Lrri fo kU &ck mi aU
oiks ? th 4WU a vftMi
yaewslaa Cgmfanm TtmS gm
kanker pMt wka k &aaaiy
tai eaa aettkar mah
haard nex find aa iasarrti a cat
In a ward." It waa a tryiaff poalaai
for a luminary, aaaustomad U ehbu
brightly in a cirala of his owa, to find
his lijfht ''nearly extlajuishd by
the greater brillianee of a rival.
Grcville prophatiad that BofM
would revive when Maoaulav wanL
i rt Imtw nin AM Fl A AWAVtfr m v& am m J '
recorded not only that Rogers woa
"all alivo again," but that the other
guests under Lord Lansdowne's hospitable
roof had found their voices,
and on tho whole ho concludes they
were as well without Macaulay.
A somewhat similar state of things
on ono occasion though in this case
a matter of hours only, noting it was
chronicled by Darwin in his "Autobiography."
He relates that at a dinner
party where, besides himself,
were Babbago (of calculating machine
fame) and Sir Charles Lyell, who
both liked to talk, Carlyle silenced
them all by haranguing during the
wholo dinner on the advantages of silence
l "After dinner," says Darwin
"Babbage, in his grimmest manner,
thanked Carlyle for his very interesting
lecture on silence." These talkers
were not of the type that makes good
listeners. On the whole, it is tolerably
safe to conclude that, as we have already
said, the tyranny of the
is past. Good conversation is
still abundant, but it is maintained by
talkers who understand the cart of
cprlvene, and half that art is
ntarr rt of haieinjf, Ledon
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