INTERESTING REMINISCENCES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10815, 4 December 1902, Page 5

INTERESTING REMINISCENCES.

Lord Palmerston again ! How 1 he comes", back to' me, and- how I like to think that, ' he spoke to me, like the small boy whom.' the Duke of Wellington d— - — d. ' I can re- • <member him so- well, in his "vigorous 6M. - age, riding hard down the hot road in.' July to figure at the "speech-day", of his good old Harrow, and riding -back again, as soon as the serious function of: the day - was over — riding, as men of -business , do ' rjde, elbows out, . toes in. Well, - 1 hafve^ seen him often in my younger days. I v have presumed to argue with 'Gladstone ' about music, and even indur4i him to lay t that he "would take time to consider myproposition." I 'have been pettea by J«K'--anna Baillie, I have shuddered, at Mac- , ready, I have listened, to Macauley, I hnVedefended the ' Briton's character in , America, just -after the Civil -war, ajon& , against the wrath of- Lowell, and of Sum- •" ncr, I have loved and cherished the per- ■ ( f sonal talk of Wendell Holmes — so like his 'exquisite writing over .Boston's choicest ( • whaflles — I have -Watched ' Garibaldi playing bowls at Nice, I have listened in the- . • same town to Clara Noyello singing spngs for me all by myself, in her little buttqgt of a house as she called it; I have listened, to the philosophy of De Tocqueville,. tra Republicanism of Louis Blanc, .the- omm^, * science of Buckle, and. the metaphysics^ . , theories of Manning, by houraat my.fafli- * er*s table; I have edited and largely. wrM>''. ten that sound, and wholesome work, JufeV 'Annual Register/ for ten mis-spent - brffc patient years, I have indited, prose .and ■ verse for Punch, and the Spectator,? and', the Saturday, and th» World, an/d;.Tnrih, ' all at the same time. . I have' harangued 7* ~ Church Congress, and an Art Society, and an Educational Institute, and political' crowds unnumbered. I have acted many a time with Kate and Ellen Terry, and been., the last of Helen Faucit's Touchstone* . when she bade the stage farewell. I have . been offered an Irish seat' gratis by Parnell himself. I have been invited to fight Brfa- ", tol against Beach, and Brighton against Marriott, as a full-fledged lunatic. I have been a Boundary Commissioner in Wales, a Caucus in Sussex, a Chief Justice's. Marshal, Matthew Arnold for my 'cqK . league, a Private Secretary in Spain, and . an egg merchant 'in Clo.tkenwell. — Herman C. Merivale in his book "Bar, Stage, aoA Platform." ' ' '- v '

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