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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892 By: Various |
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VOL. 103 SEPTEMBER 17, 1892 HEARING HIMSELF. ( MYSTERIOUS MEM. FROM A HAWARDEN NOTE BOOK. ) Exceedingly kind and flattering of MAX MÜLLER! "I hope there are but
few here present who have never enjoyed the privilege of listening to
Mr. GLADSTONE." Ha! ha! He little thought there was one there who
had not "enjoyed that privilege." Have enjoyed most privileges in
my time, but never that of "hearing myself as others hear me" more or
less. "Unavoidable absence of Mr. GLADSTONE!" Ho! ho! Then my disguise
was perfect. Get myself up as a Liberal Unionist, with wig and
eye glass. Not likely anybody would recognise me in that rig. Rather enjoyed myself and my paper, "Phoenician Elements in the
Homeric Poems." Most seductive title! Such a popular touch about it!
Think I shall have it printed as a "leaflet" for distribution among
Workmen's Clubs and Radical Associations. Might conciliate those
well meaning but illogical Eight Hour Men. Wonder if KEIRHARDIE would
like a copy. What more nicely calculated to cheer the scant leisure of
Labour? Funny to hear my own sinuous sentences coming back to me from mouth
of another. Not quite sure MAX is so "fascinating in his voice, and
so persuasive in his delivery" as but no matter. Can't say as MAX
did "I felt myself carried away, and convinced almost against my
will." Not at all! Wonder what he meant by that? Why "against his
will"? That's what Liberal Unionists, and other preposterous and
illogical opponents of mine say in House, when they compliment me on
my "eloquence," and then vote against me! Absurd! Wish they'd drop
their compliments and vote straight. "Small and exotic contribution" to Oriental Congress! Neat description
of paper running to nearly four columns of Times . "Intense sentiment
of nationality, which led the Greeks of later days to covet the title
of Autochthones." Wonder if that reminded MAX, or anyone else, of
another race with "an intense sentiment of nationality," and a
passionate love of the land from which they sprang. Wonder whether,
if Nationalists were to call themselves "Auctochthones" instead of
Home Rulers, we should get along better? Must consult JUSTIN on this
point. Should have to teach some of them to pronounce their new
name, though. "Autochthones," spoken in wrath, with a rich brogue,
after dinner, would, I should think, beat Phillippopolis, or "Ri'
l'il, ti' li'l Isl'l" hollow. Anax andron , too, might be useful. Say, as substitute for that
everlasting G.O.M., of which I admit I'm heartily sick, Lord of Men!
Not King of Men, of course. LABBY might kick at latter. "Nothing
can be simpler than the meaning of the two words." Exactly. Must get
HARCOURT to popularise these. Applied to AGAMEMNON. Why not to "strong
men" who live after AGAMEMNON? "Evidence from extraneous sources
of connection between title of Anax andron and great Egyptian
Empire." Aha! I may yet have to play the Anax andron in Egypt as
before. Allegory I mean Anax andron on banks of Nile! Good and
not a Malapropism, whatever WOLSELEY may say. "Title of Anax
andron descendible" (good word, "descendible") "from father to
son, and accorded in the poems to personages altogether secondary,
viz. , EUMELOS and EUPHETES." Wonder what my EUMELOS HERBERT will
say to that! Enjoyed it much whilst MAX was "mouthing out" (as Mrs. BROWNING
says) my eulogy of that man of "Phoenician stamp," the "universal
ODYSSEUS," who expressed the many sided, the all accomplished man;
the polutropos , the polumetis , the tlemon , the polutlas , the
polumekanos , the poikilometis , the poluphron , the daïphron ,
the talasiphron. (What a peck of p's!) In battle never foiled! In
council supreme! His oratory like the snow flakes of the winter
storm. Superbly representative Phoenician! "But over and above this
universality of ODYSSEUS in the arts of life, he bears the Phoenician
stamp in what may be termed his craft." Aha! The "Old Parliamentary
Hand" of his period plainly... Continue reading book >>
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