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THE RECORD, SATURDAY. JUNE 9, 1923. NO. 2132.

AN EVENING WITH THACKERAY Archbishop Clune's Eloquent and Instructive

Address on the Great English Novelist and

his Works

I thought est and gentle and good. nor vest his all in a bogus Indian Company enhanand sustained the service would never end, immense fortune, own his only the not nor reputation. author's the the organists voluntaries Paris -Sketch Book- whicii appeared upper but also Clive's portion, and a few unhappy. very the is he of where sermon." picture ntimate a lishinent, is preacher's the It 'cis 1840 he began campaigner In old the later. which Never before has the height_ of and and hundreds it. time calls the of are LonWe "Slaughter House" he and middle class life recognised The scene is changed. and historic connection with the had purloined and put away during power of oratory always pages His friends he designates the master by the euphbeen young Pendennis just a typical young now in his narrow cell. don "Punch," in whose comic as the gift of the Archbishop, beher time as manageress and househe of the day not at all unlike what that onious title of Dr. "Swishtail" man comforts characteraudience the an all most on everyand came; provided best impressed soon his have The crash so s ngulariy much of keeper. the cause of certain floggging accompaniThackeray himself was in the days Every article of sold. needed and he is worshipped by istic writings appeared, especially that as .ney were on the occasion of ILs I do not thing had to benobly knowledge youth. the to the infiteion of irresponsible of his ments delightof Majesty's and servitors the to His droll the up at and given lecture inimitably of inmate's (Irv, c's series furniture was but We COM111..11 intend to dwell long on Pendennis IIis power that were t11,11 But his life was tapering out house. The :ire on May 22nd. ful letters in whch the cockney speech creditors by the old colonel. His life atthe I could not forbear saluting and pointnest find him at the Charterlssuse, gently and besides his customary and beauty of expression reminded one and pronunciation of "Jeames" buris now a hell. He, who was so guileless old snort the timid, you a to London, out Friars, ing Grey tendant, he has two faithful nurses of a master pianist's skill in producLondon _footman is so ludicrously the so upright so unselfish so good becomes idle boy, more rather Pendennis, a lean. yellow, wisp and de'icate Major Ethel harmony him, sighted. and rivetted Old with shades first abuse. always whet haunting But vilest were who ing the lesqued. the target for the of of a man, selfish, worldly and false in addicted to drawing and caricaturing of music. There was no hesitation in Madame de Florae, the Leonore adattention' /if the reading world on him and Mrs. McKenzie unmercifully pelts at everything. in hair and. teeth than to conetrotiig Letts anil Coeek, was the clever and fascinating pubthe selection of the words most apt. head all the stinging epiformer days, who watched in an bowed his old the of reada type the nut but conscience, and nurse heart fond of reading Language respondand most telling. joining chamber. "One night the lication in "Fraser's Magazine" enwhich a shrew's tongue has on masters his by rakes who used to ogle from Club thets rogue and swindler, her daughter's ing prescribed ed to his skilled touch like the keys titled "Barry Lyndon.' entered that chamber, and at the look Master's windows in Pall Mall, and hang on to tap; and receiving a [truism nose in his the bear to of the instrument to the Unable in the woman's countenance Madame etc. murderer, in whose --a ctsfieurenobility the and of encounter bad tails coat thrilled pugilistic the was remarks first truly audience the The hand. de Florae started up. Ile is very As Anthony Trullope taunts of that old catamaran, of his grand houses they were welcomed for ment whicn ne himself is scarcely a book to Mayfair at arrested not only by the theme by Lyndon relations he wanders a great deal," the nurse "Barry rich his of doors of a dissums up the reminisences Ile inall grave. salacious fell his to and their than lady bore at and more wonder French hut admire, The steals to he treatment, whispered. like, but