The record-union., 1898-01-09
DEAN FARRAR.
Humorous "reminiscences From His
Last Book

/ In his last book, Men l Have known"
Dean Farrar manages to display the nice
| sense of humor with which his name has
| been pleasantly associated for many
years. A friend of his went to call upon
Carlyle one day. Just before he reached
tue door Of the old Scotch cynic he met
an acquaintance, one of the most brill
liant men in England, who had just fin
| ished a. visit inside.
How did you find Carlyle?" asked the
| Deans friend
An" lamented the man of genius, II
| find him a wreck A mere wreckl'
So the friend went in and found the
| Scotchman in much his usual mood.
You've had Mr.. with YOU" he
remarked
Yes, said Carlyle the 'mere wreck, -
and he thinks God Almighty never
made such another"
| DIR. Thompson, Master of Trinity Col
! lege, Cambridge, was standing in the
drawing room of the lodge, when Dean
| Farrar, who was just about to deliver
the university sermon, entered. The
doctors back was turned, and he evil
IDENTIFY mistook the footstep for that of
Mrs. Thompson for he said, quite can
didly, Il shall sleep frightfully," in too
evident reference to the sermon he was
about to undergo. Then he turned and
found the sermonizer in broad smile.
He attempted to eXplain-but he never
did, even to his own satisfaction.
Among the clergy attached to the
Church of st. Margaret at Westminster
was Canon Cureton, most learned Syr-
lac scholar, but given to the preaching
of long and weary sermons to the boys
of Westminster College, who were
among the regular attendants upon the
church. There was no way of amend
ing the distinguished Canon's manner;
but unfortunately for the boy, he had
a son at the school. Whenever the good
father preached too long the boys did
not wait a moment LONGER than was
necessary before getting as nearly even
as was possible under the circumstances
and thrashing the youthful Cureton
Somebody told this to Dean Trench
during the time the Canon-afterward
Bishop-W ordsworth was preaching at
st. Margaret's. The Dean drew a long
sigh and said: Il wish Canon Words
worth had son at that SCHOOL,"
When Dean Farrar was in America
he took luncheon with the Poet whittier
After the meal was over the Englishman
asked the American for a photograph
and autograph. and a conversation re-
garding the general subject Of bestowing
signatures upon those applying for them
followed quite naturally. Whittier had
already found the demand made upon
him by his countrymen growing en-
barrassing. One day when he was with
Ralph Waldo Emerson. the Quaker poet
asked the shrewder Yankee what he did
when he had a request for an autograph.
He said he used to humor them until the
letters came in hundreds, and then he
| ignored them.
But what do you do?" asked Whit
tier, when they send stamps?"
oh said Emerson, 1.-The s amps come
in handy"
From these interesting pages it is to
| be learned that the late George w.
Childs of Philadelphia was, in Dean
Stanley's words. the only living man
who, for more than half a century, had
given purely spontaneous gift to West
| minister Abbey" This was fine stain
ed glass window to preserve the mem
DRY of the English poets William Cow
per and George Herbert When Dean
Farrar told him the relation born by
the greater Milton to st. Margaret's,
where his bans of matrimony We're pub
lished and where his wife and baby
daughter were buried. Mr.. Childs caused
an appropriate window to be placed in
the church at an expense of more than
| So 600