The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-05

proof which she received of her. correct
reading Of public necessity: but from
ordinary insufferable cOnceit she was
preserved by her untiring efforts for
humanity.
Harriet Martineau's success was
tempered by a great sorrow, which,
happening before her fathers death.
influenced her entire life A young
Unitarian minister. a classmate of her
brother James, who frequently spent
| his vacations at Norwich greatly adj
mired Harriet, but hesitated to ask
/ ner TO marry into a. life of poverty.
| When the Martineaus lost their prom
erty, however, he became engaged to
Harriet, but the overwork attending
the care Of a. large church in Man
chester brought on brain fever which
resulted in an unbalanced mind. His
death shortly after made painful i'm
preston upon the girl of "a, which
time never effaced.
After her Illustrations of Political
Economy" had sold well up in the
hundred thousands, and her Tales
Upon Taxation" THE Poor Laws
Free Trade" "Anti-eorn Laws ssFor-
est and Game Laws" Bills Of Ex-
changey Slavery" Polish Exile"
Military Hygiene Drainage in Ag-
riculture," Strikes and OverpoDuIa-
HllEilJIlSfldI
cess, she was besieged by every hob
byist in England Members of parIia-
ment and public peTsDnages who
wished their grievances aired in fic-
ton sent her statistics and memoranda
until the postmaster notified her that
she must send for her share of the
mail, for it could not be carried with
out barrow" All this at time when
the author was but 30 years of age.
i have had no spring" she comment
ed, but that cannot be helped now.
had now, by 80 years of age.
ascertained my career, found occupa-
ton and achieved independence. =
Any one to whom that happens by 80
years of age may be satisfied; and /
waG so.''
Two years after, she sailed to Amer
lea to recuperate from the prolonged
strain of writing thirty -four volumes
in about two and a half years. Dur
ing her two years stay in this country
she studied the institutions of the peo-
pie. She seemed TO gain a clearer in
sight than does the average hasty
traveller, and the results Of her OBJ
servations are not as derogatory as
those Of the superficial tourist In her
volume, Society in America" she ad-
vances the theory that the Americans
may always be trusted to do the right
thing in time. Of American manners
she says: They are the best 1 ever
saw and these are seen to the great
est advantage in their homes.
They have been called the most good
tempered people in the world. and I
think it must be so. = I mag
inc the practice of forbearance redui-
site IN republic is answerable for
this pleasant peculiarly" The manu-
script of her other work on America.
called Retrospect of Western Travel
was presented in 1892 to the Drexel in
stitute of Philadelphia by Mr.. George
w. Childs.
One Of her greatest accomplishments
was her translation and condensation
Of the Philosophy of Auguste Cornte'
Her SimplificatiOn of his rather YER
bose work was so successful that it was
translated back into French and used
as textbook of pOsitivism. while the
original Work lad merely a curious
value for libraries and bibliopolists.
Meanwhile, Harriet Martineau twice
refused government pension, pre-
ferTing to support her blind mother
and incorporate brother by her own
exertions to receiving from the gov
ernnent money which she had not
earned.
A few years later she built herself
cOzy gray stone cottage at Ambleside
where she worked indefatigably, cheer
ed by the congenial society of Words
worth, Emerson, Coleridge, Macready
Southey, Lytton, Hallam. Liandseer and
a host Of other bright minds. She en-
joyed above all things a duel Of wit
with the inimitable SYDNEY Smith
whose voice, she declared, sounded
like the great bell Of st. Paurs' and
made the use Of her ear-trumpet quite
unnecessary. Hawthorne said of her
conversational powers.
She is the most continual talker I
ever heard. It is really like the bah
bling Of a brook, and very lively and
sensible, too; and all the while she