intellect. She seems to have found Carlyle's company stimulating enough before marriage; could she not, I wonder, have taken more interest in the books he was writing, so that, instead of silently perpending, he should talk his points over with her? But, as a matter of fact, except during the Lady Ashburton period, the marriage was such а companionship-witness her literally killing anxiety as to the success of his Lord Rector speech. The selfishness of Carlyle was not wilful, even though it be inexcusable. It was blindness; his soul was rapt away from the real world around him, and lived amid great men and picturesque mobs. And it must not be forgotten that the artist, inasmuch as he lives a double life, comes under two sets of standards, and it is something if he satisfies one. Egoistic as Carlyle may have been as a husband, as an artist he was impeccable. He yielded neither to the temptations of gold nor of shoddy work. His energy was herculean, his labor supremely conscientious, his perseverance equalled his genius. Verily he could "toil terribly," this man who could re-write "The French Revolution" after the first manuscript had been destroyed. That men of letters and painters and musicians are not immaculate the world knows well enough; but ere it points the Pharisaic finger of scorn, let it remember to make the distinction between the conscienceless in both life and art, and those whose artistic conscience is at least clear. And let it remember that the artistic part of him is to the artist his own inmost reality, and that, as was the case with Carlyle, he may in the service of his art be even unconscious of his lapses from common morality. The prophet was a weak and sinful creature-perhaps. But did he prophesy from the heart of him, or was he a charlatan posing for money in the market-place? That is the question to be considered in the matter of great men. Owing to the double nature of the artist, four logical possibilities arise. He may be a good man and a dishonest artist, or a bad man and an honest artist, or a bad man and a dishonest artist, or a good man and an honest artist. While there can be no question as to the supreme greatness of the fourth variety, or as to the turpitude of the third, casuists might wrangle eternally over the alternative of the first two. Should a painter turn out pot-boilers to support his family, or should he neglect his domestic duties to follow his artistic ideals? Whatever you may feel about Carlyle's character, pray bear in mind the terrible amount of morality that went to make those wonderful books, and which is stored up in them like force in nitro-glycerine; and if you are an ordinary humdrum person, who contributes nothing to the world's treasury, it will become you better to say grace than to pronounce judgment. And, whatever you may think of the rights and wrongs of the Carlyle household, remember the shrewd thing that Tennyson said about it-the shrewdest thing any one has Isaid about it-that it was a blessing they had married each other, for otherwise there would have been four unhappy people instead of two." A Glowworm Cavern.-The greatest | cavern is that of an underground river, wonder of the antipodes is the celebrated glowworm cavern, discovered in 1891, in the heart of the Tasmanian wilderness. The cavern, or caverns (there appears to be a series of such caverns in the vicinity, each separate and distinct), are situated near the town of Southport, Tasmania, in a limestone bluff, about four miles from Ida Bay. The appearance of the main the entire floor of the subterranean passage being covered with water about a foot and a half in depth. These wonderful Tasmanian caves are similar to all caverns found in limestone formation, with the exception that their roofs and sides literally shine with the light emitted by the millions of glowworms which inhabit them. For SIX DOLLARS remitted directly to the Publishers, the LIVING AGE will be punctually for warded for a year, free of postage. Remittances should be made by bank draft or check, or by post-office money-order, if possible. If neither of these can be procured, the money should be sent in a registered letter. All postmasters are obliged to register letters when requested to do so. Drafts, checks, and money-orders should be made payable to the order of LITTELL & Co. Single copies of the LIVING AGE, 15 cents. AFTER MANY YEARS. Throw wide the window; let us stand together, And thought that summer breezes blew, The path that winds across the moor snow The path that led me to your door Where knots of coral berries shone, I won you for my own. Now, Time, which shows but little care Its tell-tale furrows on my face; Sweet wife, uplift your eyes to mine! And tell me are you happy still? My heart has aye been true to thine, Through all life's mingled good and ill: And in this memory-haunted room, Our merry tribe about my knee, I vow the years have held no gloom Since you kept house with me. Chambers' Journal. E. MATHESON. She loved the autumn, I the spring, Some look in all things made her sigh, But when the day grew grey and old, Spirit of Sadness, in the spheres R. LE GALLIENNE. From Temple Bar. FIGHTING THURLOW: HIS FOES AND FRIENDS. The name of the school is associated with another lawyer of distinction, for just at the time that Thurlow was pass"No, sir, I am not descended from ing away from the world the future Cromwell's secretary. There were two Baron Alderson was being grounded Thurlows in that part of the country: there in Latin and Greek. Its master Thurloe the secretary and Thurloe the in 1742 was the Rev. Joseph Brett, carrier. I am descended from the last." | familiarly known as "Old Joe Brett," This was the assertion of Lord Chan- and in his boarding-house dwelt Thurcellor Thurlow, when some flatterer low and Peter Routh, father of the venwas suggesting to him a probable kin-erable master of Magdalen College at ship with Cromwell's adviser and Oxford. This pedagogue was removed, friend, and it was typical of the man. it is said, for "neglecting and ill-treatHe affected to despise et genus et pro- ing the parish children," and he exavos, and in private as well as in public tended his severity of treatment to the life, he was ever ready for a contradic- boys in his house. The cruel bully tion or a contest of words. treated the young "pickle" savagely, and Thurlow repaid him with undying hatred. Nearly thirty years later Brett followed his old pupil, by this time the attorney-general, into a bookseller's shop at Norwich. "Mr. Thurlow, do you not recollect me?" was the question of the complacent parson. From the lips of the lawyer came the answer, "I am not bound to recollect every scoundrel who chooses to recollect me." His father, the