The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-09

tn" Times in preference to any other literary
or Official occupation for | enjoyed the power
it conferred OF governing public opinion. But
the moment an attempt was made to interfere
with me and to garble my articles | resigned
and fell back on the fiiiubWgh R1,e'r, which is
a sort OF pecraEo as compared with the tumult
OF the | over House"
Henceforth the entries in the journal are
fuller. and. therefore. more Interesting. Under
date Of Jan. 10. 1855. we read The great
talk Cf the day is Macaulay's volumes third and
fourth Of his history. which has. upon the
whole. disappointed people. Expectation had
been raised too high: twenty-five thousand
copies were sold the first day. weighing sixty
one tons. and all the world set to work to read
the book. But it wearies by the sustained ef-
fort of the style. and. having looked into some
of the authorities. / am astonished at its mac
%curacies. The blunder about SchomberG was
discovered by myself on a hint from Panizzi.
l wrote to Macaulay OH it. and he admitted
it to lie "a blemish. Sir j. Stephen said
to me that it was the most valuable and
inimitable OF books but. with all it's
brilliancy. there is a want Of temper.
of truth and OF taste about 1T which
makes me feel l had rather not have
written it The blunder referred to is a pic
AtI'S'luV lNt u .huNduItN VI iou
bcrg's burial in Westminster Abbey. whereas.
in fact. he was buried in st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral. The error was corrected in subsequent
editions. In a letter penned four days later.
Guizot observes: "Of Macaulay | will say
nothing. though | might say much. In a few
words. his work is n brilliant embroidery on
strong material. Great qualities are so rare
that. when I find them. | forget the faults He
notes. at the same time. that he is reading
Philip H.. and considers it inferior to Mr..
Prescotts previous histories. and. above all.
much below the grandeur Of the subject.
Philip ii. and William III. are the leaders and
the types OF the two differen. policies which
have divided Europe since The sixteenth
century"
On Jan. n. 1853. the journal records a visit
to the Due d'.Aumale's house at Twickenham
At dinner the Duke talked a great deal OF his
campaigns. At the Smala where Abd-el-kader
was captured he the Duke had been three
days and nights on horseback. with no inter
val but to feed. The Chasse,rs d pieds and
Iouaves were less exhausted than the horses.
Once in Africa he lost eleven men in a night
encampment in the mountain from the
severity Of the cold. The place has since been
called IL camp de In mort. All the men were
severely depressed and alarmed but they we're
made to sing the -NdrSeihdise. and. as they
descended the next morning into tn" warm at
m"sphere OF the plains. the change was most
striking. On one occasion, when Bara-
quay dHilliers was threatened by a
troop OF Arabs. he wound tho reins OF
his horse around the stump Of his lost
arm and drew his sword with the other hand.
This action had a great effect on the men. who
instantly repulsed the enemy" The diartst
goes on to relate that the Duke talked a
good deal about his family spoke highly OF
Inc military tniaDta IF tho Pnrant uhn .r,,
kept in the shade 10y Louis XIV. from jealousy
on behalf OF the Due de Maine. 1t was the
Regent who collected the Orleans gallery OF
pictures. His son was an ~ascetic. and wanted
10 burn all the nudities. At last EGalitG whom
the Duke always called mon oroudpty'e, sold
them. but not to the English purchusers-to
some middleman-I think a connection Of the
present Delesserts. though OF u different
name. Louis Philippe was very fond OF
talking TO his sons OF the traditions OF
the Orleans branch. They have the most
minute knowledge Of their own history
and OF the history OF all the titles and estates.
The third title OF the Orleans branch was
Due de Na'ois. because ons Of the appanages
was in the Nalois. The King wanted 10 give
one or his sons that title. but was afraid. az il
was supposed to be unpopular. Yet | remem-
Der in 1880. when the revolution occurred, an
attemT IT was made to persuade the people that
Louis Philippe himself was not Il Bourbon. bur
n Nalois. The Due dAumale sai that the
Nalois princes had their merits. but that they
had never produced two such sovereigDs as
the Bourbon Kings Henry ". and Louis NV.
Nothing could be more animated and ]iustruc-
tive than the Due d'Aumale's conversation"
We find another note worth reading in the
journal. under date OF Jan. ~. 1885: Break
tasted at Lord Stanhope's with Macaulay.
Gladstone and his wife. and Lord Stanley. A
breakfast party Of that size and that quality ia
certainly as perfect an occasion Of table talk as
ever existed. but It is nxhaustiug from the
brilliancy OF the performance. Macaulay
coughed a good deal, and looked III. but talked
as usual. He began with art. II was a re-
proach 10 connoisseurship that such an inor-
dina'e value attached TO originals and such in
difference to copies. even though one might
hardly be distinguished from the other Paint.
Ing had fortunately ESCAPED from the traditions
o! antiquity. which to this day imposed their
yoke on sculpture. and caused Canova to repra-
sent Washington in Roman armor. NJ. thought
all sculpture Unsatisfactory, especially NOM.
mental sculpture. which goes beyond tho eflev
OF the person. A good deal was said Of the
duration and emo'uments Of office. NJ. thought
the salary OF q minister AZ E5.OOO a year under
the Georges equal to E2O,OOO a year now, The
revenues OF the See a. Canterbury doubled he
tween the Reformation and the revolution ~
1858. and have more than doubled since. The
old Duke OF Newcastle and Lord Lansdowne
have been ministers longer than anybody else.
az intervals, for nearly half Il century. Lord
Stanley talked very little. Nothing was said Of
current politics or ot Macaulay's hook"
Here Is q reference Ia a fact hut little known
namely. that the sabbath is observed mnrh
more vigorously in the reign al Victoria than
II was in that OF her predecessor: "Mrs VII.
lters Lord Ciatendon's mother said. n I'M.
time before she died at the ago n go, thn,
no change hal taken place in her time moro