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Thackeray's ambition was to become an artist, and, to this end, he traveled over most of Europe, studying at Rome and Paris. His sketches were bright and clever, but did not show proof of a master- hand. He next took to literature, and this ever afterward became his constant study and occupation. With a patient and contented heart, he began to work at the lowest step of the ladder. Under several quaint pseudonyms, he became a constant contributor to "Eraser's Magazine," and wrote for it two of the best of his minor works, The Great Hoggarty Diamond and Barry Lyndon. Under the pseudonym of Titmarsh he wrote several volumes of sketches. In the mean time, Thackeray had lost his fortune through unsuccessful speculations, and was thus forced to do literary work to gain a living. The establishment of the Lon- don Punch afforded him a more congenial field than he had hitherto enjoyed. His Snob Papers and Jeames's Diary were hailed with delight by a large circle of readers. The author's reputation was still more advanced by his novel of Vanity Fair, published in monthly parts in the style of Pickwick, during the years 1846-48. Thackeray illustrated the novel himself, or, as he expressed it, "illuminated with the author's own candle." In 1849, he began a second serial fiction, Pendennis, in which much of his own history and experiences is recorded. In 1851, the busy novelist gave a course of lectures on the " English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century," afterwards published in a volume with a course of lectures on the "Four Georges." These lectures are light, graceful sketches, full of passages of real power, tender pathos and eloquence. From 4 LIFE OF THACKERAY. 1852 to 1855 appeared two of Thackeray's great novels, Eenry Esmond and The Newcomes. These were followed by The Virginians, Philip, Level the Widower, and by a series of pleasant, gossipy essays called Roundabout Papers from which the following sketches have been selected. As editor of the '' Corn- hill Magazine " Thackeray had begun a new serial, Dennis Duval, which prom- ised to be one of his most elaborate and highly finished novels, when he was cut off in the fullness of his busy life. He was found dead in his bed on the morn- ing of the 24th of December, 1863. He had long been a sufferer from various physical maladies, among others of heart disease. Like Fielding, the great master of fiction, Thackeray had the same hatred of all meanness, cant, and knavery, the same large sympathy, relish of life, thought- ful humor, keen insight, delicate irony, and wit. While Fielding was utterly careless as to censure of his works, Thackeray was keenly sensitive to criticism and hurt to the quick by the slightest attack. His strength lay in portraying character rather than inventing incidents. While his earlier writings were tinged with a spirit of bitter cynicism and caustic satire, his later works showed the mellowing influence of years and suffering, and the merciless satirist became the genial humorist and philosophical observer. The great characteristic of Thackeray was his humanity. This is the crown and glory of his work. While he had scorn for vice and falsehood, and satire for folly and pretence, he had smiles and tears and tenderness and charity for ail that is true and good. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, 1811-1863. His examples have all been efficacious in their teaching on the side of mod- esty and manliness, truth and simplicity.— ^.n^^ony Trollope. It is Thackeray's aim to represent life as it is actually and historically,— men and women as they are, in those situations in which they are usually placed, with that mixture of good and evil and of strength and foible which is to be found in their characters.— i^at^ec? Masson. The highest purely English novelist since Fielding, he combined Addison's love of virtue with Dr. Johnson's hatred of cant, Horace Walpole's lynx-like eye for the mean and the ridiculous, with the gentleness and wide charity for man- kind as a whole, of Goldsmith.— Jame^ Hannay. He is one of the healthiest writers who has attained celebrity since the days of Scott and Byron. His style— and a man's style is, as it were, his mind's com- plexion—is an index of it. Agreeable, manly, colloquial English,— the English of cultivated men,— such is the clear atmosphere we breathe in reading him.— London Athenceum. In his subtle, spiritual analysis of men and women, as we see them and live with them ; in his power of detecting enduring passions and desires, the strengths, the weaknesses, the deceits of the race, from under the mask of ordi- nary worldly and town life, he stood and stands alone and matchless. ~i?r. John Brown. The last words he corrected in print were, "And my heart throbbed with an exquisite bliss." God grant that on that Christmas Eve, when he laid his head back on his pillow and threw up his arms as he had been wont to do when very weary, some consciousness of duty done and Christian hope throughout life humbly cherished may have caused his own heart so to throb when he passed away to his Redeemer's rest \— Charles Dickens. THACKERAY'S BEST WORKS. Thackeray was a voluminous writer. His characters are as life-like as those of Scott, and usually drawn with great power. His plots are loose and ram- bling, and the chief interest centres in the masterly dialogue. Thackeray's first, and as many consider it, his greatest novel, Vanity Fair^ gives an account of two great characters in fiction,— the one, Becky Sharp, the sharp, clever, unscrur pulous governess ; the otlier, Amelia Sedley, sweet, amiable, pretty, but insipid. Pendennis, a man full of faults and weaknesses, is the hero of Fe'ndennis. The Major, a worldly old beau, and George Warrington, who acts as the hero's good genius, are