New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-21


tions. Catholic France has done more for !
liberal cause in Europe than Prussia which
much more moral. and respectable. and PROM.
tant In the interest Of peace I DO not VA,
either of them TO gain anything You es,s
crush France and II you compel her 10 maj.
peace on observation-disclosures terms, you necas.s
tate another war as soon as she regains hea1..
and strength" Twenty years ago he wrote n.
remarks, 50 peculiarly significant to-day. wbi,s
follow herewith: THE Transvaal is an no
business. and will look still ugiier if the Dut.s
at the Cape are inspired with a sympathy -
their Boer cousins saw Sir Frederick Rober.,
here the other day-a keen. practical sort .,
man." There is. perhaps. less than his usgs,
prescience and sagacity in the letter TO Mor..
which. starting from the fact that some diot.
mat has described his correspondent as ats,
first man in our profession" urges him % 4,
everything possible to prevent the outbreak !,
war. and, after much theorizing on the stBs.
ton, reaches this climax. IF you cannot sus
coed in preventing the greatest calamity tia,
can befaII the world your diplomacy is uothB,
and your life failure. even though you a.,
Ambassador at Paris or Constantinople." Fq
once Jowett forgot that
There's divinity that shapes our en1a
ROugh-hew them how we will
but this is the only instance in the volume d,
a serious lapse into a purely academic way o.
thinking and We may fairly say that in his lie
as in his letters such lapses were rare It is m.
surprising TO find him saying. Having read
over this letter am almost ASHAMED to send
it," One is glad it was sent, and preserved Il
only for it's illustration Of the candor which with
Jowett in writing to his friends. was every
thing. They priced it. When he brought his
Foa fNafr
them he gave them help The Marquis OF Lans
downe. Lord Salisbury Lord Cross and othery
must have been grateful for the luminous and
practical letters on Indian affairs which are
printed in this volume. letters not always r.
suIting in the adoption of the measures they ad
vocated, but of great value to the recipients
nevertheless. We would be glad TO quote from
them, but must find room instead for fss
fragments of personalia in the miscellaneou
section. notes invaluable coming from az
observer so capable and so just
paid nv annual visit to TennysOn last week
Shall I tell you about him? This year he has
written nothing but short piece called Boa
dcea," in a very wild peculiar metre With lcng
lines and innumerable short syIlab}es- II g
very fine, but too strange to be popular He had
been ILL., and greatly suffering and depressed
fear The more see Of him the more / respect
his character Notwithstanding a superficial II
ritabiIity and uneasiness about all things I
have a pleasure in repeating this about him
because 1 find he is so greatly mistaken By
those who don't know him or only know hin
a little No one is more honest, truthful manly
or a warmer friend; but he is as open as the
day and like a child. tells TO any chance conner
what is passing in his mind he dlslIAes
Byron but speaks very generously and warmly
of Wordsworth The subject on which / think
he is most ready 70 cOnVerse-sonetlmeS over
pfpe-is what do you thinkD future state Of
which he always talks with a passionate con-
viCtiOn He is the Shyest person l ever knew,
feeling sympathy and needing IL 70 a degree
quite painful. Please do not repeat this 70 the
vulgar who can never be made TO understand
pany such powers as he possesses should not
ten il to you if I did not think you would COM
prehend it.
There is a beautiful reference to Matthew
Arnold. written shortly after his death He
was one of my frmest and dearest and best
friends Every year 1 had higher opinion OF
him. No one ever united 50 much kindness and
light heartedness with so much strength De
was the most sensible man OF genius whom
have ever known. and the most free from per-
sonaIity and his mind was very far from being
exhausted" letter TO Mrs Dyer, whose hus-
band had Joined the faculty OF Harvard. con-
tains this passage. t look back also with greai
pleasure to the career of four other Americans
in Oxford-Parker. Richardson, poor Brearley
and Pearsau Smith-the only ones as far as /
remember whom We ever had 1 wish there
were more of them" But the lines on which
we would close this brief account OF the Let
tiers" are the following: Il insist as strongly as
ever that we must make the best OF persons
and circumstances. and put them together and