The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-05-28 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

ANOTHER BATCH OF TELACKERAY'S  LETTERS.  The third instalment of these letters, which appears in Si'ribn.rO Maya* for June, is at once the lar,cest and the most iuter.ting, that has ;Parr trt :d. Ll'o7 2.-ftolrrfc;,;ownriotn.T.'" ronoonly Pane in mixed up. as was always the case when Thackeray wrote . he thought. not as be wished to appear to think How pleasant is thin picture of ho' former life in Paris, when he was trying to learn to draw ! •' tweet to .e my old haunt:. when I came to Paris thirteen years ago, and role believe to be a pain.r —pint after I was ruined and before I fell in love and took to marriage and writing It was • very jolly time, I was as poor as Job and sketched away most abominably, but pretty Contented ; and vve used to meet -us each other's little rooms and talk about art smoke and drink had brandy and water—That awful habit still remains, but where in art, that dear mistress whom I loved, though in a very indolent, capricious manner, but with a real sincerity .ee her for. very far off. I jilted her, I knovr it very ; but you see it was Fate ordained that 'hat marriage should never take place" lan long letter. printed in faenimile, Thackeray gives an amusing account of an evening with Jul. Janin, one of his great friends during this visit to Paris " I bad great fun giving him authentic amounts of London. I told hint that to see the people boxing in the streets was a eonntant source of amusement to on that in November you saw eve, lamp poet in london llndge with a te. ' hanging from it who had committed suicide—and he believed everything. Did you ever read any of the worl. of Janie —No Well. On. ton been for twenty years famous Is Prance : and he on his xss noes. beard of the works of Tit.  marsh, nor has anybody else here, and that is a comfort." " Did you read in F. liewinan's book I There speaks a very pintet loving, humble soul. I think, with an asceticsl continence, too--code beautiful love and reverence - Fin a publican and sinner, but I believe three men are on the true track." Law in the year we find an account—Magic and impressive in spite of (or is it because of its plain every day language—of the incapacity for grief of all old husband, whose wife's coffin is being nailed down in the next room, he being "too deaf to hear, and seemc too old to care very much." .Then comes another reference to •• David Gopperfield," " Read ntore novels, • David Copperfield' to wit, in which there is a charming bit of insanity, and which I begin to believe is the eery best thing the authm has yet done," In a letter dated Christina, 1849, we find another of Thackeray's elorrent protests against what lie calls "Gothic Christianity" , •• say it is awful and blasphemous tote calling neon Heaven to interfere about the thouaand trivialities of a man's . to say that it is Providence that sends a draught of air upon me which givea toe a cold in the head . . Bow down. Confess, Adore, Admire, and Beverence finitely. Make your act or faith and trust. Acknowledge with constant awe the idea of the infinite Persence over all. —Bet what impudence it is in us to talk about loving God enough, ill may 150 'peak. Wretched little blindlings, what do we know about 11 Inn ? Who mys that we are to sacrifice the human affections as disrespectful to God The ham, the wretched canting fakirs of Christianism, the convent and conventicle dervishes—they are only less unreasonable now than the Eremites and and holy women who whipped and starved thereaelvea, never washed, and encouraged verniin for the glory of God. Washing is allowed now, mid bodily filth a d pain not always enjoined ; but still they nay, abut your ears and don't hear mmic. close your eym and don't eee natme and beauty. steel your hearts and be ashamed of yoor leer for your ; and timid fond souls Reared by their curses,and bending before their unending arrogance and duMem, consent t be miserable. cud bare their soft shoulders for the brutes' stripes, ancoiding to the nature of women."  At Lairs...sr, on Tue•cl..7. Geom. 8..... an elderly maw war chariesil "rob of hie wife by her on tbr lowd. Saver, neighbour. M the parties deapwed to noemg tb proonet eon, horne 0 Oh. 1001, to.t. without hie boo., which ho h d pawned to. druile. A quarrel fol oared, end the of ceiwool ran • ne.abiann'e 0000p40000e that her huaband had etrunk  her en the heal atilt a tin p&.. She Intateliat became anammeion, end never nutted. He Wes committed to the dews..