capitally drawn. Esmond^ considered the most perfect of Thack- eray's novels, is in the form of an autobiography supposed to be written in the time of Queen Anne. Dean Swift, Coiigreve, Addison and Steele are introduced as characters into this novel. The Newcomes relates the history of the simple, kind-hearted Colonel Newcome and sweet Ethel Newcome, his daughter, and the heroine of the story, the best of Thackeray's female characters and so esteemed by the author himself. The Virginians, a story of the times of Dr. Johnson, gives the history of the grandsons of Esmond. The war of the Eevolution forms a part of the historical ground-work of the plot. Thackeray also wrote some admirable Christmas stories, full of charming grace and playful irony. WHAT TO READ OF THACKERAY. In addition to the three sketches from Roundabout Papers, in this number of the Englisli classics, the following papers, from the same volume, represent Thack- eray at his best in this style of writing:— "On a Hundred Years Hence," "" On Lett's Diary," " Notes on a Week's Holiday," " Ogres," " On Being Found Out," " On Two Children in Black." The Lectures on the English Hmnorists, especially that on " Sterne and Goldsmith," will alford delightful reading to the young stu- dent of literature. The Four Georges depicts the darker side of Germanized English court hfe. The domestic tragedy of "Farmer George," third of the name, is described with great pathos, closing with a passage full of mournful beauty and deep feeling. The preceding selections from Thackeray's writings do not, of course, represent his best work. For this we must turn to his great novels. The young student is advised to read enough of Vanity Fair to get a fair idea of the great character of Becky Sharp, and of The Newcomes to appre- ciate that lovely picture of womanhood in the character of the gentle Ethel New- come. Other selections may well be left to the advice of some experienced stu- dent of Thackeray's works. REFERENCES. The three best works on the life and writings of Thackeray's are Anthony Trollope's Thackeray in the " English Men of Letters Series." Blanchard Jer- rold's "Day with Thackeray" in his Bext of All Good Company^ ajul James T. Fields's Yesterday with Authors. Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgli, autlior of '• Rub and his Friends," wrote lovingly of the great novelist in the second series of his Spare Hours. Two of the best critical essays are to be found in Peter Bayne's Essays in Biography, and Whipple's Character and Characteiistic Men. See also Hannay's Studies on Thackeray. Brimley's Essays, and tlie French view in Taine's English Literature. In Kellogg's English Literature, page 280, may be found references to the most noteworthy articles on Thackeray in the lead- ing periodicals. Roundabout Papers. " Those queer, delightful, rambling, thoroughly Thackerayesque Roundabout Papers, which many aouse but all delight in— frolics of genius ' wandering at its own sweet will' through all wildernesses of topics, past and present."— M//iaw Francis Collier. PREFATORY NOTE. In 1859, Thackeray undertook the last great work of his life, the editorship of The Cornhill Magazine, a periodical set on foot by a London publisher, with an amount of energy greater than has generally been bestowed upon such enterprises. The fact tliat Thackeray was to edit the new magazine attracted great attention, and undoubtedly caused the enormous sales which the early numbers had. While The VornldU proved to be deservedly popular with the reading world, it was generally admitted that Thackeray was not a good editor. He was not the man to have a patient and scrupulous mastery over the perplexing details of an editor's daily work. Prone to work by fits and starts ; unmethodical and keenly sensitive to the heart-rending appeals which accompanied the piles of manuscript laid on his table, Thackm-ay could not have been a successful editor. He resigned his editorship in April, 1862, but con- tinned to write for the magazine until he died, the day before Christmas in 1863. The "Roundabout Papers," from which we have taken the three following sketches, were published in The Cornhill Magazine, They are light, gossipy essays, and while they do not show the author at his best, are marked by a genial wit, tender pathos, and kindly sympathy, which characterizes the great novelist's rare charm of style. Round about the Christmas Tree, The kindly Christmas tree, from which I trust every gentle reader has pulled a bonbon or two, is yet all aflame whilst I am writing, and sparkles with the sweet fruits of its season. You young ladies, may you have plucked pretty giltlings from it; and out of the cracker sugar-plum which you have split with the captain or the sweet young curate may you have read one of those delicious conundrums which the confectioners introduce into the sweetmeats, and which apply to the cunning passion of love. Those riddles are to be read at ijoiir age, when I dare say they are amusing. As for Dolly, Merry, and Bell, who are stand- ing at the tree, they don't care about the love-riddle part, but understand the sweet-almoued portion very well. They are four, 8 EOUNDABOUT PAPEKS. five, six years old. Patience, little people ! A dozen merry Christmases more, and you will be reading those wonderful love- conundrums too. As for us elderly folks, we watch the babies at their sport, and the young peoi)le pulling at the branches: and instead of finding bonbons or sweeties in the packets which we pluck ofi" the boughs, we find enclosed Mr. Carnifex's ^ review of the quarter's meat; Mr. Sartor's ccmipliments, and little state- ment for self and the young gentlemen : and Madame de Sainte- Crinoline's respects to the young ladies, wlio encloses her account, and will send on Saturday, please ; or we stretch our hand out to