one being politely closed on him, sipated youth. remained for us at this early age in a few tense power and an hour and a half. un' f. stantly on her knees and away from the house of his son Clive staler:7)gs. enjoy tor its consum-nnte after time script, His Grace kept and touching wore; the language, Some In imagination mastery. What reader of Pendennis can forget where he finds neither rest nor mercy rigid in prayer. our effort and flow of Ianwoes and ossitalatee of his schwa days Ethel came iti with a scared face to you construction and literary catiacily. that chapter where young Pendennis and through the influence of a friend ul and somehow or -and in this precocious summary we Thackeray never did anything better "He is calling for pale group. he is admitted into the house of the failing ignominiously to take his after powers by riper his t was demanded get a foretaste of Barry is an adshe said going up lady," Lyndon. University, Charterhouse. dear Barry the again at than Cambridge Brothers at Poor degree of Thackeray's nov- of characterization., "Cold, chilblains, a v.: itindrel as the to Madame de Florae who was still Greyfriars, which was a sort of gloriweighed down by a sense of his disvxtuals, venturer, as great enough At one pericel, hal dinners. he els and characters. lie dons the gown, kneeling, "and just now he said mind oil Mall Lae conceive, mud yet grace, extravagence and indebtedness fied workhouse. The "caning awful" so caning awful." written. the audience would rock with laughhis story is so, artfully wanted Pendennis to take care of his occupies the single room, eats the dolHies from the place like one demented She you." is ahnost imposknow ter at the neatly veiled humour of the was apparently the only external aid it not that unbrowill his poor He told, the into plausibly amongst boy. and ed bread, and bursts unannounced then invoked and indiscriminately re- sible not to entertain something of a Archbishop. at another the orator was hid her tears as she spoke; she went public with that grip of enthralling cle's rooms in London one fine morning thers sits in the chapel of the order. tells loudly applauded, at another the lis- l'ed on in order to infuse knowledge Hearing The description of the colonel's death frien4ly feeling for him. He into the room where Clive was at the admiration unkempt and distraught. and pleasure and interest young, sharper teners paid him the finest compliment intu the minds of the card a most the his own adventures as bed post: the old man within it talkhued scene is considered voices in the outer chamber the old which time has hardly weakened-a those of us whose memories can carry of all in the silent tear shed ofwhen heartless dissolute, a as the liar, At a through bully, ranked literature. a ed rapidly for awhile and then again touching in English cautiously- peeps Colentitled him to be will that major book nisr us back thirty or forty years Ills Grace described the death love who, 't.td neither he would sigh and be still: and then this period Thackeray's daughter was door slit and seeing his nephew, withIt is hard to imagine probably read our own bitter exper- stretch, arming the stars of the literary world. onel Newcome. who recompasi..ien, as ais in RitOld Lady the with a heart rending voice would call gratitude of the moral his head instantly. his amanuensis. afterwards adumbrates draws title Its one playing in such a short time on table iences and recollections of school disShe was inout, "Leonore, Leonore!" garded gambling on the grezn She tells us in the introduction chie. It is the week day preacher's he is vanity is the predominant story. every shade of the emotion -spectrum, cipline and brutality in the following as the highest occuuation to which a The pahe and this to kneeling by his side now. in his old carcase that when her father came gredients on Solomon's text, "Vanitas. sermon but His Grace succeeded in calling ail lines which Thackeray wrote when apthe and man could devote himself vanitas." would not for the whole world show tient's voice sank into faint murmurs; est part, he requested her to leave the vanitatum et omnia the emotions into play in that famous prise hing the shores of Greece under announthen and now so carried away by his frankand