The Story Teller.

Bruce Herald, Volume x, Issue 957, 13 November 1877, Page 7

The Story Teller.

PBIME MINISTER TO THE MABAJAH OF JODHPOBE. ' , _ The story told about Fai« ul-Khan'i rise in life is wonderfully characteristic of Eastern manners and custom?, and reads almost like a leaf out of the (( Arabian Nights." He came to Jodhpore a mere adventurer , and attached hiau»elf as a hanger-on to the heir-apparent, | wisely worshipping the rising sun. Ona day, with a number of the Jodhpore nobility, he foi lowed the Prince to the chase ; a leopard was started, and hard hit by a bullet, but made its escape to ■ifts den— a dark cave among the hills. Followed up by the. Prince and his parfyj when it came to " bearding the leopard itf his den," not one of the Ifojput Bahadurs had the pluck to enter; all hung back, when forth stepped the Mussulman, sand, entering the cave with his drawn sword, gave the wild beast his quietus, and laid it at the prince's feet. DisgUßted at his nobles' pusaillanimity, and pleased with the . foreigner's pluck, the Prin; c then and there swore to be his friend and brother, aad to stand by him through thick and thin. To this promise he has been most faithful. On bis accession to the throne, the man of pluck was made Prime Minister— became, indeed, the virtual ruler of Marwar.- -From a tour through Raj pootana. ' : a BiGOßOirs summing up. • In Parliament, Lord Macaulay was no more than a most brilliant speaker, and . in his speeches there was the : same fundamental weakness which prevadea his writings— uneoundness in the presentment of bis case. Some one element was sure to be _ left out which falsified bia statement and vitiated his conclusionß, and, there never was perhaps a speaker or writer of eminence so prone to presentments of cases who so . rarely offered one which was complete and true. My own impression is, and always was, that the cause of the defect is Constitutional in Macaulay. The evidence seems to indicate that he wants heart. He appears to be wholly unaware of the deficiency, and the superficial fervour which runs over his disclosures probably deceives himself as it deceives a good many other people, and he may really believe that he has a heart. In fact, the only way to accept hia history is to take it as a brilliant fancy piece— wanting not only the truth but the; repose ot '• history^bufc stimulating; and even to a degree suggestive.