Rev. Thomas Thur'low, was vicar of Little Ashfield (a parish more usually known by the name of Badwell Ash), situate a few miles from Bury St. Edmunds, and within the confines of Suffolk, and his son Edward was born there about 1732. The district is connected with a second lawyer of eminence, for in the old grammarschool of Botesdale, a village within the compass of a walk, Law, the first Lord Ellenborough, received his early training in the arts. Some years later the father received, on the nomination of Caius College, Cambridge, where he had graduated B.A. in 1716, the more valuable rectory of Stratton St. Mary in the adjoining county of Norfolk, and was thus enabled to give his son the advantage of a good education. It was all, he said, that was wanted, "for Ned," he knew, "could fight his way;" and fight his way he did until he had reached the topmost rung of the law. Four years of probation were passed at Scarning, and two more, from 1746 to 1748, were spent in the King's School, Canterbury, the institution to which Lord Chief Justice Tenterden "owed the first and best means of his elevation in life." A curious anecdote is told by Sir Egerton Brydges, and incorporated in Southey's "Life of Cowper," that Thurlow was brought there by Dr. Donne, a Norfolk man, who had a prebendal stall at Canterbury Cathedral, and was on bad terms with Talbot, the head master, in order that his daring and fractious disposition might prove a torment to the head of the school. He no doubt carried out his patron's intentions, but at the same time added much to his stock of knowledge. On 5th October, 1748, he matriculated at Caius College, Cambridge, and exactly a week later was elected a scholar Scarning was the school to which he was now sent. The village is still known to fame through the fact that its rector is the genial and accomplished archæologist, the Rev. Dr. Augustus Jessopp. Throughout the last century the reputation of its school spread far and wide. The endowments were not excessive, and there was coupled with them the liability of in-on Perse's foundation. The combativestructing the village youth in the three R.'s, but this duty was discharged by an usher, and the head master kept a boarding-school in which the sons of the neighboring squires and parsons were instructed in Latin and Greek. ness of his disposition was soon shown in his new life, and he combined with it an ostentatious love of "loafing," which was probably but the mask for much quiet reading. Throughout his career he was credited with the pos cellorship of Lincoln Cathedral. This incident must have occurred in the winter of 1750-51, for the young undergraduate ceased from Lady Day, 1751, to receive the emolument of his scholarship. session of a considerable stock of clas- | occasion by bestowing on him the chansical learning, and after his retirement into private life he solaced himself by translations from the dead authors. But within the walls of his college his career resembled that of Johnson in the union of desultory reading with an absolute disregard of academic authority. He was at war with all those in authority above him from the highest to the lowest. When the master remarked to him, "Mr. Thurlow, I never look out of this window, but I see you passing under it," the answer ready, "Mr. Master, I never pass under this window but I see you looking out of it." Criticism and answer are now part of the traditional jokes of college life handed down from generation to generation, and are always assigned to the witty poet C. S. Calverley in his life at the university; but they appeared in print long before that date, as the property of Thurlow. was His differences with the college dean, a somewhat pompous personage, were of a more deadly nature. Early in his academical career he had been reproved by the dignitary for forgetting his exalted position, and ever after he revenged himself by an excessive use of the title "Mr. Dean" on every possible occasion. For some offence, it is believed to have been for omission to attend at chapel, he received from the dean the imposition of translating a paper of "The Spectator" into Greek. The task was done, but the paper was left with the college-tutor, and not with the pedagogue who had imposed the task. The offended dignitary, furious at the slight, caused the rebellious undergraduate to be summoned before master and fellows in council, when Thurlow very coolly explained that he had left the imposition with the tutor out of regard for the dean, who, he was sure, would have been sorely puzzled by the receipt of a document in Greek. The insult was so gross that the don pressed for expulsion, but through the mediation of a kindly tutor the culprit was at last allowed to take his name off the books. This friend was John Smith, afterwards master of the college, and many years later, in 1783, Thurlow rewarded him for his kindness on this "Fighting Ned" was once more on his father's hands, and the question which agitated the rector's household was what should be done with him. The prophecy of a clerical friend to the boy some years previously, "I shall live to see you lord chancellor," may have come home to the father's heart, or it may have been his own resolution; but, at all events, to eat his dinners at the Inner Temple he was sent. The date of his admission is given in the books of the inn as 9th January, 1752, and the date of his call to the bar was 22nd November, 1754. Welsby, in his "Lives of Eminent English Judges," is therefore inclined to believe that he entered into commons in Hilary Term of 1751. For some part of this time he read with a certain Mr. Chapman, an attorney of Ely Place, Holborn, where he had the This company of the poet Cowper. connection may have been brought about through the agency of the same Dr. Donne who was a friend of Thurlow's father and a near relation of Cowper's mother. All the spare time of the timid poet was passed in his aunt's house, No. 30 Southampton Row, and into that little circle he speedily introduced the aggressive Thurlow. There, as Cowper reminded Lady Hesketh many years afterwards, "was I and the future lord chancellor, constantly employed, from morning to night, in giggling and making giggle, instead of studying the law." So far as Thurlow was concerned the expression must have been exaggerated. It was his habit at this period to appear to his associates as a "loafer," and in secret to seize every opportunity of work. Cradock, in his "Memoirs," states that on his morning calls at Thurlow's chambers at the Temple, he was always found hard at work. The friendship of these wo uncongenial spirits lasted for many years. In 1762, when Thurlow had taken silk, they drank tea together at a lady's house in Blooms |