wig an is his moan after a reader in only room and when she returned Though the story itself is vague himslf to his own nephew lecture. the nom-de -plume of Michael Angelo ness and his plausibility as to almost ced he was not asleep. hour or so, she found him the manwandering, yet there is something in less and toothless deshabille. Why it papa and mamma had Rt. Rev. Monsignor N'erlin,t, in in"If his Titmarsh. in succeeds two Barry in the whets portion good suffused a face hour, uscript completed, his the telling which makes every At the usual evening took Morgan, the valet, troducing His Grace, said that the not followed the faith of their fathers rejoice he chicanery, and to grieve when description to you, let me add that the perfect in itself-something in the bechapel bell began to toll. and Thomas hours every morning to arrange his fame of Archbishop Cline :is a preach- and thought proper to send their only illustrate will quotation One the New Ethel feebfails. old colonel had a niece. Thackeray describes how Newcome's hands outside the bed witching blend of colours in that pictoilet. er was a household word in Australia beioved son into ten years' banishthe mordant sarcasm of which Thack come, who was tenderely attached to of society that indelibly stamps ly beat time. And just as the last old wig had to be greased and frizzed and that hi speeches in public had ment of infernal tyranny. misery and It is Barry's ture Cray was such a mister. smile his novel In parchment face had Proud, capricious, independent old mind. the him. reader's en the how it sled, bell struck, a peculiar sweet marked him out as one of the greatest annoyance; to give over the fresh feelagainst gambling of defence artiin pen, energetic till Ethel the Miss hut of rubbed was strokes and disdainful rather few master Commonwealth: a powdered the by shone over his face, and he quickly liftto be orators in the ings of the heart of Michael Angelo he calls contemptuously the gilded curher flashing beauty. But the horny cheeks he quickie of down and the days tears mantled little a blushes head Thackeray his up ficial practically till that night it was den- Titmarsh to the discipline of vulgar what -keeper ed "Of cant of that day: life how his old ribs had to be encased in "shop society her fiance is killed in a duel when trappings of ied his flock to have the opportunity said "Asisum." and fell back. It was bullies, who in order to send tender vulgar national tains and give when the wedding day was already named. of late years," he says, "a to cast a slur dances on them and lays bare to pubof hearing him as a lecturer. and of stars and padded in order to the word we used at school young children into the temple chosen has no showed hypocprejudice tear, years the shrinkall old no many shed the his she of to Though execration benefit and lic gaze reaping the names were called and, lo, he whose shape and stability learning drive them on with clenched on the character of men of honour the rotteness, had to be of emotion, her heart had all boots sign child, his outward little the shams, a of study of English literature which all of how racy that body, as was fainted ing heart they if abuse; play fists and low in the profession of Thackeray changed. is instantly that lay ever festering and infecting he knew to have been the happy and his name, and stood in the if they engaged polished, his gloves cleaned, his hat enmen upon "fie ' The revived them with a curse; They cry the author so might come from answered that which always words in effect was traces the linen And his proud lot of the Archbishop. behind. Master." and his with brushed of them presence were miserable, consoled But I should like to meant to produce in the reader's mind gaged in play. Beau great the pen if a master of the spiritual Monsignor referred to the worthy ob- brutal jeers-if, I say, my dear parents unmaculate that the We now come to the last of his honourable know how much more life the process of the transformation ject, the work of the Catholic Wois disgust for what was wicked Brummel once asked the name of his works that I will treat of in details. of giving me the inestimable are than ours livelihood instead of modes humtheir and now benefit was nature heart whose thus proud