the educational b]"anch of the Christmas tree, and there find a lively and amusing article from the Kev. Henry Holyshade, containing our dear Tommy's exceedingly moderate account for the last term's school expenses. The tree yet sparkles, I say. I am writing on the day before Tw'elfth Day,- if you must know ; but already ever so many of the fruits have been pulled, and the Christmas lights have gone out. Bobby Miseltow, who has been staying with us for a week, comes to say he is going away to sj)end the rest of the holidays with his grandmother— and I brush away the manly tear of regret as I part with the dear child. " Well, Bob, good-by, since you luill go. Compliments to grandmamma. Thank her for the turkey. Here's " {A slight pecuniary transaction takes place at this juncture^ and Boh nods and winks, and puts his hand in his waistcoat pocket.) " You have had a pleasant week ? ' Bob. — " Haven't I ! " {And exit, anxious to know the amount of the coin which has just changed hands.) He is gone, and as the dear boy vanishes through the door I too cast up a little account of our past Christmas week.^ "When 1. Mr. Carnifex, Mr. Sartor, etc.— Notice the significance of the names of these imaginary characters. Carnifex literally means the maker of flesh ; Sartor, Latin for tailor. The other names explain themselves. 2. Twelfth Day.— The twelfth day after Christmas (Jan. 6th) was in olden times the season of universal festivity. For full explanation see articles ou "Epiphany "" and "Jan. (jth " in Chambers's Soak of Daijs. 3. Christmas Week.— The reader will find descriptions of the English cele- bration of Christmas-time in Dickeus's (Jhrintmas Carol and Irving's Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hall. KOUKDABOUT PAPERS. 9 Bob's liolidays are over, I know Christmas will be an old story. All the fruit will be off the Christmas tree then ; the crackers will have cracked off; the almonds will have been crunched ; and the sweet-bitter riddles will have been read ; the lights will have perished off the dark green boughs; the toys growing on them will have been distributed, fought for, cherished, neglected, broken. Ferdinand and Fidelia will each keejj out of it the remembrance of a riddle, read together, of a double almond munched together, and the moiety of an exploded cracker * * * The maids, I say, will have taken down all that holly stuff and nonsense about the clocks, lamps, and looking-glasses, the dear boys will be back at school, fondly thinking of the pantomime fairies* whom they have seen and whose gaudy gossamer wings are battered by this time. Yet but a few days. Bob, and flakes of paint will have cracked on the fairy flower-bowers, and the revolving temples of adamantine lustre will be as shabl)y as the city of Pekin. When you read this, will Clown still be going on lolling his tongue out of his mouth, and saying, " How are you to-morrow ? " To-morrow, indeed ! He must be almost ashamed of himself (if that cheek is still capable of the blush of shame) for asking the absurd question. To-morrow, indeed ! To-mor- row the diffugient snows will give place to Spring ; the snow- drops will lift their heads ; Ladyday^ may be expected, and the pecuniary duties peculiar to that feast; in place of bonbons, trees will have an eruj)tion of light green knobs; the whitebait season will bloom * * * as if one need go on describing these vernal phenomena, when Christmas is still here, though ending, and the subject of my discourse! We have all admired the illustrated papers,*"' and noted how boisterously jolly they become at Christmas time. What wassail- 4. Pantoiuime Fairies,— The Christmas pantomime plays a? brought out at the London theatres are most important features of the Christmas festivities. Thej^ are gorgeous combinations of song and dance, of fun and parody, of fairy scenes and delicious music. 5. L,adyday — One of the regular quarter-days in England on which rent is generally "made payable. It is the 25th of March in each year. 6. Jllustrated Papers.— The magnificent and costly Christmas numbers of the London Illustrated papers are to be found on almost every news stand on this side of the Atlantic. A sale of more tliau half a million copies of the most pop- ular paper is claimed. 4 10 ROUI^DABOUT PAPERS. bowls, robin-redbreasts, waits, snow landscapes, bursts of Christ- mas song ! And then to think that these festivities are prepared months before — that these Christmas pieces are prophetic ! How kind of artists and poets to devise tiie festivities beforehand, and serve them pat at the proper time ! We ought to be grateful to them, as to the cook who gets up at midnight and sets the pudding a boiling, which is to feast us at six o'clock. I often think with gratitude of the famous Mr. Nelson Lee — the author of I don't know how many hundred glorious pantomimes — walk- ing by the summer wave at Margate,'' or Brighton perhaps, re- volving in his mind the idea of some new gorgeous spectacle of faery, which the winter shall see complete. He is like cook at midnight. He watches and thinks. He pounds the sparkling- sugar of benevolence, the plums of fjincy, the sweetmeats of fun, the figs of — well, the figs of fairy fiction, let us say, and pops the whole in the seething cauldron of imagination, and at due season serves up the Pantomime. Very few men, in the course of nature, can expect to see all the 23antomimes in one season, but I hope to the end of my life I shall never forego reading about them in that delicious sheet of The Times^ which ajDpears in the morning after Boxing-day. Perhaps reading is even better than seeing. The best way, I think, is to say you are ill, lie in bed, and have the paper for two hours, reading all the way down from Drury Lane ^ to the Britannia at Hoxton. Bob and I went to two pantomimes. One was at the Theatre of Fancy, and the other at the Fairy Opera, and I don't know which we liked the best. Bob's behavior on New Year's day, I can assure Dr. Holyshade, was highly creditable to the boy. He had expressed a determi- nation to partake of every dish which was put on the table ; but after soup, fish, roast-beef, and roast-goose, he retired from active business until the j^udding and mince pie made their 7. Margate— Brighton. — Two fashionable and popular seaside resorts in England. 