New-York tribune., 1905-05-27
II PARSONS STORIES.
The RecouectionS of an English
Radical.

REMN1scENcEs OF RADICAL. PARsoNS N
BY the Rev. W. TuckwelL NJ A l2rno' pp zoo
Cassel & Co.
Mr.. Tuckwen has story about a certain old
LADY to whom when she seemed likely 10 de-
came q clergyman to discourse Of the joys OF
heaven But she was not III as they sup
posed nor so receptive of spiritual expectation
as he was prone to offer it, and she answered;
Sir what you say may be very true, and heaven
may be a very delightful place, but-oId Eng
land for mel" Quite as hearty devotion 10
his country does Mr.. Tuckwen evince, and
part of this devotion is his passionate longing
10 remedy the woes he has found in his WORK
among the English poor, and to spread oroaa-
cast decency, comfort and education "A Id 80
mart of this volume is given to the record of his
efforts political and economic, and how thOse
for whom he has toiled feel toward him is sug-
eested In the address on laborer's card COM
ing bv most: REV and Beloved William TUCK
we'll Rugby" There is a curious interest at
tached to his remembrance of one village IN
which he found some Of his theories Of rustic
betterment worked out:
Ny entertainer here a mighty capitalist, was the
image OF King Henry VIII with great suaeuGs' das
He took me to the village school whIca s nm, ne
& MS g69S s af II aere msw OF Ana attached let
for ISd week. His tenants crested him aftectSon-
we were v" told that they loved him father
and left his house deeply admiring Four years years
afterward he was sentenced to fourteen 3e@IS Po4'
servitude for commercial frauds
Mr.. TuckweIps comment on this parsonage
who is readily identified, is less severe than one
he quotes. which was pronounced by worthy
but unframed country minister upon rich' SELL
ish old farmer of his flock: Here lies old 3
E He never did no good to nobody ana
nobody never spake no good of he: kiver him up
and let's prache to the living"
There are many glimpses in this volume OF
Mr. Gladstone, whose name the author found IN
radical campaigning. evoked rapturOus response
everywhere All over England, he says, the rus
ito faith in the leader was pathetic. They be-
lieyed he would come like Elias to restore all
things holding in his hands free education par
ish councils, three acres and cow" TuckWells
admiration for Gladstone the orator is often ex-
pressed thus:
The Old Man sat the Treasury Bench, appar-
eHeg closed his hands crossed within his coat cuffs
"a mere bundle as 1t seemed. Of clothes Suddenly
we %as sat- tans I sS' to me- rushed off to his seat
crowded into the House and the iTw Was pwonder
ful wonderful wonderful It was professor ge5
1b RSy raptToUs svpiase caring little for the
iect which by most had long since been relesated
Into the b9 & Of ts eges azeG ike Goals % the
veics toed out its periods % s with ho91 g992
able baronet varied lively gesticulatien. secretion
Of finished phrase and epihet tossing up ana Play
Knowledge and delight in word play rolling in fig.
Ilres and calculations seal rolls in water; and
ali from a man Of eighty-four!
OF Glaastone's great rival Mr. Tuokwell has not
much to say. He mentions the stories abounding
in the neghborhood Of Hughenden. of DisraeA $
devotion his dear little wife" and recalls what
the Prime Minister said after her death to an old
friend OF both whom she had especially valued
'she was bright creature" he mused, 'she was a
bright creature She had no fears for the future,
and no knowledge OF the past; she used to tell me
| that she could remember whether the Greeks
| or Romans came first"