't need tools by the way or would
buy them at the nearest shop after tloir arrival
There IL nothing the ignorant and poor cling to so
tenaciously as their familiar household utensils.
Incredible things are brought every day to America
In the luggage Of emigrants-things often most
cumbrous to carry and utterly useless In the new
home. Families that went from our seaboard to
penetrabe wilderness. carried with them all their
domestic pots and pans-even those. should be
willing to wager that needed the tinker. re-
q had written articles In THE Times show
that when we meet with Jade tools IN countries far
moved from the few mires In witch Jade is found We
admit that they carried along precious heir
looms by the earliest enigrants from Asia 10 Europe BY
same people VINO carried the tools Of their mind that
sad Ia Ia snd y America. " '-~'' " '''''