8. The Times.— The famous daily newspaper of London, popularly nick- named as " The Thunderer." 9. Drury I^ane —The oldest, as it is also the largest and handsomest, of the theatres proper of London. Britannia.— A commodious and unusually well built London theatre. ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. 11 appearance, of which he partook liberally, but not too freely. Our young friend amused the company during the evening, by exhibiting a two-shilling magic-lantern, which he had purchased, and likewise by singing " Sally, come up! " a quaint, but rather monotonous melody, which I am told is sung by the poor negro on the banks of the broad Mississippi. What other enjoyments did we proffer for the child's amuse- ment during the Christmas week ? A great philosopher was giving a lecture to young folks '" at the British institution. But when this diversion was jDroposed to our young friend Bob, he said, "Lecture? No, thank you. Not as I knows on,' and made sarcastic signals on his nose. Perhaps he is of Dr. John- son's opinion about lectures : " Lectures, sir ! what man would go to hear that imperfectly at a lecture which he can read at leisure in a book ? " / never went, of my own choice, to a lec- ture ; that I can vow. As for sermons, they are different; I delight in them, and they cannot, of course, be too long. Well, we partook of yet other Christmas delights besides pantomime, pudding, and pie. One glorious, one delightful, one most unlucky and pleasant day, we drove in a brougham, with a famous horse, which carried us more quickly and briskly than any of your vulgar railways, over Battersea Bridge, on which the horse's hoofs rung as if it had been iron ; through suburban villages, plum-caked with snow ; under a leaden sky, in w4iich the sun hung like a red-hot warming-pan ; by pond after pond, where not only men and boys, but scores after scores of women and girls, were sliding, and roaring, and clapping their lean old sides with laughter, as they tumbled down, and their Ijob nailed shoes flew up in the air; the air frosty with a lilac liaze, through which villas, and commons, and churches, and plantations glimmered. We drive U23 the hill, Bob and I ; we make the last two miles in eleven minutes ; we p)ass that poor, armless man who sits there in the cold, following you with his eyes. I don't give anything, and Bob looks disappointed. We 10. Lecture to Younj; Folks.— Familiar lectures; on scientific subjects have 1)een siven in London (liirin: \pres," '* Twentv Year?* Afte.'-.'" the. title of one of Duma>-' ro- mance^. '• Woman in White.""' one of Wilkie CoUins's highly-» roagbt novela. Tunbridge WelU, a faj^hionable En»li.-ih watering-plac«r. 36 ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. ter's compliments, and can he have. the third volume? "® (This message was sent to an astonished friend and neighbor who lent me, volume by volume, the W. in W.) How do you like your novels ? I like mine strong, " hot with,'' and no mistake : nc love-making : no observations about society : little dialogue except whe]-e the characters are bullying each other : plenty ol' lighting : and a villain in the cu^jboard, who is to suffer tortures just before Finis. I don't like your melancholy Finis. I never read the history of a consumptive heroine twice. In the story of Piiilip, just come to an end, I have the permission of the author to state that he was going to drown the two villains of the piece — a certain Dr. F and a certain Mr. T. H on board the " President " ^ or some other tragic ship — but you see I relented. I pictured to myself Firmin's ghastly face, amid the crowd of shuddering people on that reeling deck ni the lonely ocean, and thought, '• Thou ghastly lying wretch, thou shalt not be drowned ; thou shalt have a fever only ; a knowledge of thy danger; and a chance — ever so small a chance — of repentance." I wonder whether he did repent when he found himself in the yellow-fever, in Virginia? The probability is, he fancied that his son had injured him very much, and forgave him on his death-bed. Do you imagine there's a great deal of genuine right- down remorse in the world ? Don't people rather find excuses which make their minds easy ; endeavor to prove to themselves that they have been lamentably belied and misunderstood ; and try and forgive the persecutors who toill present that bill when it is due; and not bear malice against the cruel ruffian who takes them to the police-office for stealing the spoons ? Alexandre Dumas '" describes himself, when inventing the plan of a work, as lying silent on his back for two whole days on the deck of a yacht in a Mediterranean port. At the end of the two days he arose and called for dinner. In those two days he 8. Third Volume.— English publishers commonlv publish novels in three volumes at a price which would be considered exorbitant in this country. 9. '* President."— The steamer " President " sailed March 11, 1841, from New York for Liverpool with many passengers on board. The vessel encountered a terrific storm two days after lea^'ing port and was never seen afterwards. 10. Alexander Dumas.— 1803-1870. A celebrated French novelist, author of C'mmt of Monte Cristo, La Reine Margot, etc. ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. 