| Show An A English Tribute to 11 The Best Loved American Mark Twain Certainly Has That Tint Title If U President Roosevelt is the ike Most Popular He is s The Incarnation of American Spirit In England He H is America Personified His Wise Wie Head Hea J and Merry Heart a Joy JoyN Now N the Over Says Sidney Brook in n the the London Chronicle ARK m TWAIN the tho best loved at of MARK M Americans America as President P Roose Roos elt eit Is ha the tho most moat popular Is with Ith us He has laS come como to re 10 revive vive elve the degree which Oxford 1 Is about to II confer conCel on him and Oxford never novel nevermore moro more truly represented presented r the nation tItan than thanIn In iti thus Ihus honoring the most must distinctive figure lI ure In tho the ot of English letters nut But I 1 hope the leap of or welcome which all Englishmen feel In their hearts at ut atthe the mention of Twain will not stop at ala a merely tribute I Ih h po Ring King Edward will find dad means meana to stamp alamp It with liLa ilLs decisively national approval A compliment paid to Mark Tw Twain aln Is la moro more than tItan n a 1 compliment to loa n a great grast man a 1 great grout writer and a II citizen It Is a compliment to tile the American people and anel one ono that tha t will rome conic homo home to 10 them with lIh peculiar Rat gnat Ratification ral lOcation Mark Twain Is the tho national author of tho the UnIted Stated In a n sense lIen e In which wo to In to England at lit the prent nt m have havo no national author Tv Th feeling for COr him among his own 1011 1 Is la like Ilko that Unit of the och for Sir Walt Walter er SO 80 0 odd years ago IIRI 01 or like that of at atour our reUters fathers for tor or Thai lea There s Is III admiration In ha It ii pride end all nil an tan Immense and Intimate tenderness of affection To w i Item alone Is It given glen to 10 win will wina willa a ft sentiment of ot thIs thin quality to writers and occasionally by h tho the of or the tha human mind to generals Perhaps ono would ouM best take the ot of the Iho devotion to 10 Mark Twain by byde describing de It as iv II compound of or what Dickens enjoyed In 40 iO years enrA ago ngo and anal of what Lord Jord Rob rU enjoys enjo 11 today toda end by b adding something there thereto to for tor tho the extra Intensity In 1011 1111 of ot nil all nh Trans emotions Tho The popularity of at men even of at such uch n a as AN President Roosevelt Is a n poor and Slick IK lag light lI ht by liy the side of or this fuR full flame of 01 personal affection It U has lIaa gone geln out to Mark Twain not only for what he lao has written tot for the tha clean of his humor und and his hit unfailing command nd of oC the Ih primal feelings feeling for tor hIs hl tenderness his Jollity end and his power to 10 r read Jd tho the JI fl t of at boy odd and man and woman not only for or the tho tragedies and afflictions of or Je I fo Co no Mu unconquerably lCt only lilY his bravo ami and fiery nery dashes tyranny humbug anti and corruption co lion tion at III homo and tInd abroad but bait also be because cause entiRe his Jais countrymen feel eel him hInt to 10 bo ito bo ho boo all other oilier men mell the Incantation ot or ort iho tho t 10 American nn spirit That In is why wilY I that thin In all nil human proba prall probability II hla fila al ll to in J l nd will not be Io allowed al to close clona without such loh hon aon or nr and attention on Lt tho that king kinK alono alone CAn ca bulof I J remember r I u al 1 lUlls over a it year rear ago ngo in H a York club u II 01 of f t the Uia reward fernr In which Merit Mark Twain l i Tha Th club WON wait one In flU of aC r author actors tor and a 1111 tha New Je ew York Vork equivalent of at tint tho One doeg do not look for tor or ceremony In such Joh a I club yet yut when Mark Twain cattle camo In to tu lunch ha hD escorted tn to ine he table with will every o ot at Attention I and nna tin the whole company ny In 11 I was W II hardly hardi a 11 man without I distinction rose to greet him hiatt and re no remained standing stand In tilt till he had bud hu taken his I scat sal It was n a Incident but IL u cry ery significant one No Xo man jatan could J I wish tar for n at more mora genuine compliment I I titan thui one which violated the ed cd Informality of oC club etiquette Mark tark Twain beta hns crammed Into itata his I 71 1 yours years of 01 lift life experiences enough to satisfy 10 ordinary men inca and n a I zest t tIn In tho the enjoyment ot or them that seems cems to be one ono of ot natures gifts girts to Amerl cuns In one of the tho fragments of that delightful autobiography which Is li pui suing its unique and ami zigzag course courso through the pages of or the North Ameri American can cun Review ho he lt declares that t If I L should talk two horns hours a day dllY to the tha stenographer for a n hundred years I 1 should still never neer be he h tahiO to set act down