The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-11

out life that a man may do an Immense
deal Of good n he DOES not care who gets
the credit Of IT," While staying in Paris
IN November. 1863. our author met Prince
CEartoryski. who said. speaking Of Poland.
that the instruction then going on would end.
IL no Intervention took place, in the destruc-
tion OF tho upper class OF Poles. but that In
twenty years there would be new wealth and
new leaders. During the same visit to the
French capital Charpcntier. the publisher. de-
scribed to him the misery OF France before
1915, when women Of the better class went
about with clouted dresses and apartments
wore to be had for almost nothing. In his
childhood. C~harpentier said. he had seen the
Emperor walking up and down under the perl
style OF the Tulleries with an eye like an
eagle. or like melting metal" About the same
time the ~well-known journalist Scherer dlned
with our dlarist and spoke much OF the divorce
Of intellect and social position which was then
80 strange q feature in French society and re-
mains 90 to this day.
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Again. In Paris. in January. 1854. our author
called on Nine. Cornu. q lady mentioned In
Rename "Feuilles Detachees." He asked
Nine. Oornu, whom he knew to be sinRularly
well informed. to what she attributed the
Mexican war. She replied: First, to tho ro-
Muubi AanCy VI bu0 emperor bBCOnuiy, W Juo
Rmperor's desire to establish a counterpoise to
the United States: thirdly. to the deluslve
representations made by Mexican exiles."
The visitor then inquired why so few French
men OF merit had Joined the imperial Govern
ment. She said that the Emperor did not take
the right course after the coup d'6tat. He
ought to have drowned all the people who had
assisted him In It: that Is. he should have
given them money and sent them away. He
had not done 30. and ever since they had kept
him In q circle Of iron. letting him see no one
but their own set, and he was always COM
planning OF the want OF capable men. He was.
she said. "despotio In principle but not in
practice. Essentially r6peur and melancholy.
he dreams in the Tuileries OF tho fresh trees OF
Switzerland. He is By no means false, but
essentiellement pilote. Hence. such transac-
tons as the session OF Savoy and
Nice" Dining. subsequently. with Mich
elet. our author talked long with Taine. who.
rs examiner for st. Cyr. was then making a
three months circuit in the provinces every
year. He spoke much Of Nine. Bopdrv. which.
he said. was a perfect photograph Of the con-
dition OF the French provinces, about which he
thought as badly as possible. He said that the
country population called all the ideas by which
the intellectual men Of the capital live Phrases
des avocdtS de Paris" They cared only TO make
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II any one made the pate only q possibility In
stead OF o certainty he was. in their eyes. q
monster. 1t was about this date that Nine.
Cornu repeated q saying of the Empress Eu-
genie about Remains book. The Life of Christ"
1T will not hurt those IN believe in Jesus.
and to others It will do good" The En-
press's judgment was confirmed by q story
then going about Paris OF An old General. Vol
talrean In opinion, to whom some OF his family
read the Vie de jesus on his deathbed. After
getting pretty well into the book he said:
"Enfn IL ctait Dieu." sent for the priest. and died
reeonciled to the Church. This reminds our
tiers about asermon by Blenkinsop in proof OF
Christianity which transformed a very ortho-
dox friend OF his into q perfect atheist.
In February. 1884. we find the record Of q
dinner in London with Charles Buxton. He
mentioned that. in the published conversation
between the Emperor Nicholas and Sir Hamil-
ton Seymour. there were two suppressed pas
saRes. Nicholas said that the Sultan was
like a bear Just about to burst. and that there
was no good putting musk to his nostrils. T"
And again, you may speak OF the throne in
England as being safe. but ], you know. sit
upon a volcano" According to Lord Heytes-
bury. the same Czar rallied him when he was
, Minister at the court OF St Petersburg about
the opposition OF the English Tories to the Re-
form bill. If I were King Of England" said
Nicholas. IT would give my assent to that bill
| without the least hesitation" On March 6
| Of tho same year took place the vote In
Convocation at Oxford on Jowett's salary
as professor Of Greek. which the ortho-
dox party succeeded Ia keeping at f40
a year to punish him for his heresies. 1t was
| on this or a similar occasion that some ono OF
Jowett's friends said: Il think we have q fair
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salary. because the country clergy came up in
such numbers the other day to vote against the
improvement Of the curriculum that they will
hardly be at the expense Of coming IN again sc
soon." Trust them for that" replied an,
other. They'll think that education is q bad
thing. but that justice is q worse. and they'll
como in Scores" Not long afterward our
author met at dinner Frederick Elliott and
Grote. They talked about public men specu-
lating on their information. Frederick Elliott
said: well. in oil the years 1 have passed in
the Colonial Office. 1 think I only once DOS
sessed a piece OF information which I might. II
I had so pleased. have turned to money. wa
with my chief one day in 1855. whom o cabinet
box came in. which he opened. and. glanc-
ing at the contents. said to himself
.Seebach. Peace Sc that I knew forty
eight hours before the rest Of the
world that the Russian war was at an end.
Grote. who. it will be remembered. was Q
banker. said that. on the Stock Exchange. true
information might often be as mischievous tc
it's possessor as false. and quoted the case Of
Cavour. who lost money by specializing on the
perfectly correct information that war had
been decided upon by France in 1910. Grote'i
statement was mentioned afterward by the
diarist to Kinglake. h said that. on the occaI
sion referred to. Cavour had lost money be
cause his information was not correct, AnC
then repeated an anecdote illustrating how thu
French Government, In $40, halted between
was representing England. In Paris. After.
long conversation with THEIRS, when the dis
height. he said: We'll. an / to report tina
you said thot, In such and such a. eventual
say that" answered ThierG. SAY you read i
in my countenance."
Dining at MI. Seeley's In July, 1894, our Au
MManuin ~ enho Inrnnnr mi ihnt nc a rnmfh hI