37 had built his plot. He had moulded a mighty clay, to be cast presently in perennial brass. The chapiters, the characters, the incidents, the combinations were all arranged in the artist's brain ere he set a pen to paper. My Pegasus won't fly, so as to let me survey the iield below me. He has no wings, he is blind of one eye certainiy, he is restive, stubborn, slow ; crops a hedge when he ought to be galloj^ing, or gallops when he ought to be quiet. He never will show ofi:' when I want him. Sometimes, he goes at a pace which surprises me. Sometimes, when I most wish him to make the running, the brute turns restive, and I am obliged to let him take his own time. I wonder do other novel-writers experience this fatalism ? They mud go a certain way, in spite of themselves. I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving the pen. The personage does or says something, and I ask, how did he come to think of that ? Every man has remarked in dreams, the vast dramatic power which is sometimes evinced ; I won't say the surprising power, for noth- ing does surprise you in dreams. But those strange characters you meet make instant observations of which you never can have thought previously. In like manner, the imagination foretells things. We spake anon of the inflated style of some writers. What also if there is an afflated style — , when a writer is like a Pythoness on her oracle tripod, and mighty words, words which he cannot help, come blowing and bellowing and whistling and moaning through the speaking pipes of his bodily organ. I have told you it was a very queer shock to me the other day when, with a letter of introduction in his hand, the artist's (not my) Philip Firmin walked into this room, and sat down in the chair opposite. In the novel of " Pendennis," written ten years ago, there is an account of a certain Costigan, whom I had invented (as I suppose authors invent their personages out of scrajDs, heel- taps, odds and ends of characters). I was smoking in a tavern parlor one night — and this Costigan came into the room alive — the very man : — the most remarkable resemblance of the printed sketches of the man, of the rude drawings in which I had de- picted him. He had the same little coat, the same battered hat, 38 ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. cocked on one eye, the same twinkle in that eye. " Sir,'' said I, knowing him to be an old friend whom I had met in unknown regions, "sir," I said, ''may I olfer you a glass of brandy-and- water ? " " Bedad^ ye may^' says he, " and I'll sing ye a song tu.''' Of course he spoke with an Irish brogue. Of course he had been in the army. In ten minutes he j)ulled out an Army Agent's account, whereon his name was written. A few months after we read of him in a jjolice court. How had I come to know him, to divine him ? Nothing shall convince me that I have not seen that man in the world of spirits. In the world of spirits-and- water I know I did : but that is a mere quibble of words. I was not surprised when he spoke in an Irish brogue. I had had cognizance of him before somehow. Who has not felt that little shock which arises when a person, a place, some words in a book present themselves to you, and you know that you have before met the same person, words, scene, and so forth ? They used to call the good Sir Walter the " Wizard of the North." What if some writer should appear who can write so enclianUngly that he shall be able to call into actual life the people whom he invents? What if Mignon," and Margaret, and Goetz von Berlichingen '" are alive now (though I don't say they are visible), and Dugald Dalgetty '^ and Ivanhoe were to step in at that open window by the little garden yonder? Suppose Uncas^* and our noble old Leather Stocking were to glide silent in? And dearest Amelia Booth, ^^ on Uncle Toby's arm; and 11. Mijsiioii.— A beautiful Italian jjirl in love with Wilhelm, her protector, a character in Goethe's Wilhelm 3Ieicfer'i> Apprenticeship. Marj^aret, the hero- ine of Goethe's Faust. 12. Goetz von Bevlicliiugen, or Gottfried of the Iron Hand, a warlike hero of the sixteenth century. Goethe had made him the title and subject of an historical drama. 13. Dugald Daljfetty.— One of Scott's great characters, from his novel of The Legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe, the hero of Scott's novel of the same name. 14. Uucas.—Deerfoot. A character introduced into three of Cooper's novels, viz.. The Last of the MoTncans, The Pathfinder (md The Pioneer. Leatlier Stocking, nicliname of Natty Bnmppo, in Cooper's novel of The Pioneer. 15. Amelia Booth,— The heroine and model of conjugal affection in Field- ing's novel of Amelia. Dr. Johnson called her the most pleasing heroine of all the romances. Uncle Tol>>% a quaint character from Sterne's Tn.^fram Shandy. Tiltlebat Titmouse, a linen draper's apprentice who had come into a large fortune, a character in Warren's Ten Thousand a Year. ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. 39 Titlebat Titmouse, with his hair dyed green ; and all the Crum- mies ""' company of comedians, with the Gil Bias troop; and Sir Roger de Coverley; and the greatest of all crazy gentlemen, the Knight of La Mancha, with his blessed squire ? I say to you, I look rather wistfully towards the window, musing upon these people. Were any of them to enter, I think I should not be very much frightened. Dear old friends, what pleasant hours I have had with them! We do not see each other very often, but when we do we are ever happy to meet. I had a capital half-hour -with Jacob Faithful last night ; when the last sheet was corrected, when " Finis " had been written, and the ijrinter's boy, with the copy, was safe in Green Arbor Court. So you are gone, little printer's boy, with the last scratches and corrections on the proof, and a fine flourish by way of Finis at the story's end. The last corrections ? I say those last cor- rections seem never to be finished. A plague upon the Aveeds ! Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I spy some, and should like to have a spud,'' and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning back to the old pages produces anything but elation of mind. Would you not pay a pretty fine to be able to cancel some of them ? Oh, the sad old pages, the dull old pages! Oh, the cares, the ennui, the squabbles, the repetitions, the old conversations over and over again ! But now and again a kind thought is recalled, and now and again a dear memory. Yet a few chapters more, and then the last : after which, behold Finis itself come to an end, and the Infinite begun. 16. Crummies Codipaiiy.— An itiKerant theatrical company described in Dickens's Nichola Nickleby. Gil Bias, a celebrated Spanish novel by Le Sage. Sir Roj^er tie Coverley, the grand old English knight who figures in Ad^li- son's Spectator. K.i»ij?lit of L*a Manclia, Don Quixote, the liero of Cervan- tes's romance of the same name. Sancho Panza was his " blessed squire." 17. Spud. — Dan. spyd, a spear; coincides with spit. A tool somewhat like a chisel, with a long handle, used by farmers for destroying weeds. 40 ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. On Letts's Diary. Mine is one of your No. 12 diaries, three shillings cloth boards; silk limp, gilt edges, three-and-six; French morocco, tuck ditto, four-and six. It has two pages, ruled with faint lines for memoranda, for every week, and a ruled account at the end, for the twelve months from January to December, where you may set down your incomings and your expenses. I hope yours, my respected reader, are large ; that there are many fine round sums of figures on each side of the page : liberal on the expenditure side, greater still on the receipt. I hope, sir, you will be " a bet- ter man," as they say, in '62 than in this moribund '61, whose career of life is just coming to its terminus. A better man in purse ? in body? in soul's health ? Amen, good sir, in all. Who is there so good in mind, body or estate, but bettering won't still be good for him ? O unknown Fate, presiding over next year, if you will give me better health, a better appetite, a better di- gestion, a better income, a better temper in '62 than you have bestowed in '61, I think your servant will be the better for the changes. For instance, I should be the better for a new coat. This one, I acknowledge, is very old. The family says so. My good friend, who amongst us would not be the better if he would give up some old habits ? Yes, yes. You agree with rae. You take the allegory ? Alas ! at our time of life we don't like to give up those old habits, do we ? It is ill to change. There is the good old loose, easy, slovenly bedgown, laziness, for example. What man of sense likes to fling it off and put on a tight prim dress-coat that pinches him ? There is the cozy wraprascal, self- indulgence — how easy it is ! How warm ! How it always seems to fit ! You can walk out in it ; you can go down to dinner in it. It is a little slatternly— it is a good deal stained — it isn't be- coming — it smells of cigar-smoke ; but — let the world call me idle and sloven. I love my ease better than my neighbor's opin- ion. I live to please myself; not you, Mr. Dandy, with your supercilious airs. I am a philosopher. Perhaps I live in my tub,' 1. In my Tul>,— Diogenes, the Greek philosopher, is said to have lived in a tub. ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. 41 and don't make any other use of it . We won't pursue further this unsavory metajDhor. Ah me ! Every person who turns this page over has his own little diary, in j^aper or ruled in his memory tablets, and in which are set down the transactions of the now dying year. Boys and men, we have our calendar, mothers and maidens. For example, in your calendar j^ocket-book, my good Eliza, what a sad, sad day that is — how fondly and bitterly remembered — when your boy went off to his regiment, to India, to danger, to battle per- haps. What a day was that last day at home, when the tall brother sat yet amongst the family, the little ones round about him wondering at saddle-boxes, uniforms, sword- cases, gun-cases, and other wondrous apparatus of war and travel which poured in and filled the hall ; the new dressing-case for the beard not yet grown; the great sword-case at which little brother Tom looks so admiringly ! What a dinner that was, that last dinner, when little and grown children assembled together, and all tried to be cheerful ! What a night was that last night, when the young ones were at roost for the last time together under the same roof, and the mother lay alone in her chamber counting the fatal hours as they tolled one after another, amidst her tears, her watching, her fond prayers. What a night that was, and yet how quickly the melancholy dawn came ! Only too soon the sun rose over the houses. And now in a moment more the city seemed to wake. The house begun to stir. The family gathers together for the last meal.' For the last time in the midst of ,them the widow kneels amongst her kneeling children, and falters a prayer in which she commits her dearest, her eldest born, to the care of the Father of all. O night, what tears you hide — what prayers you hear! And so the nights pass and the days succeed, until that one comes when tears and parting shall be no more. In your diary, as in mine, there are days marked with sadness, not for this year onlj', but for all. On a certain day — and the sun, perhaps, shining ever so brightly — the house-mother comes down to her family with a sad face, which scares the children round about in the midst of their laughter and prattle. They 4:2 KOUNDABOUT PAPEKS. may have forgotten — but she has not — a day which came, twenty years ago it may be, and which she remembered only too