a n tenth part pait of or the things which have hae Interested me In In my rn lifetime It was vaa Itself n a fortunate start that Mark Twain Tain should have havo been born horn among anton tho the rough actualities of u a Mis Missouri in the thirties where tho the Tom Tout Sawyer life all the th boy I L have hae known knowli or recollect collect n as ilK he ho told Rudyard Kipling found its Inimitable settIng to hand At 13 Mark dark ark out ont as ax IL a com COItt compositor and maci wandered w In Itt a few years luros over of the con cota half journeyman printer halt half Journalist It wax Willi while White on Oil Ills way to make a IL fortune out of cocoa on tho the Upper r Amazon mazon that he fell fail to the tha ex ax extreme extremo tropic gain of oC hili million renders be ho noath neath II th the tho seductions deductions of at n a pilots life on the Mississippi The fhe Civil War aVar Val put putu u fl plop flop to that career und end for lor a while Mark served nerved I belIeve beloV with the South Southern urn ern forces Then Clime canto a turn as Rs private private ate ole secretary or something of the sort to hl hIs brother who vito had laNil been lIcen appoint appointed ed cd un an ot or Nevada NelIda territory then soma prospecting for or sliver then Journalism Ism and finally nally tho the descent Into literature partially re ye reMoved Moved by hr lecturing Jew Tew men tacit have seen Heen moro of the world or from a 11 greater diversity nf ot standpoints Ho lie had hoel trawled It If not twice all oil around It I and tram front the of 01 tho the to the saver loel sovereigns of Qt Europe I he h has bus encountered pi pretty city nearly nil 1111 humanity at clone range ills Ilia lout last tour was one of 01 un unhappy happy compulsion Mark Twain was WM nil rill but 00 flO when tile tho publishing firm Orm with which he was W II connected wont bankrupt lie ne assumed n a moral mortal where there was no legal responsibility and nut et to work to pity pay off ote lila his debts It IL takes n IL mutt man to engage in and to 10 win wIll such lIuch a bout hout with will fate as that It ranks with Scott Hotti among the tho historic calamities ot of both haIti In the Bud nud with whit which It came cama and tho the I superb In which it 11 van WUI faced I paid Bald Just now that Americans American fel te 1 I Murk Mark Twain to 10 bo be the tha Incarnation of ot national jn Ills HIli humor I Is all fill fillA American A i no so too Is the tho largeness ot of othis othis his charity and ad hU his indomitable com coin commonsense and ead the tha freelances tre ot or hit hilt heart henrt sand and feelings which lies lien beneath Ills of ot cynicism Ho SQ too In is hU late capacity for tor or hla itis spiritual hardiness hi hIs Idealizing faith In wo Wa woman man mall and democracy lil hl touch of mite the tho ho ferocity h of ot his hla In Moro More titan than any unY man living hiving haw has Murk Mark Twain tho the world rId laugh hut 1111 hl his hiD humor him hats IH II always been on the his lie 10 of fl liu angels Ho ICe pan has gibed at lit much but I I never no lr at lit that for need and nobility And An though It la is u LI us I F fi fia a humorist that ho ito h will bs be remembered though ono no thoughts go BO ot Qt all al at the tM mention of ot his hili name Items tn to the tite therol jumping Frog rol und nod lil his immortal tu tue ale 10 with V th the tho aerman and Anet the tho thoI duel in III the Tramp Abroad I J boll ve vean an even ven higher claim ba bit l o snails made out for him na as ft it delineator a I v very ry Ho Home fo o pier mtr ot of boyhood und and an aM a I weaver of 01 romances of ot an a WI Ily lIy high Imaginative delicacy Papa gash hl his hili tor lor can o exceedingly jokes and he hO enjoys funny things unit and an lie liu IB is with wRit people he ho Joke ana an laugh laughs a iL I great ireal deal dOI hut but lie lib ie more interested In tn earnet hOoks and staid earnest subjects to 10 laik upon tapan than titan In humor hunter OUR cull ono ona Ko Ito la 18 i a WI ala much of It q n II philosopher as I think I think ho lID could coull have done a u gloat deal dealIn dealIn dealin In this direction If ho he had studied while young for tor ho seems to treason reason III out things no matter what 1 I Ido do not know leno whether Murk Mark Twain has brought his hIli fatuous famous white unit suit with whit him But In IllY case cusek If it in lii the course coume of ot tho the next few C ev lOS dos you see eo on the streets of at I London ondon a n man with n a vast t inane mano of gity hair blue eyes ing beneath heavy puckered brows brown a n grizzled moustache veiling u a mouth month of or equal qUAI strength and sensitiveness with witha a n One nan steadfast sta conquering look 1001 about him and a IL 17 drawl of ot Incomparable soft 11 oft off your our hotle hat to him with rev reo reverence for lor he ito Is Mark dank Twain London Chronicle |