for human Guild, in when that how only Social men's selfish, mean It was laundress. His own favourite, and in the opinion advantage of a ten years' classical edThe Broker of the Exchange. who bled, purified. spiritualised and transwhat is noble and good financially the lecture was given. accoutred and leaning on his cane. that of most people, his masterpiece, "Esand kept me at home with and sells and admiration forour buys ucation and and bears bulls suffering. forward."' and sorrow by appearance. Mr. characters formed his "As we luring the old major made The Cathedral Choir under mond." It alone among his novels is my dear thirteen sisters, it is possible dabbles with lying loans and trades face of the emerges from, her grief like a in 1, page 95. "I will ask She sal. in says depicted he agony The others are Seeing Sydney Smith rendered the portion of I should have liked this country of a a complete story. secrets, what is he but State in bestowing only Charity not alarm, or in brother of Mercy the a in asked Sister and he leave as a man young Pendennis the 27th Psalm (as indicated strings of incidents or memoirs of inAttica in sight of the' blue shores ofI gamester? The merchant, who deals uttering in alms, and her heart's too occasionally wealth After but her them happened. introduce to had is a picture of But what It lecture) with great sweetness and finrather. written. dividuals which this letter is in teas and tallows, is he any better? afflicted love now on the poor and step down from the platform and talk of Queen Mr. Taylor (Cathedral organist a few incoherent sentences young Penesse. was made so miserable in youth by a will English lifehasin tothebe reign His bales of dirty indigo are his dice. You creatures. the words, are good and God's out they among If gasped them. last at about read in its hisconnected dennis rendered the Dead March in Sattl after all Anne, and classical education that His cards come up every year instead kindly, tit love and shake hands with "I'm plucked." find her at the colonel's death bed. her The meaning of the the description of the death scene of v ith it is disagreeable in my eyes and is a reproduction beIt setting. is torical sea the and minutes of every ten hands arranging the flowers in the The strains of the them: if they are silly, to laugh con Greek in words was not understood by the vaColonel Newcome. fore our eyes of the sort of life the I have the same recollection of You call the Profesvases, and providing the comforts and oil." his green table. honourable march have a wonderful effes-t. fidentially in the reader's sleeve if they cuous old noddle, and thinking it regentry led. their occupations, follies one where a my youth as I have of castor sion of law an abuse he liked and needdisgraceful knew to of she delicacies heartless, form and some to the Alas! wicked are ferred deliver to Cairo). rising and vices-the early part of the day His Grice on (From Cornhill to man will lie for any bidder. lie down which terms corporal punishment he shrieked out ed. given mainly to hunting, hawking. or lecture. was the recipient r)f a great from them in the strongest many of us who are growing old have poverty for the sake of a fee and colonel the old that said I impeecations have of. favorite admits his Ile of recolour politeness one in the audience. reception from cockfighting-then the stately and still the castor oil flavour wealth, lie down right because wrong stole away without his friends knowwasn't done in public. I am it Pendennis, hoped by drinking. followed was went on as follows:This doctor a call lection of our school days. to The You faded His elaborate dinner, the heavy by is in his brief. old his whereabouts. of that anything ing follow to be tempted oaths reason the conversation garnished young generation have this way. discovery took place in room dandy to his club, and clrawng humane, more gentler, that grateful which is on a certain day in De year scene, 2. Every on Page breakfast Continued the imof describe and more efficacious methods ember the old boys educated at Grey supposed to be one of the finest pieces parting knowledge now prevail and re -union annual Ladies and Gentlemen, Friars had their of word painting in the English lanthat around school like