well : the long night-watch ; the dreadful dawning and the rain beating at the pane ; the infant speechless, but moaning in its little crib; and then the awful calm, the awful smile on the sweet cherub face, when the cries have ceased, and the little suffering breast heaves no more. Then the children, as they see their mother's face, remember this was the day on which their little brother died. It was before they were born: but she remembers it. And as they pray together, it seems almost as if the spirit of the little lost one was hovering round the group. So they pass away : friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown jDeople, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written ; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone. In this past year's diary is there any precious day noted on which you have made a new friend ? This is a piece of good fortune bestowed but grudgingly on the old. After a certain age a new friend is a wonder, like Sarah's child. ^ Aged persons are seldom capable of bearing friendships. Do you remember how warmly you loved Jack and Tom when you were at school ; what a passionate regard you had for Ned when you were at college, and the immense letters you wrote each other? How often do you write, now that postage costs nothing? There is the age of blossoms and sweet budding green : the age of generous summer ; the autumn when the leaves drop ; and then winter, shivering and bare. Quick, children, and sit at my feet : for they are cold, very cold: and it seems as if neither wine nor worsted will warm 'em. In this past year's diary is there any dismal day noted in which you have lost a friend? In mine there is. I do not mean by death. Those who are gone you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still ; and you love them always. They are 2. Sarah's Child Sarah, the wife of the patriarch, Abraham, bare him in her old age Isaac, " the child of promise." See Genesis, ch. xii— xxiii. KOUNDABOUT PAPERS. 43 i»ot really gone, those dear hearts and true ; they are only gone into the next room ; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you^ and you will be no more seen. The Last Sketch. Not many days since I went to visit a house where in former years I had received many a friendly welcome. We went into the owner's — an artist's — studio. Prints, pictures and sketches hung on the walls as I had last seen and remembered them. The implements of the painter's art were there. The light which had shone upon so many, many hours of patient and cheerful toil, poured through the northern window upon print and bust, lay figure and sketch, and upon the easel before which the good, the gentle, the beloved Leslie ^ labored. In this room the busy brain had devised, and che skilful hand executed, I know not how many of the noble works which have delighted the world with their beauty and charming humor. Here the i3oet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth ancl wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shak- speare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage. There was his last svork on the easel — a beautiful fresh smiling shape of Titania, such as his sweet guileless fancy imagined the Midsummer NigMs queen to be. Gracious, and pure, and briglijt, the sweet smiling image glimmers on the canvas. Fairy elves, no doubt, were to have been grouped around their mistress in laughing clusters. Honest Bottom's grotesque head and form are indicated as reposing by the side of the consummate beauty. The darkling forest would have grown around them, with the stars glittering from the midsummer sky : the flowers at the queen's feet, and the boughs and foliage about her, would have been peopled with 1. The beloved Leslie.— Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859), a (listinguished English artii^t, whose principal pictures are emboeliments of scenes from the works of great classical authors— Shakspeare, Cervantes, and Fielding. 44 ROUIS-D ABOUT PAPERS. gamboling sprites and fays. They were dwelling in tbe artist's mind no doubt, and would bave been develojDed by that patient, faitbful, a(bnirable genius : but tbe busy brain stopped working, tbe skillul band fell lifeless, tbe loving, bonest heart ceased to beat. Wbat was she to bave been — that fair Titania — wben per- fected by the patient skill of tbe poet, wbo in imagination saw the sweet innocent figure, and witb tender courtesy and caresses, as it were, posed and shaped and traced tbe fair form ? Is tbere record kept anywbere of fancies conceived, beautiful, unborn? Some day will they assume form in some yet undeveloped light ? If our l)ad unspoken tboughts are registered against us, and are written in tbe awful account, will not tbe good thoughts un- spoken, tbe love and tenderness, the pity, beauty, charity, wbicb pass tbrougb tbe breast, and cause tbe beart to tbrob witb silent good, find a remembrance too? A few weeks more, and this lovely offspring of the poet's conception would bave been com- plete — to charm tbe world witb its beautiful mirth. May tbere not be some sphere unknown to us where it may bave an exist- ence ? They say our words, once out of our lips, go traveling in omne OBVum^^ reverberating for ever and ever. If our words, wby not our tboughts ? If tbe Has Been, wby not tbe Migbt Plave Been ? Some day our sj^irits may be permitted to walk in galleries of fmcies more wondrous and beautiful than any achieved works wbicb at present we see, and our minds to behold and delight in masterpieces which jDoets' and artists' minds bave fatbered and conceived only. Witb a feeling mucb akin to that witb wbicb I looked upon tbe friend's — the admirable artist's— untinished work, I can fancy many readers turning to tbe last pages wbicb were traced by Charlotte Bronte's'^ baud. Of the multitude that have read ber books, wbo bas not known and deplored tbe tragedy of ber 2. Cliarlotte Bronte.