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Show I JUST LIKE CARLVLB, Java Epistle front Ihe ningraphar Qr ll..r Cromwell. An unpublished and most characteristic character-istic letter of Carlyle's has recently appeared In the London Tlmee, II had v been asked to subscribe toward the , raising, at Ht. Ives, of a statue to the Protector, and hla adherence was qualified qual-ified with no little ferocity for the pert- i ' , pie who presumed to celebrate at th" , ' ' same time Cromwell and "King Hud- . son," the great railroad apeculator. Th project for the Cromwell monument monu-ment Inpsed. and St. Ive waited until ; ' the other day ror a memorial of lis , grestest rltlxen. Th dedication, the l Times correspondent assure us, (: passed off without the "ocean or flum- , mery and iiire Idle balderdash" which ' Carlyle deprecated. The biographer of Cromwell wrltea: , "My private opinion. I ronfeaa, la ! that the present generation of Engllah- ! men who have filled their towna with J such a set of 'public tntue' a were never before erected by any people, ( ; ugly hraien Image (to mere common- 5 i place adventurer with title on them, I nd even sometime to mere paltry I scoundrels, worthy of Immediate ob- j llvlon only), and who have winded up f their enterprise In th statu or me- i moilal line by subscribing 26.000 to a memorial for King Hudson are not i likely to do themselves or anybody I murh good by setting up statues to Oliver Cromwell. I fear they have for- felted the right to pretend to remem- I ( her Cromwell In a publlo manner. I Cromwell s divine memory, aad, atern, ! and earnest aa th gods, saya virtually ' 1 to them, 'Forget me and paaa on, ye t unhappy canaille; carry your offerings to King Hudson and strive to emulate i him!" Nevertheless. I hav privately f 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 hop. I think It I will be very difficult to avoid the In- ' traduction of such an ocean of Turn- ; mery and mere Idle balderdash Into th affair (If the 'public' are ralrly awoken to It) as will be very distress- Ing lo any one who reela how a from- ! well ought to be honored by the nation ! that produced hlin." New York Even- ' Ing Post. , |