New-York tribune., 1900-11-25


etchngs in Illustration of Grimm. This MS.
was written when Ruskin between nine and
! ten years of age.
| James SPEEDING. the friend of Edward Fitz-
| gerald and the biographer of Bacon, did not
wish even to be called the advocate of Bacon.
An acquaintance remembers him saying that
he had approached his subject with perfectly
unbiased mind not knowing in which direction
| the evidence would take him, and that he
! led by the evidence he met with to form the es-
innate he did of BacOn's character. He added
that he had tried to be perfectly impartial, and,
! if possible to give the benefit of the doubt TO
| the other side. He had not started with the
| slightest wish intention of ''whitewashing
| Bacon.
WAR as Moral Medicine is the title of an
article which Professor GOldwin Smith has pre-
pared for 1.-The Atlantic" He does not think that
| war is desirable stimuant to the physical
and moral energy of a nation
| This glimpse of Froude a member Of the
TOxophite Society is to be found in anOny
1H%G Words Another of our DAILY daily companions
was Anthony Froude with his slight stOop, and
soft dark eyes. looking at you with almost a
woman's sweetness How earnest We all were
over our archery. remember the delightful
scorn in Mr.. Froude's voice when he told us
that lady had just asked him if he still played
at archery. No. indeed. we did not do any
thing frivolous play at archery; prac-
tised it, and graveIy compared our scores, though
frequently we would unbend to have matches
among ourselves. / remember we'll sitting next
Mr.. Froude at dinner one evening. and We were
talking about novels. he said they ought to be
amusing and end happily; if he ever wrote
one the hero and heroine should he rich and
beautiful and marry. and live happily ever after.
Years after he did write a novel. The Two
Chiefs of Dunhoy." and it was one long tragedy.
In some "reminiscences of him which appeared
lately he was described as stern; he must have
altered strangely from his old pleasant. courte-
Gus, genial ways"
An amusing story is told by Mrs. Duncan
Stewart of meeting with F'roude in July. 1880
She asked Mr. FrOude what she should reply
to Mr.. Tennyson if he asked her what she
thought of his last wretched poems "Ch. say
Blessed Sir would l presume" returned
Froude
just and touching tribute to a good man fs
that paid 10y Mr.. HOwells in 'Harper's Monthly
to the late Professor Child who in world
where so many people are grOtesquely mistallei,
most fifty named For no man. adds Mr..
Howells. ever kept here more perfectly and
purely the heart of such the kingdom OF
Heaven is of than Francis ]. Child. He
then in his prime, and like to recall the out
ward image which expressed the inner
happily as his name. He of low stature
and of an inclination which never became stout
but what you most when you
him was his face of winning refinemant-very
regular, with eyes ALWAYS slassed by gold
trimmed spectacles. straight, short. most n
Sltlve nose, and beautiful mouth with the
sweetest smile that ever beheld and that was
as wise and shrewd as it sweet In time
whtn every "ther man was more or less bearded
he was clean -shaven and of a delightful fresh
ness of coloring. which his thick sunny hair.
clustering upon his head in close rings. admir-
ably set off. believe he never became gray.
ana the last time / saw him. though he
broken then with years and pain. his face had
still the brightness of his ineXtinSuiShabIe youth
1t is well known how great Professor
ChildS g. rnOlarshiD in the branches OF his Har-
ward work. and how especially. how uniquely.
effective il was in the study of English and
Scottish h&lIIdry. u which ne gave So many
years 0f his life He poet in his mature,
and he wrought with passion well as con-
summa:t. knowledge in tha ochieveD,ert Of az
monumental task any American has per
formed. But he might have been indefinitely less
than he was in any intellectual wise and Vet
gcntlencss and the goodness which in him were.
as delicate and inviolable as that of Long
fellow himself"
Mime. Sarah Grand says that in her youth shr
wrote fiction. verse and essays. THE ESSAYS"
she declares. ARE very funny. chiefly marked
by the cOmmonplaces OF the theory of life which
are almost ridiculous SchOpenhauer.
Then" adds Mime. Grand. Il began to think"
The late Max MILLER had no high opinion Of
MIR. Gladstones studies in Greek subjects In
letter dated lSIl and lately printed he refers
to the stateSman'S ''Homerc SynChrOnism': Il
looked at G.S boOk-it is very disappointing. So
great man. so imperfect n scholar, He has
no idea how shaky the ground is which he
takes his stand. The reading of those ethnic
names in the hieroglyphic inscriptions varies
with every year and with every scholar. l do
not blame them-their studies and must be
tentative, and they working in the right
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