New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24

"REMINISCENCES BY WILLIAM BLAcv
From Good Words.

"REMINISCENCES BY WILLIAM BLAcv
From Good Words
In a somewhat shabby furnished room I'm, ~.
the walls there was s sIse copy q the Berlin
mer-boy and on the table a numbsr Of Fre,iercHmi..
snuff boxes were strcwn about In dingv i,,,,s
sent Win dsepy 1ed asc Mo' ne ed ana
under jaw. tufted gray hair and tufted gray and
white beard. and sunken and unutteraby s6rrow
ful eyes. returned from the fireplace whore Win
trembling fingers ne had been lighting his long cla.
pipe. and resumed his seat In front Of the rsadi,xx
Il do not think" ne was saying. in an abs.n,
kind OF way. that shall see SCOTLAND again IT,
me ii has become n sad and strange and solen,
! country that all my kinsfolk and friends ar.
gone And then there is the fatigue Of The lons
! travelling almost Impossible for me. As II ls
suffer great deal OF physical misery. and also Of
But presently he had resumed in a lighter strain.
was carly on deck and found that ali ar5Ssd
! me atmosphere. nothing that could be called
an atmosphere. but just vast immensely Of smoke
there pulsated an extraordinary ligh,-a red gsr.
that flashed up and across the skies. as 4 the
whole world were in coniagraiior | turned
and asked the nan nsd, at w ine Wheel wha, il
Dixon family OF enormous wealth Accord
Ing to popular repute; and yet there was a wild
story OF one of them. supposed to be worth nine
millions. being suddenly confronted with the ques
ton whether h. was worth nine pence story
down to Erebus and Nox: The Glasgow
kindly and hospabe folk. but their wyes-I cannot ni
resoect h,ving ever taken motto or w9msns ORES.
streets that their gowns were Just little extrsya.
f he was conn n4 o Se FsDb
people; and / got TO know something Of the west
Edward Irving and I used 70 make through tho
Trossachs. and round by Loeb katrlne. and Words.
most the indvidnai trees down by the side Of the
I water. the brown burns. the blue nils over Loeb
d hDm?"' way We '"' ''''" - ''''" :" '0''
Thc pipe is laid aside an afternoon stroll ls pro.
posed: and the old man suggests that the window
the tobacco smoke. Ills visitor would fan perform
fashioned courtesy one seldom encounters nova.
days the offer Is declined, though the trembling
the window Is raised Then he goes of to exchange
his gray woosn for me cloak and
| and in a few minutes the house In Cheyne Row Is
left behind
THE CRACK OF THE WHIP.
Now in endsayoring to place on PaPer few ?,
| the reader how immeasurably they lose in the
process Carlyle did not talk Scotch-not any Ola.
| Scotland insistence Of emphasis; then he had an
abundance of picturesque phraseoogy' and above
a wild exaggeration, It might be- or sardont:
paradox. or scornful taunt-but anyhow with
Something that sounded like the crack Of whip.
II was rather startling TO be asked, as a preim-
mary inquiry as TO what WIS afoot In the literary
us that young =, still going abou, vomit-
ing forth blasphemy and the fires of Tophet?"
young man - was not doing anything Of n,
very front rank OF English poets
Bur ~ w for he had SOMEHOW formed the In.
preston that Tennyson was being ousted from hi,
throne by the Younger men and tbs ,sppeatsd
to convince him that the banjo byrons had no'
displaced Tennyson from the affections OF the Eng
It'll ND hon 0f q
argument-an appeal TO Tennysons publishers
could not be mentioned for IN hese dayT nb g y
to convict him tat least the whpper-snappers Oh
S[Gm hRps sn to HON. %"f this f9 duson about sun
sons waning popularity got implanted n ta .1y
mind 1t is hard to say pq bongb sounds incr.d
ible cnough-that Tennyson was sensitive 10 news.
paper comment-he who ought never TO nave lookee
have made complaint to Carlyle OF the treatmen
he receiving at the hands OF some OF he ns rso
ment literally and generously accorded MIN by .
p15stR wh sFea AFTER ALL to an English auhor
the sole important thing
About certain novelists: There's that woman
they can Miss - and there's that other woman
who calls herself -: God forbid that should
read their trash but if what am told Of it be true
think their sentence would be forty stripes save
About Dsraeli: There's that man DisraeL They
tell M he is a good speaker. Perhaps DO nos
1f his that he deiyared at Glasgow year OF tive
ago and il appeared to me the greatest Jargon o.
nonsense that ever got into any poor orea'u'e'
head ,,.
Nevertheless. he was not always grumbins sn'
This Chelsea Embankment now Is about tns
cheorfulest place know Of the brlgntness .s s,s
ing: those small eager steamers putting on t,sn
way. and carrying their loads the open SKY; W.
the fresh air the nurscmais and the perambua
tors and the children.the young generation '0"'
i}ut al this point of the brats O. ladies sots
swift surprise. He had been twirng himself t roun"
the iron rail overlooking the Thames ana ,n',,St
enng every moment TO pitch himse ni 70 ~, ~,
scruff OF the neck and hauled onto the pavement,
You young rascal. do We want to throw yo''''"
That differentiation. II he is alive. must now y
a man of hve-and- twenty; one wonders where ne
and whether he knows that in his youth ne e,s sD
letters OF the nineteenth century
NO SENSE OF THE MAGIC OF PoErKi'
Carlylcs personal experience Of Germany st,ms,,
10 have been distinctly Disappointing anu ,hsrs;
he did not expressly say one somehow sa,ngh'sf
that the chief reason was conclusion n. 10
formed that the Germans did no, properly app''''
The most notable man in literature for ?" yss IA
The one man who has sho~h a., ~ cosS
that have been heaped upon it. bu' IT, a, a,
no real religion At the present day Ana VIC 90 "a
the nation that has no religion VIII CUNT
IL Was a matter OF keen regret 10 him that he d"
"Thackerays recollection OF Goethe was r rsn
and Inaccurate: Thackeray had = confuse" '
DRY of Gocthc's being a dark man. -, 49, ~
And then rs the conversation "an u ues Vchal
other German authors and when one "ar.S.'ss
lengo(f TO say which Of them one had me gir,, :.
affection for there nothing posSlh' , ~.
honest answer. though II was easily 10 %" lo' Az
that il would prove the letting In OF water, -
II did IL proved 10 be the letting IN ~ mai oo,
Waters For nd the time next Of quarter Of a" ''
That siimy and greasy Jew A. only TO eat sa'
sagcs made of loads. 49, Rad
Thundors and llghtnings ragged around me n' q.
of poor Heinrich. and struck ont az an NJ ~. ns
we-'no real fun in the Jcws-a =, nic"i s'" "
honest laughter. , , ., q,
But at last the dispensa;ion Of wrath came T" -
end -. srhe
After all let us remember that he wio"
I,orelei' And there was good-huwOr ID hls S'