New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30

Thus the note of sympathy, OF pity, escapes the
usually sneering historian. But he cannot be
swerved from his conviction of the Kings utter
incapacty to govern England. Between the
England that James thinks that he rules-an
imaginary England-and the England of fact.
here is a great gulf fixed. II consider His
Iajesty" the writer observes. "a good man
rong placed; the function Of him was to be a
cboolmaster not king: he should have been
red up vigorously to command that infrm tenn
or: there in a calm manner how beautifully
rad he taught the young idea to shoot, and been
,.spected in his PARISH" Toward Charles he
maintains the same amiable and yet essentially
hostile attitude-and paints him with the same
sure touch as in this striking passage: THE
King is Of fine, delicate fibre, too fine for his
place and would have suited better as a woman
With Queen Bess for a husband how happy II
had been, There Is a real selectness, If little
Dohleness of nature, in him. his demeanor every
where is that Of a man who at least has no
doubt that he Is able to command Small thanks
10 him. perhaps; had not all persons from his
very birth been intoxicating this lesson on him?
he has. II not the real faculty TO command, at
least the authentic pretension to do It, when
latter OF itself will so far in this world The
hsures that surround the two kings are painted
brilliantly their masters. Sometimes
there is a sketch that embraces more than one
model. as when the famous Parliament OF
Tears is described in the reign Of Charles, or
the fight of the Gunpowder Plot suspects" is
narrated in the reign of James This latter
fragment is very effective in its CONCESSION and
rapidly We give it intact follows
Faux lies in stern durance austere, lynx
eyed Judges round him, with their racks AID in
terrogatories their feline lynx eyes, as il were
all pupil together. dilated into glow Of rage
and terror able to see in the dark. Threescore
Apostolic young gentlemen ride with the speed
of EPSON through sumberng England into
Warwickshire, designing as they profess. to
hunt there The Warwickshire hunt, ascer-
tanning how the matter is. swiftly disslpates H.
self again, with terror lest they themselves
prove cozened foxes, and experience not what
the hunter, but what the chased fox in these
circumstances feels The threescore Apostolic
young gentlemen have TO gallop again for life.
for life; the Warwckshire Posse Comitatus gall
loping at their heels. And on the edge OF War
wickshire. at Stephen Littleton's house, o
Heavens while the poor fellows dried their gun
powder it caught fire, scOrched two Of them al
most TO death, or into delirium. And the others
stood upon their guard hunted human
fruculences chased into their last lair might;
and Sheriff and Posse had a dead lift effort TO
make and their faces are grmed with powder
smoke bathed in sweat and faces lay grim.
mnatory in the last death aleness in Stephen
Ilttleton's house there; and they were all killed
or else taken wounded and then hanged and
headed And horror, wonder and aWe-struck
voit.e OF thanksgiving rose cOnsentaneOus from
broad England.
The list of individuals portrayed in these
rages is long. Laud, Essex, Sir Edward COKE
Speaker Finch. Jenny Geddes. John Hampton
Lady Fanny Howard Queen Henrietta Maria.
Montrose Raleigh Somerset, Bacon Cromwell
and a dozen others are set forth brieny put eIo-
quentIy and there are even picturesque, some
what patronizing but striking portraits OF
Shakespeare and Cervantes. A footnOte informs
ms that when Carlyle read Speddng's Life OF
Lord Bacon he modified his bad opinion OF the
man 10 a slight extent, but the sinister lines in
the portrait in this book do not deprive II OF us
value This new Lord Keeper, hnd, he says
writing of the day when the Great Seal was de-
liy6red 10 Bacon lis ffty-four years or age ana
the nigh topgalant Of his fortunes. fruit OF end
less Industries and assduty tit to attain the
amarantb crown and cap Of immortality is now
attained There rides he sublime, win purse
sod hie seal. shall have the beattude Of sealing
into authenticity the behests OF George NhHeIs
and James Stuart the Dread Sovereign Next
wear they make him Baron Neruam. Ihere
rides he for the present, with his Whlte run
with his fringed velvet cloak and steeple nat
and Iiquorish viper eyes; very prosperous
man Undoubtedly most hot, seething.
fermenting piece Of Life with iquorlsh viper
eyes: made OF the finest elements, beautiful
KIND OF man, if you will; but OF the earth.
earthv: a certain seething. ever-fermentine pru~