The Talk Of Authors And Sound Men

líulwr, in or.ö of his hito i tions, has the fnlluwing: Everv muí) ni suund bruin whorii jou meet knowH fyituething worlh krioiiifí be'ter tliun yoursell. A man, uu the whole s u beller preceptor Iliun i hook. But what srhnlar doei not allow tliut tho dulli'st book can Kiiuijest I" lililí a lew al) I M sound ideuï Tafee duti man uréd o dull book ; il' you have anv bruin. oí yonr owii, the (ii.l man s more inslnictive than thedull book. Takit i groat bouk, ind its gieiit a thor; how niiiieurul)lv iibovo hi liuok ii t!ie in.liui', il you c;m coax him to coiifinu lus mimi t you, and lel himself o.;t. Wfial uunld vu ii..l givetn luive mi hmir's IViink t;Jk witfi Sliakspi-iire if Shiikfpyaro ere O')W Kring-. f V"ii caniidt lliink i yoiiieli s ■ puorly .s n t to teel -ure tiiat, at the end i f the tiour, y 'U woulil li;ivc (,( sotno'tiing nut. ol liim wlmli fit' y yt'al'á' stud. wtuld nol .ntiii-.e t let ynn gt "Ni of nis pliiys (ïnldsüiitli was Hud by Garrii-.k lo "uriie iV m ungt-l, ;ind talk like peor Poll." But w hui does thu', prove? Nolliii girm e 'li;n tin?, that llm pluyer could not latliom tne poet. A muil lio w rites libe m inf;l Oüimot uiwayn t nik likt; pooi' l'oll - Th;it G")dsuii h, 'in his p. ;ic;h ivlmed ent, nwed by ii J hiMion, biillifd by t DhiHwell, talked very ii.liibly, 1 win well und. -rsland ; bul let iny fiei.tle reader ol liiiman bniiim and Iminai. liear s h -vi: L'it (jn'ldsmilli all to liin.sell over i b. ttle ol Madeir, i'lOoidwnUh'n owfi lodaing - liilked io (4r'ldtiiith loviiifilv and lev.-rentlv ub'OOt " The Travelier" ná "The Vicar ot V .küliul.l " and sniv I am llü'l would tiave gone aviy with the i-onvu-.iion tliüt l liern was soinethhiji in : ie well-i-pniifi of mi mitch i;eiiiu more maivelluns llian is dia mondlike spii.y - übnieti'in'fï in jmor Oliver (-Joldsinit:) iniiicasiirabl; greïlUr han t.lione luint and li ngni.-ir.ary expressions.of' the inau wh'ui; et survive in the excji'i.-ite poem n the incomparable novel. I remeuiber lein told by a personaje wlio was botli u very pojiular writer and brilliair conversur. tliat the poet Campbell remimlcd him of Goldsmith - his conversalion was so inferior to lus lame. I fíoulá not di-ny ii ; lor I had itten met Campbell in general society, and l.is talk had disapp'iinted mt!. Three da VS afierward Oailipbeil a-ked tne to come and snp wiih him 'efe a tete. 1 did so. I went at len o'clock. I staid till dawn ; ;md all iny reciilleftion-1 of the most pparklfnf; talk I have ever heard in drawiiiiiroom aflnrd fíe' bi riff to equal ihe rioton afflu ence of wit, of hutnor, of fanc-y, of genius, that the great lyrúr poiued forlh in hii wondert'] monologue. Monologue it was ; he had it allhiin-elf.