— A distinguished novelist (1816-1855), iiiarle famous by her novel of Jane Eyre, published in 184'?. Her two sisters, Emily and Anne, also wrote several works of fiction, now rarely read. Charlotte inarried her father's curate. Mr. Nicholls. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte is a stan- dard biography. These gifted sisters were great admirers of Thackeray's writings. * For ftU ticxe, ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. 45 family, her own most sad and untimely fate ? Which of her readers has not become her friend ? Who that has known her books has not admired the artist's noble English, the burning love of truth, the bravery, the simplicity, the indignation at wrong, the eager sympathy, the pious love and reverence, the passionate honor, so to speak, of the woman ? What a story is that of that family of poets in their solitude yonder on the gloomy northern moors ! At nine o'clock at night, Mrs. Gaskell tells, after evening prayers, when their guardian and relative had gone to bed, the three poetesses — the three maidens, Charlotte, and Emily, and Anne — Charlotte being the " motherly friend and guardian to the other two" — began, like restless wild ani- mals, to pace up and down their parlor, 'making out' their wonderful stories, talking over plans and jDrojects, and thoughts of what was to be their future life. One evening, at the close of 1854, as Charlotte Nicholls sat with her husband by the fire, listening to the howling of the wind about the house, she suddenly said to her husband, " If you had not been with me, I must have been writing now." She ran up stairs, and brought down, and read aloud, the beginning of a new tale. When she had finished, her husband remarked, " The critics will accuse you of repetition." She replied, " Oh ! I shall alter that. I always begin two or three times before I ' can please myself." But it was not to be. The trembling little hand was to write no more. The heart newly awakened to love and happiness, and throbbing with maternal hope, was soon to cease to beat; that intrepid outspeaker and champion of truth, that eager, imj)etuous redresser of wrong, was to be called out of the world's fight and struggle, to lay down the shining arms, and to be removed to a sphere where even a noble indignation cor uUerius nequit lacemre^^ and where truth complete, and right triumphant, no longer need to wage war. I can only say of this lady, Dtdi tantum.-\ I saw her first just as I rose out of an illness from which I had never thought to recover. I remember the trembling little frame, the little hand, * Was no longer able to rend her heart. t I have merely seen her. 46 ROUKDABOUT PAPERS. the great honest eyes. An impetuous honesty seemed to me to characterize the woman. Twice I recollect she took me to task for what she held to be errors in doctrine. Once about Fielding ^ we had a disputation, She spoke her mind out. She jumped too ra]3idly to conclusions. She formed conclusions that might be wrong, and built up whole theories of character upon them. New to the London world, she entered it with an independent, indomitable spirit of her own; and judged of contemporaries, and especially spied out arrogance or affectation, with extraor- dinary keenness of vision. She was angry with her favorites if their conduct or conversation fell below her ideal. Often she seemed to me to be judging the London folk prematurely : but perhaps the city is rather angry at being judged. I fancied an austere little Joan of Arc * marching in upon us, and rebuking our easy lives, our easy morals. She gave me the impression of being a very j)ure, and lofty, and high-minded person. A great and holy reverence of right and truth seemed to be with her always. Such, in our brief interview, she appeared to me. As one thinks of that life so noble, so lonely — of that passion for truth— of those nights and nights of eager study, swarming fancies, invention, depression, elation, prayer ; as one reads the necessarily incomplete, though most touching and admirable history of the heart that throbbed in this one little frame — of this one amongst the myriads of souls that have lived and died on this great earth — this great earth ? — this little speck in the infinite universe of God, — with what wonder do we think of to-day, with what awe await to-morrow, when that which is now but darkly seen shall be clear! As I read this little fragmentary sketch, I think of the rest. Is it? And where is it? Will not the leaf be turned some day, and the story be told ? Shall the de- viser of the tale somewhere perfect the history of little Emma's ^ griefs and troubles ? Shall Titania come forth complete with her 3. Fielding.— Henry Fielding (1707-1754), the famous Englisli novelist. 4. Joan of Ave.— Known as the " Maid of Orleans," born in 1412, and burnt at the stake in 1431. 5. Iiittle Emma,— Like Thackeray and Dickens, Charlotte Bronte left a work unfinished by her sudden death. ROTTNDABOUT PAPERS. 47 sportive court, with the flowers at her feet, the forest around her, and all the stars of summer glittering overhead ? How well I remember the delight, and wonder, and pleasure with which I read " Jane Eyre," sent to me by an author whose name and sex were then alike unknown to me; the strange fascinations of the book ; and how with my own work pressing upon me, I could not, having taken the volumes up, lay them down until they were read through! Hundreds of those who, like myself, recognized and admired that master- work of a great genius, will look with a mournful interest and regard and curi- osity upon the last fragmentary sketch from the noble hand which wrote "Jane Eyre." SELECTIONS FROM THACKERAY TO COMMIT TO MEMORY. 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