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Show JUST LIKE CARLYLE. SaTage Epistle from the Biographer of Oliver Cromwell. An unpublished and most eharacter-j eharacter-j istic letter of Carlyle's has recently appeared in the London Times, he had been asked to subscribe toward the raising, at St. Ives, of a statue to the Protector, and his adherence was qualified qual-ified with no little ferocity for the people peo-ple who presumed to celebrate at the same time Cromwell and "King Hudson," Hud-son," the great railroad speculator. The project for the Cromwell monu- . , ment lapsed, and St. Ives waited until the other day for a memorial of its greatest citizen. The dedication, the Times correspondent assures us, passed off without the "ocean of flummery flum-mery and mere idle balderdash" which Carlyle deprecated. The biographer of Cromwell writes: "My private opinion, I confess, is that the present generation of Englishmen English-men who have filled their towns with such a set of 'public statues' as were never before erected by any people, ugly brazen images (to mere commonplace common-place adventurers with titles on them, and even sometimes to mere paltry scoundrels, worthy of immediate oblivion ob-livion only), and who have winded up their enterprises In the statue or memorial me-morial line by subscribing 25,000 to a memorial for King Hudson are not likely to do themselves or anybody much good by setting up statues to Oliver Cromwell, r fear they have forfeited for-feited the right to pretend to remem- ber Cromwell in a public manner. Cromwell's divine memory, sad, stern, and earnest as the gods, says virtually to them, 'Forget me and pass on, ye unhappy canaille; carry your offerings to King Hudson and strive to emulate him' Nevertheless, I have privately resolved, if such a thing do go on, to subscribe my little mite to it on occasion, oc-casion, and to wish privately that It may prosper much better than. I can with any assurance hope. I think it will be very difficult to avoid the in- , troduction of such an ocean of flummery flum-mery and mere idle balderdash into the affair (if the 'public' are fairly awoken to it) as will be very distressing distress-ing to any one who feels how a Cromwell Crom-well ought to be honored by the nation that produced him." New York Evening Even-ing Post. |