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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 23, 26 September 1884, Page 27

Feeble ladies, aged peis >ns, weakly children, persons of sedentary babitf, all need Hop Bitttrs daily. Kead and believe.

Hereis a word picture from an American paper of Matthew Arnold lecturing upou Emerson :— " Bland, suave., and icily critic il as is his wont, he surveyed his audience for a good five minutes, took a deep draught of ihe Pierian spring from the customary water-crofr, and suddenly, with out-shot lips, started off, in a monotonous singsong voic, in hot pursuit of Emerson. He ta ke lin the irritating up-an-i-down cadence of a typical Oxford parsou ; he slung his sarcasms against the kindly aud gentle American thinker, like sjrna MtLsi David, who nai pra^p^d a boulder instead of a psbble wherowith to slay Boston's (ioli.ith. His only gesture was a somewhat weak »i<l depri catory fashion of closing his hands n front of him elf, and then waving ttum. backwards wiih a feeble flap. The lccturor'd leal estimate of Emerson :He was a- modern Marcus &ureb'us — ' tin frieDd of those who would walk in the Bpiril,' Hound and round the metaphysical mulberry bush went the good Matthew. He dogmatised ou ' hopefulness,' 'soreuity,' 'lucid freedom,' and revelled in glodfied adverbs. What he evidently wanted to say was that Emerson was kindly, gentle, ioyous, and human, but such easily understood words were impossible to him ; and so we contented ourselves with • delicacy,' and ' elevation, 1 and made the most we could out of them. The general effect of the discourse of the teacher who has succeeded in irritating an entire continent was that be preached a doctrine of bumptiousness. '