home memory to on I wish you would try to forget just Amongst them was young Pendennis, pass life guage; but I must and affection may cling to in after not more for an hour or so that I am an Archhearts, a faithful friend and devoted admirer warmer and types and nobler me with delight and pleasure, which of the old colonel in poverty as well bishop-that you have heard touching and thrilling scenes recoil from with bitterness in memory usual the of After preach or preform a Religious Funcas in affluence. are to be met in the next work For I want and heart. viz,. on, tion in the Cathedral. toasting and speech -making in t he Thackeray, that 1 will dwell At the age of eighteen Thackeray the to adjourn favor they hall, my you to be introduced to, and to listen is banquet which Newcomes," "The L'nversity where chapel for Vespers, and opposite them to, the sermons of an old friend of is sent to Cambridge toe. he does not seem to have distinguished or pensioners Trolthe poor ranged mine instead. who in his day styled are Anthony as "Newcomes," The himself very much. After a year or preacher --a himself the "week -day" brothers and among them the dear lope truly says, is rather a slice of so he left without having taken out are we imagine family us a Let great big man, six feet four inches in of colonel. old memoirs the biographical Direction: Union Theatres, Ltd. his degree. being probably plucked like The organ height, with a broken nose and a head listening and looking on. called "Newcomes" rather than a roscapegrace-Penhis dashing young COMMENCING SAT U RDA the centsinging in nit his shoulders so abnormally large story unite The all and peals in itself. novel mance or now entered into posthat at the age of 4 his grand -father's dennis. Having words of 37th psalm: Twice Daily at 2.30 and 8. res round an Anglo-Indian of the grand name session of the fortune bequethed to His Newcome Colonel hat hardly fitted him. type. old chivalrous which will, father's his the under him Thackeray, is William Makepeace vs- 23. The steps of a good man I think you will and his son Clive. yielded over £500 per annum. we find And greatest of English novelists. Though are ordered by the Lord. LADIES' "GIBSONIA" WOOL VESTS AND BLOUSES search fiction in vain for a nobler type him for the next few years leading a old PRICED. the I have never read a life or biography than Ile delighted in his way. rn APPEALINGLY manhood MOST Christian in of -now life of roving 13ohemian kind colonof Thackeray, I fancy that I knots him the days early In his colonel. Germany cultivating the acquaintance 24. Though he fall, he shall not young Gibsonia Natural Wool and Cotton; short sleeves; more intimately than any other author in other VESTS, like LADIES' romance a in had el anon and Italy of Goethe then in be utterly cast down, for the Lord The reason is because his novels relight weight, W., 7/11, OS., 8/11. X.O.S.. 9/11. He was sent to learn fencing men. Paris where he settled down with the short sleeves; Lord upholdeth him with His veal the personality, the individuality RAY SCOTT to one of the French emigres families painter. a LADIES' VESTS, in Gibsonia Natural Wool and Cotton; ambition of becoming hand. I'm the human side of the author to a in England. then living in exile that he would heavy weight. W., 10/6; OS., 11/6. Assisted by LITTLE WILLIE in an sleeves. when went fuller degree than the works of any Though soon convinced short often weight, Newcome light Tom acquirWool, afraid he now am 2a. haw been young and Entirely New Vent hspeal Act. never become.a great artist. LADIES' VESTS, its Gibsonia Natural of French the father who was the fencing master old, yet have I not seen the W., 9/6; O.S., 10/6; X.O.S., 12/6. HARRY WEBSTEE$ in tot the fulsome pages of a biography ed a thorough knowledge lessons took sleeand short home, purity weight. from was seed Parisian his Wool, mediuin righteous forsaken, nor which he spoke with LADIES' VESTS, in Gibsonia Natural Leonore. could disclose. You have only to read ECCENTRIC COMEDIAN works. French front his daughter begging their bread. "The and used to good purpose in his remem11/6; 0.5., 12/0; X.O.S.. 14/6. W ves. up. "Pendennis," "Vanity sprang lit New Nutni.ere. attachment sleean will and short 'the readers of his