The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-28
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The story Of MI. Con way life, told by
himself, shares with tho recently PUBLISH
I'd letters OF General Lee. the distinction
of being the most notable piece Of bio
ara mica / work That the past season has
brought forth. 1tfit! is tho issocla Ions
and personal relationships, that 4 nun
establishes which help 70 make his 5lifo
worth hcarIf1g about, tho lives. Of few ,'
fnat, o,,t 81 lofty official life, have been
'ao tnemora BID US that OF tho subject Of
this book. Mr.. Conway i friendships
were with tho great OF his time, wit
Thackeray, Gladstone. Burn Jones,
:DisraelI, palmerston, Holmes, HaW thornc,
Theodore Parker and many others. IL
deed, there were few men who's q qu;.l.l-
lance fswas well worth having, whom. III
the course OF his long life, he did not
come to know. Al Mr. Con way was persoii-
ally 3nssoclnted with those whose names
have d commanding place in al deftlrt-
Smcnts ofsthc past hnlf cntury. An ar,
almost Inevitable result, his story is one
,ofs "a bsorbng interest s The two large vol
.umes contain not far from a thousand
pages, not one OF which. we say In high
praise. could sad van tag ously be spared
ID The opening chapters describe the ni!.s
sthor's early II fe. his saW weakening intellect
and Til. gradual changing Of IDEAS which
ultimately led him from Ntettodlsm to
SUnitarianlsm, ana which separated him
from the frlendsS and !scenes fills SyDutll.i
InMtlie emotional crisis attendant upon
$tliiss change, lionel and 4 bereft Sof lcces..
!saryg counsel, the young man turned III IA
most lnstlnctiVelys to- En- erHon. ~ Ills first
letter to the Concord philosopher is It'd
November q, 1851 Il and IN tho co urae OF it
he suys x a bout q ~ ear d go If commenced
reading your Wrlt lngs. " Isfa ave read hem
oil, ana L studied them sentence 4 by sen
1tence. I have shed many burning tearsi
over them; because y gu gain my assent
TO laws ~ Which ,Ss when s II X see how they
would aact I'M he fairs OF h life, I have
not courage enough to Fpractic IA TO this
poor, trembling letter. as Mr.. Conway
terms 1T Emerson replied 80 kindly that
tht young man was moved to write a
second and longer$lcttter, paying this
tribute to the personal tone Of u 1lerson's
communication: ~ have very many cor
but I might almost say yours
is&the onl yssil tier tina was ever wri item
to- me. y "A y year or more late when
Mr.. Conway was q student inStte Har-S
yard Dlv,nity School, he "a lied m 5nlcr-8
erson wifi. a. letter or INTRODUCED on,Rand.
tho d Wo passed 81 the afternoon together,
ma ramble around Walden pond. s That
evening the young man 5wrot to- IN his
diary: Il. May 3d:;;E The most m honorable
day d my life; spent wit Il: Rnl ph Waldo
EMERSON THAT summer, 81. being holr elessE
int the North \ Mr. Conway passed In
Concord: s reading Emerson $ books 8nad
taking walks with, Emersoni and r. ioreall.
Tho narrative Il Of these days at Harvard
also introduces, among 9th ers, the names
OF a gasslz, Long ellow, Lowell, Il Jared
Sparks, 1,heod ore$ Parker, an " Charle
Elliot N orton. Al 53s AZ u; s$3
S1n tile carly spring Of 1859, Mr., Conway
was sent to Europe III order s.st to lecture,
and pers unde the English hat the North
Emerson, he tells sus did mos
like HIS going; but gave him let tiers III to.
Carlyle and theirs. n n his first call upon
CARLYLE Mr.. Conway found his lost iii
terested In all i could tell him a bout r1.li-
Serson." for whom he appeared. to h have
the deepest personal at chmen tn. Dur
ing the next eighteen years Con way saw
much Of Carlyle and learned to love li:s6
81 t was Yimposslble,"sli he observes, wi tn
this frank, outspoken man not to enter
at once upon the great social problems
OF the hour. and FIJI their conversat tons
SCarlyleGw IVA s. Won to launch INTO liant
TRADES against optimistic visions and re-.
forms with an insight that pierced thciri
BIAS zone evening, = says our aut h.r,;
when Froude and II had gone together
to Carlyle's, and had listcn ned TO a particu-
Elarly gorous Sarraig nment of the move:
mentsS supposed TO- be # progressive we
walked away in silence. Then remark
ed ..All chat is a dreary enough outlook.
Froude answered Yes. and the worst Of
3Wha he says IL that Is true, Mr.. Con-
way relates another little incident inter-
5esting, both in a personal wa VI and for the
prophecy It contained g ' ~ hen the Union
war had nearly closed. Carlyle spoke SO
stormily against elnancipat ion that Mrs.
tCarlyle-the only other present -interrapt-;
ed him. Carlyle she said y! you n ghts
not to talk SO much bout his cause to- q
man who has suffered and made snorl-
flces for it,.'g Carlyle. who always took
his wife's reproof meekly, turned to me
and said softly: Y on will DO patient with
me-, All the worth you have pu t into your,
cause Will be returned to you personally
but tho America, for which you are hop
Ing you 81 will never y see; ana you Will
never SEQ the whites and blacks In the.
South dwelling together, as equals IN
peace, 3l ~ AN sls 45 3@s
In lndeavorlng to give even q hint 81
the, wealth OF interesting and9sSaluable
matter with which this book a. ounds rho
reviewer, to whatever length he might
allow himself to run, would be Obliged
to end with a sense tQf having discharged
his task Inadequate; and consid era tons
OF space must restrain US from further
quotation The reader OF, this autoblo-
graphy, impressed In taking It up With
tho expectation that 1t will hold out 70
him much that Is notable from tho lntl-
mate and private store- house of personal
recollection, lays 1t down With this ir,-
preston greatly sdeepened, We have hero
contemporary history in Its essence, his
tory Of that valuable sort not bullt5ul
from, q consultation OF the author ties,
but spun whole and living from the nleln-
cries of one who helped to mako itstNYet
may add that! II Mr., Conway had chosen
to withhold this book from. us. the world
would have lost much that It was well for
1T to have, and which another, be he,
never so willing, could not have fglvell US.
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