The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-15

reduction. Trinity Hau Theatricals.
lapse 81 years, Re-uniouiSts, Lamb
preacher. Temple classics .'''' R96smiaa 1
Iempleur temporis acu Wigs on the
green LinColu's Inn Back again IN
camera. Charles his friend Shelley
EupoeucaI. Noetcs Ambrosinae. Cole
man CautOT. only a name. On a door
post. Happy thought who's that a.
calling? FarcicaI drama Important
and immediate. Mystery, Moral Un-
certain. Next please"
AS 7 write this there comes TO me the
news of the death Of my old college &c
quaintauce and friend Of later years,
Canon Anger. Wei do remember
him as a retiring undergraduate Of
Trinity Hail. I'm order TO enlist his
services as an active member Of the
Amateur Dramatic club. of which
was then president and stage manager,
/ called on him at his rooms la college.
II found a fraiI, delicate. old young
man who appeared TO me at that time
reserved, nervous, cautious. but so fun
Of sly humOr, so amusing in CONVERSE
ton. and with so engagingly courteous
a manner that I was drawn TO him at
once. He never became a member Of
our club, but rarely missed q perform
snce during term time. Then came the
parting Of the ways, and ii was not for
many years after that we met again,
when he was a distinguished eCclesias-
tic and acknowledged htterateur, and I
mas making my way In light literature
and eDhemeral drama The links that
bound as, besides those Of -'auld aC-
quaintauCe, were our appreciation OF
a certain kind Of humOr, expressed by
pen and pencil our affection for Charles
Lamb, and our love for that other Won
"a FrfN
never wrote to me without telling some
good story. making some suggestion for
q picture i'm Punch. or giving me some
bon mot OF his own, Occasionally
very. occasionally, he would write re-
GREETING some line, as IL appeared to
him, MI Punch had taken in relation
TO any particular question of the day
that interested him. Explanations fol-
lowed, which were invariably mutually
satisfactory, for he was no bigOt; and
not only that, but ne was one OF the
kindest, one Of the most thoroughly
charitable Gin the true ana widest
sense}, and brOadest minded men on all
subjects. and, s an eminent ecClesias-
tic of the Church OF England, specially
in religious matters, that ever I have
met. Peace be unto him, and so fare
well. old friend.
The mention Of The Master Of the
ton with that historic home of chiv-
airy. law and literature, and from time
70 time the temporary abiding place
of laWlessness, sWash- buCkleTing. and
more modern FOWdyism. AS a lad OF 10
coming up in vacation time from Cam
bridge I saw a considerable amount Of
Temple life as it was at that time not
as, so I am Credibly informed, il is
now, both by day and night. There
were breakfast parties (on Sundays,
beginning al III or later, and continuing
till past p whereat there was a wealth
Of musical entertainment vocal and
Instrumental which at last I believe
attracted the attention of such of the
authorities as resided I'm the Temple
and caused the issue of a notice to quit
10 more than one tenant. The notices
we're Withdrawn, I suppose, on prom
Use of amendment, and on the most
plain undertaking being entered into
that Sundays. specially during church
hours. should be strictly and decently
observed, that is as TAR as outward
semblanCe went. Gradually, L believe.
these gay bachelors and non-studioUs
tenants were got rid of. and the
wicked CeaEiug from troubling the
DeucheFS were at peace. or as merry
little Templar expressed it,, when on
moving 20 lodgings westward ne de-
scTibed his new diggings' far away
from any interference Of law officers,
as a place where the Wigsed cease
from troubling"
had always. that is from vacation
times during my Cambridge career.
raffectiOuated' the Temple, but an ad-
verse fate decided that iB going TO the
Bar I must so via LiucOin's Inn. 4
friend of my fathers was TO undertake
ms tutelase, and he was at LincoIn's
Iuu- ergo I was TO read i'm Mr.. Tom
BOurdilI0u's chambers, and be entered
as q student Of that Inn. However.
when called to the Bar, I went for
chambers 20 the Temple, where, after
awhile. my friend, Charles Coleman,
then iu practice as a barristeT, and now
sitting as a county court judge I'm the
north of England, kindly let me share
his room and one-fOurth of the serv-
ices OF aU old clerk named Shelley, in
Pump court The ancient Shelley, a
name p0eticaliy suggested. was quiet
shamoliHH serYitor who always seemed
10 be going about everywhere i'm slip
peTs. He was not communicative to
callers, and. being rather "a hard nat
10 crack he was known in chant eTs
as "Crab-Sheiley. Charley Coleman
was q capital companion, and an in
duleeut landlord. We would have ca
rousals together. I'm the best OF COM
uauy. not in our chambers, but at GER
tain c0nvivial haunts, and as he was
possessed OF delightful tenor voice.
and had a charm of manner in singing,
he was much i'm request as a vocalist
plus boon companion at all our B0he-
milan dinners and suppers. There were
some Joyous nights at the old Arundel
club out of The Strand. COlemau's rem
deriug Of Captain Morris jOvial anna
tory song
no matter what color
I drink 20 the eyes
That weep when u weep
When I laugh. laugh replies
was something which once heard,
may saw could never he forgot ten