novels Newcomes." and "Philip," and in these LADIES' VESTS, in Gibsonia Natural Wool; heavy weight; The attachment was scented out by "As we came to this verse. I chanORCHESTRA-DE-LUXE ber how frequently the dialogues are 16/8. Thack' X.O.S. 15/6; OS.. W., 14/6; sparkling pages the pithy ves. inethudistical a and stepmother, old towards his ced to look tip from my book interlarded with French phrases reCotton cream, tight eray as he was an.1 as he lived takes LADIES' BLOOMERS, in Gibsonia Wool and 6/6; old bigot, who abhorred the idea of a and ludicrously he the swarm of black- coated pensioners X.O.S., 7/6. Tom living shape and colour before his eyes how faithfully BOX PLANS weight; elastic waist and knee. W.. 5/11; O.S., marriage with a French papist. and vulgar procorrupt the and amongst them sate Thomas New produces creations, heavy course are of India, Natural, These books to and Cotton, \Vool is ordered off society Newcome which Gibsonia in FOR FIRST SIX DAYS French BLOOMERS, of His dear old head was bent LADIES' come. 11/so X.O.S., marvellous creations of his brain, his nunciations the Marchioness of Es10/6; distinguished 0.S., a became \V., 9/11; he where weight; elastic at waist and knee. down over his prayer book; there was ladies from and imagination, his artistic skill, natural, heavy Bier, where he married and amassed the Ile wore no mistaking him. mond to Mrs. General Baynes were 1.ADIES' BLOOMERS, in Gibsonia Wool and Cotton;0.S.. 12/6; X.O.S., They are also mir so knowledge of life. a large fortune running into ever knee. W.. 11/6; Soon, however. through and waist of. at black gown of the pensioners of the band guilty of weight; shaped series a through rors, reflecting lahks of rupees, but he thousand many Order speculations His Friars. unlucky of Grey and Hospital gambling 13/-. pictures the miseries and unhappiness the pure attachment for Leonore livHe lost his all, principal and interest. He of the Bath was on his breast. the of his school days; the foibles, Season opens Monday next 10 a.m On the death of his wife, he and ed on. LADIES' COMFY "GIBSONIA' WOOLLEN COMBINATIONS. is thrown on his own resources, there among the poor brethren. stood imEngland to Clive, struggles, lapses, the wayward Seats booked for Matinee and evening son, only PRICES. sends his he war KEEN when AT psalm. their to period, this responses at the is just it uttering the Reservations at manhood; during this Season. pulses of his early and he himself follows in a few years. twenty-seven, that as Leslie Stephen The steps of this good man had betn and Cotton; Theatre 1A22221 in strict order of apbroad lines of his temperament end Of course the mothers who had daughLADIES' COMBINATIONS, in Gibsonia Natural Wool "having no decree; Johnson 'Heaven's Samuel by of hither said ordered rev18/6. of plication_ character: the understratum ters ins the matrimonial market had Winter weight; short sleeves. W., 15/-: OS., 16/6; X.OS., money and no prospects he naturally to this almshouse! Here it was orweight; a rich man erence, morality and religion that of.111 eye on the S011 of such LADIES' COMBINATIONS, in Gibsonia Natural Wool; light married; alas! the wedlock that began dained that a life, all love, and kindthe mothers all of ten lies almost hidden under the cycleverest the And 17/8. soon X.O.S., 16/6; was O.S., W., 15/6; short sleeves. end. so brightly and so happily ness and honour should nical jibe and the caustic nature of weight, was Mrs. McKenzie. the Scotch widow overclouded by the darkest cloud that LADIES' COMBINATIONS, in Gibsonia Natural Wool; medium heard no more of prayers and psalms his style. the "old campaigner" as she was calAfter How dared that. can overshadow married life. after W.. 18/8; 0.S.. 21/-; X.O.S., 22/8. sleeves. sermon short and 1811, with THE WORKING MAN'S BUTCHER. Rosie. Born in Calcutta, India, in daughter. a led who had of mark and he yonthe birth of the third child, the wife 1 to lie in a place LADIES' COMBINATIONS, in Gib:unia Natural Wool; Winter Weight, Thackeray when a little boy of seven two Scotch songs as her dowry, an 2d. TO 4d. PER POUND CHEAPER poor. 0! pardon you whom he so tenderly loved became X.O.S.. 23/6. the among 22/i: der OS.. she W., 2r/-; as sleeves. Rosie. short called in sent