The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-09

magnetism"
| is57-pefeoted as member OF PR
| lament for oxford City
| 1893 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FIRST
editor of The Cornhin Magazine" re.
! naming at the desk till March. 1862.
and making great success OF the
! periodical. though Trollops says II
! was n position for which he was
hardly fitted. either by habits or tenn
! permanent"
! 1865 december 2I-Found dead in
his bedroom Ut ? Palace Green. Lon
don lis medical attendants at
tributed his death to eftusion on tho
! brain They added that he had u very
! large brain. Weighing no less than
9S l.? ounces. He thus died of the
! complaint which seemed to trouble
| him least.'-Camden Hotten
go-to what. ! don't know-but
| TO Gods next world: 1t is His. and
! He made IT. One PAGES up and down
| the shore yet awhile. and looks to-
ward the unknown ocean and thinks
! OF the traveller whose boat set sail
YESTERDAY, Those We love can but
walk down to the pier with us-the
voyage we must make alone."-W. NJ
| Thackeray.
"Goiinth" Thackerny. What He Looked
and Wnsj Striking Appearance
Plus Lovable Traits.
Who misses or who wins the prize.
| Go lose or conquer. as you can.
| But. ii you fall, or You rise,
Be each, pray God. a gentleman
w. NJ r
Now the school verse at the Epis-
co7al High School of Virginia.
William -dakepeace Goliath, white
o,I Ill
Couch.
He has the appearance of colossal
inlant-smooth. white. shiny. ringletty
hair. flaNen, alas, with advancing
years: a roundish face with a liz; g
dab of a nose, upon which it is a
perpetual wonder how he keeps his
spectacles: sweet. but rather piping
voice, and very tall, slightly stoop-
Ing iigure.-John Lathrop Motley
What misfortune it is to have a
broken nose like poor. dear Trackeray,
He wou have been positively hand.
some and is positively ugly in con-
sequence of it. John and his friend.
Nenables. broke the bridge nf il when
they were schoolboys playing to-
Sether-Franc's Kemble.
He is big fellow. soul and body;
of many Sits and qualities (par-
ucularly in tho IIogarth line. with a
dash of Sterne superaddcd) OF enor-
nous appetite withail. and very un.
certain and chaotic in all points ex-
! cept his outer breeding. a biz,
fierce. weeping. hungry man. not d
, strong one.--Thomas CARLYLE.
thought him, with his great
ehight' his spectacles. which gave him
very pcdanic appearance. and his
chin always carried in the air, the
most pompous. supercilous person |
had ever met, but lived to alter
that op Mon, and in very short
time Such an unsophisticatcd,
gentle hearted creature he was!--Ray-
| ard Taylor.
! ! regard him as one of the most
tender-hearted of human beings, who,
| with an exaggerated contempt for the
! foibies of the world at large would
! entertain an almost equally exag-
| gerated sympathy with the joys and
troubles of individuals around him.
! Anthony Trollope.
He was hon vivant; fond of n nice
/ little dinner, connoisseur of wines.
Inc devotee OF good cigar, willing
f, receiver of many little pleasures
! which an ascctic Judgment would pro
nounce wasteful and slothful No
reproach of excess of erossness OF
any kind attaches to his character
His pleasure was as innocent
! as that of Colonel Ncwcome when he
+ visited the smoky depths of Bohemia
/ with young Clive.--Wliam II. Ride
I ing.
/ My conviction was that beneath an
( occasional affectntion of cynicism
/ there was tenderness of heart which
/ he was more eager to repress than
exhibit that he was no idolator OF
rank in the sense in which Moore was
| SAID dearly TO love n lord, hut he had
! his hest pleasures in the society of
( those In his social positlon-men OF
I letters and artists-and that. how
evor fond OF the fun flow of Lon
/ don talk" his own home was the
! centre of his fectlons.--Charles
| Knight.
He was strong with strength that
! was calm. majestic by its ease and
| extent as the force of splendid
| stream FIawthorne's figure and air
has been described as '''modestIv
grand; and the observation. 1t occurs
to me, applies exactly to Thackeray
Indeed. ha 9 often been struck
| with the idea that the two men must
have affected society much In the
same way. and by the same mental
and physical qualities. Like Haw-
| thcrne. Thackeray wandered lonely
rs cloud" cloud. it should be
h"''' ana renieNpereu, with silver
lining Blanchard Jerrold.
He shocked Charlotte Bronte sadly
by the fashion OF his talk on literary
subjects The truth is. her heroics
aroused his antaeonism He declined
10 pose on pedestal for her admir-
alton, and with characteristic con.
trerietY Of nature seemed to be tempt
ed TO say the very things that set
Miss Bronte's teeth on edge and at
| fronted her ideals He insisted or
discussing his hooks very much a.
clerk In bank the ledgers he had
to Keep, But all this was an affec-
tation. TO which he was provoked BY
what he considered Charlotte's high.
taihtin She wanted to persuade
him he was a great man with mis-
sion He. with many wicked tests
declined to recognize the mission
Sir George Murray Smith
lie was so much greater. so much