The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-29
STORIES 90 THtekERtI.
T"ld b, Neu whs kne~ Hlsa 81 an ami.
Nersar, DinneF In I.sasisa.

InNDoS. Judy ~ SONS good stor,e.
a'"nt Ihtrk~rAy Wer. told at the ThAck
cray birthday anniversary dinnsT given
nv N" I"ndon Authors club. 10 which
Ihoma' Hardy - president God SIR
tdNa-d lhack"ray, who j. cousin
~ N" novelist and vhp ~on tn. coveted
Victoria Cr"t- Tor gallantry a. the sieS.
~ I''lhI m the Indian Mutiny. presided
az IN" dinner Another 90 usin 81 the
novelist. tie Rev y ~ John Thnrk.ray.
an Et"n master Was among the guests
Mr. Edward Thacksray said that had
Iharksray lived Ia the day 81 the dinner
b" would have completed ninety min.
years. az he was born ON July IL isii.
and not. as Brewer and others state. on
August ~ During ion years his branch
~ III" ihackerayu had been a landlass
ls'opl". belonging To the strictly profess
Alnal rlaSS
I" siNtN nin" III gnIcn ur Cuilater al =
'""n'v-fonr entered the army OF navy.
hin";""n were churchmen nine were
h1Tr'>i"rs. eight were Indian civilians,
seven we're medical mon. two were Eton
masters since the days ~ ThAckeray's
great-Rrandfather. 81 years ago. who
mad To earn his living IN some honorabl.
profession 10y his s~usj. tongue or pen
the genius of William Makepeace was the
towering of a century and a half of family
culture, 81 which the beautiful after
"ihnrescenCe still blooms IN the works
~ hiS daughter. Lady Richie the author
ess OF old kansinEton.- The Story of
hllsabeth' and The Village on the Clit
SIR Algernon West said -'rharkeray
was a humOCist. satirist. historian. with
a heart like that Of q child in its beauti-
~! siml ltcity: a tender and gentle spirit.
ne loved children and never saw n school
ny nut he longed tn give him tip.
me hn"st bit Of satire ever written was
on the funeral ~ Lady Kew wish We
had time to read IL together hut only
two sentences let me repeat To live
10 ioursCDre years and he found dancing
anon the idle virgins. To have had
nearly century Of allotted time and
then be 'alled away from the giddy notes
Of Mayfair fddlc To have TO weld
your roses too and then drop out Of the
oony clutch OF your old TN gsrs a wreath
that came from \ Partisan bandbpN
IT'S people are Just A. fresh a. when
they lived because they repraaented
humanity which was always the same
Was u Thackersy'- genus that gave
HIM such an inner knowladSe Of man ,
ktnd' You all know the I'D story Of "a
Bishop IA the railway [. age with two
HaNslrr VINO We're lst4 language hCf
strictly evanselicll rs good man
he said where did you earn such . Lam
guage' Learn II governor aid he
You can't learn IT, ia "a gift Thack-
cray had the gift. There was no char
aCter that he did not WITTY and make
his own ThaCkeray knew eNery spring
In that piece OF complicated machinery
which We call life
The Rev ?. - John Thackeray spoko
of his visits 10 the novelist ~ ~ Young
street whore Vanity Fair was written
When outdoors With him Tha cksyaF Vas
always studying faces and situations
and characters They went "a picture
galleries and theatres. aud sonnet lines
GhaCN"raV would leave him IN nc pit
~ a theatre saving Now ! must leave
vuu ! must 90 md max" a A. note
II Ms a saying 81 his when they went
nu' 10 dane that he always gave boys beef.
steak and apricot omelst lie was NJ
aNl 10 every sense of ths word liberal
minded. a Liberal IN politics liberal with .
Il- rIrsa and liberal with his time shortly
after Mac lulays death he stated that
he had been asked 10 Contiuu" the great
history and he would have been quail.
ted To do 80 because he had q profound
<nowledge II the eighteenth century
But he declined the request II was
rhackerav who killed the snohberv
y early Victorian days '