New-York tribune., 1905-06-04

pains to note that IN the novels he has come
upon passages which he has met elsewhere
in another form, and to remind US that Disraelf
once delivered in Parliament as his own a fine
passage from Theirs. For Gladstone, the chron-
icer evidently felt reverential admiration.
1t seemed when talking to him that you were
the persons living in his memory and who it
were stepped out in his conversation before you:
came into light His converse ton was ike an ora
ton in miniature Its exactness its Inodulati0n m on.
its force of expression, its f0reseeingnesS OF all the
issues of ideas came at will never listened to
of color and truth, spoken with such spontaneity
and force
Herbert Spencer Mr.. Holyoake knew well from
the days when the philosopher looked like "a
young country gentleman of the sporting farmer
type" We cannot say that he gives alto
gether pleasant impression of his friend. We
gather that Spencer not above framing an
unjust and sophistical accusation, and as an
imaginary invalid he was far from attractive.
His contemporary learned never to greet him
in terms which implied that he could be
we'll An author to whom Holyoake devotes
divers pages of eulogy Harriet Martineau,
a woman whom he paints as truly chivalrc,
loyal and lofty character He says of her and
George Eliot that they grew handsomer as they
grew older, the acquiring queenly dignity
and the other stately grace a vivid chapter
Professor Newman presents him as "a gentle
man first and a Christian afterward." Carl
baldI and Mazzini appear in this record in
heroic guise. For Mazzini especially, the fiery
yet gentle Italian. the old agitator maintains
reminiscent affection.
It is to be remembered of the Italian that he
carried out his theories in personal we'll as
in the wider sense. He had little income from
his mother which he might have been ap
to London he brought three other exiles who de-
pended on his earnings aid for Others" writes
Mr.. Holyoake "and the ceaseless cost of the prop
uganda of Italian independence to which he de-
voted himself had to be provided by writing for
reviews. 1t was the knowledge all his country
men had that he sought nothing for himself,
never spared himself in toll peril, that was
the source of his influence. He wrote: We
follow a path strewn with sacrifices and with
sorrows.'" " The most abstemious of men. he
was painfully thin, and in respect to his mode
of life nothing could be more apt than these
lines:
A cheaper world know
Where he who laughs grows fat
Man but little here below
MazZini less than that
He was one of the most reticent of men
Holyoake says that his mind was fortress into
which no man could enter unless he opened the
the English people than any foreigner he has
conversed with; "he understood the English bet
ter than they understood themselves" Unlike
most so-called consprators. Mazzni strong
1y religious. Like Cromwell says Holyoake he
sought his combatants among men of faith.
His belief was passionate. He did not believe
that political enthusiasm could be created
tanned without belief in God. He seemed unable to
conceive that of duty could exist separately
that belief. Hence his motto always
God and the peopler' which limited his adherents
largely to theists and implied propaganda to
vert persons to belief in Deity before they could.
in his opinion be counted upon to fight for Italian
independence Yet there We're contradictions; but
contradictions seldom disturb passionate convic-
tions, and Mazzini himself could not deny that he
had often been faithfully served by men who were
not at all sure that God would fight on their side
if disaster overlook them. One night at crowded
Fuiham party MaZZini contending, his
wont, that atheist could not have sense of
duty. Garibaldi, who present at once asked:
What do you say to me? I atheist Do
lack the sense of duty?" "AhI'' said Mazzini play
fully You imbibed duty with your mothers milk
which not answer, but a good natured
evasion.
4 SONG FOR ST. THOMAS.
BY ETHEL CLIFFORD.