home to England for his eduTHAN ANY OTHER BUTCHER. angel the mother remedy, every tried noble soul! I ask forgiveness of you W 23/8; 0.S., 25/-; X.O.S., 27/6. Quality, encircled or Better lit hair, angel's cation and upbringing just like Clive insane. no He the 334 BULWER-STREET stroked, purnu all to expense. but weight, a world that has so treatlight of spared .ebeing is lie four for Cream. arm again Wool; Clive Gibsonia plump Like in her Newcome. the angel with LADIES' COMBINATIONS. (Opposite Commonwealth Hotel). She had to lie placed under ed you: vim- nut- beater, vou so hotsin attitude X.O.S., 24/posing 23/-: always ceived into the home of his maitlen pose. W., 21/-; they were sleeves. short where restraint in a private asylum, Weight, But portrays aunt. whom he afterwards of endearing affection in public. years. LADIES' COMBINATIONS, in Gibsonia Vool; Cream, Heavy she outlived him for thirty and immortalises in "The Newcomes" when Rose's sleeves were pulled up life may he short sleeves. W.. 22/- OS., 24/ domestic his Henceforth sleeves Honeyman. wore of Martha tinder the mime on one occasion (ladies WILL INsummed tip in these saddest of ss/1 Who, that has read chat delightful "SHOW ROOM WEEK" IS A SELLLING EVENT THAT then) her arm was all black and blue THE lines of. Shakespeare --work, will ever forget th it brisk, +trim (rum the pinching, and scratching she PLEASE EVERY MOTHER, MISS AND MAID IN DEED my and stately little body. atCred on State onward received fretri the fond mamma in one grief lies COMMUNITY-COME "My which Well the old camoccasions in the cashmere shawl ..f her tantrums. joy behind." the good Colonel sent her Iron, India paigner out generally' and out manoue AUTHOR. the THE with young Clive; svh.s admired T'HACKERAY creel all the other mothers and won. EAST PERTH CUP OF £200 EAST PERTH CUP OF £200 word "gentlewoman" of all others in Rosie becomes Clive Newcome's wife from choice as Irvin much so Nut with filled selis literatthe English language: who kept a and the old colonel's heart EAST PERTH CUP OF 1:200 necessity Thackeray takes up mans EAST PERTH CUP OF £200 He buys a house for them, fills ect boarding-house at tlrightts.i. but ley. and for profession, his ure as ftwni"cutlers costly prohe rooms with the most had seen better days: whose. LAST BIG EVENT OF THE SEASON. years he had to face the great He ture the wardrobes with the most cost and batter pudrliags" were the delight blem of earning his daily bread. RAMAN TROTTING ASSOCIATION, INC. cor the cellars with the best WEST dresses. Paris le THE of all visitors and beerderc, and the as appointment an secured All goes well till brands of wine. envy of all the other leyurslitoehituse a London newspeper fur incletit reefs .\ R. FLINT- Secretary a as From the tender the (fear uhf colonel. as I trace lights keepers in the enw? I fis intimate knowledge of toe sisung lion in action. lout as .imple as a chili' care of this mates-lel air.' shades of Parisian life supplied and as In urepsritery him with racy matter for his weekly au business matters is inditteel Thackeray is sent to i school at Chiswick and later on to letter, as well as rich material for the estabeducational advanced more a SW111,11111); man --a honourable in the qua,* whit does not believe nostrums he prescribes and takes your that ear your in guinea fur whispering forsooth! it is a fine morning and yet, before down a gallant man who sits the baize and challenges all comers his money against theirs, his fortune against theirs, is proscribed by your It is a conmodern, moral a Lurid. spiracy of the middle classes against gentlemen. It is only the shop -keepday er cant that is to go down now a I say that play was an institution of towrecked been has it chivalry and gether with the other privileges of men of birth." Thrackery had now become famous to a limited extent by the exquisite nature of his contributions to periodicals such as "Punch' and "Frazer's to do wished Magazine" but he something greater. something spirit this In less ephemeral. and he now set to work and its 1846 the two following years there issued numbers from his pen in twenty-four soon a novel called "Vanity Fair" that gripped the imagination of the reading

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