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CHARLES LAMB CENTENARY.
MR. A. BIRRELL'S TRIBUTE TO
FAMOUS ESSAYIST..
understand what people meant when they used this word "alender," Gibbon was undoubtedly a stout man, yet no one spoke of Gibbon's valuable but stout works (Laughter.) The word "slender" A dinner was held recently 'in the Hall was an innuendo that the work was un of the Inner Temple at which a large important. It was's word which should company gathered to do honour to the be banished from comparative criticism. memory of Charles Lamb. Lamb, who (Laughter.) was born at 9, Crown Office-row, stopped, at Crabb Robinson's chambers in the Temple on March 39th, 1925, to slip into the letter-bas the nata with the words, "I have left the d-d India House for ever. Give me joy."
*IMPORTANT LITERATURE,,
He did not understand the word "in- portant as applied to literature at all. He did not see exactly what people meant when they said Gibbon was in- The chair at the dinner was taken by portant and Charles Lamb was not. What Mr. Augustine Birrell, E.C., and he pro- about Charles Lamb's specimens from the posed the toast of "The Immortal Mes dramatists about the time of Shake- mory of Charles Lamb." He had been speare ! That was an important book told, he said that he owed bis position to this day. How many books held as that night to the fact that he was a important from the hour of their birth Bencher of the Inner Temple. If that were now to be found paving the ground were so, be could only say that the com- of the pit of oblivion, while how many pliment was a double one, for which of casual contributions, it might be to them would not wish to be able, even magazines, might be found, a hundred for one evening, to join that ghostly years after their appearance shining band of gouty old gentlemen who still under the canopy of heaven with
own? Without on dark nights paced up and down the effulgency all their pavement just outside that hall in their speaking disrespectfully of "historians, imaginations and in the enchanted pages philosophers, and poets-let them all of the Essays of Elia 1. Who would take their place according to their merits not wish to join that small transfigured what was of real importance of Charles band, so celebrated and so famous? He Lamb? It was, he thought, that, during was glad to see present a number of the publication of the works, and ever intelligent ladies, who had always been since that time, they had instilled in the among the truest lovers of Lamb. It minds of young and impressionable was in fact one of the tests of an intel-readers all over the English-speaking ligent lady whether she was that or world-he would not say the principles, for he was pace à politician, and be still
not.
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His task in proposing the toast, he con. fought shy of that word-but the very tinued, might be considered an easy one, veins and sinews of literature, beauty. but really it was very difficult. They taste, exquisitely reared feeling, and were all lovers of Charles Lamb. That delightful humour. It might be asserted was why they were met together, and it without exaggeration that no young man did not make his task easy. Supposing or young woman anywhere, who had ever A hundred lovers were to meet for the really learnt to enter into the beauty purpose of extolling the varied charme and the spirit of Charles Lamb could of the common object of their affection, ever be altogether vulgar or entirely How would they after a time have re- dull, and vulgarity and dullness were the garded one another! Their meeting two chief enemies of the English race. would end in tumult and disorder. He (Laughter.) He remembered some 45 only prayed that their meeting might not years ago standing by the bedside of one end in the same way.
to whom he was bound by every natural It was not an easy task to praise tie, who was fast approaching his last people-he would not say immoderately, day on earth, through much pain, and but adequately and completely to satisfy who said to him as he came to his side: all the different lovers of the same per Do you know what I have been think. son. Invective was much easier and ing about all the morning, so far as I much more in his line. (Laughter? To could think about anything -Charles abuse a man roundly was much easier Lamb's essay on Captain Jackson." And than to praise him wisely. The vein of as he uttered the name, his features- invective, however, was closed against, very soon to be committed to the grave him that night. He could not, and did,-wrapped themselves into something Was it not ant wish to, indulge it, but the language very like a broad smile. of praise was usually futile, feeble, and, sheer nonsense to apply the words “un- or "gleader to writings even silly. It was particularly difficult important
for him to speak in gentle praise of like those which could so enter into the Charles Lamb without running the risk fibre of a man's being that the memory of saying something that might be of them after perhaps long periods of offensive to some others of his lovers, forgetfulness could bring pleasure, and How often in the last 5 years had he even joy, into some of the grimmest It been driven almost mad by hearing hours of our common mortality 2 some fatuous person, but nevertheless seemed to him that to speak of Charles a true lover, speaking of Charles Lamb Lamb otherwise than as a most import as the gentle Elia. It angered him be- ant writer was blasphemy against the yond description.
very spirit of literature. (Cheers.) He asked them to drink in silence-act necessarily solemn silence to the long enduring memory of Charles Lumb.
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Mr. G. K Chesterton' responded." THE INDIA HOUSE.
A STRONG MAN. The Charles Lamb by loved was a strong man, one of the strongest and perhaps the Mr. Cecil Hartsworth proposed the strongest man of the whole ctrcle of his toast of "The English Essay." He Baid acquaintance. The quality of gentleness he rejoiced that our magnificent tradi- lay, like that of mercy, at the very base tion in essay writing was so worthily perhaps of noble character, but as used being continued at the present time. He in connection with Lamb it seemed to found in the daily and weekly Press every create in his mind a notion, he would week essays still worthy of being collect not say of weakness, but perhaps of ex ed and published in permanent form, and cessive amiability, Now amiability was in this respect he called attention to not a quality anyone fell in love with. some of the fourth articles in The Times All our great novelist-Dickens, Thac every morning and to the essayist who keray, Fielding-had wrecked themselves for many years had contributed to the on this rock. We shrank from their Evening News. Amelias. (Laughter.) Therefore it was irritating to hear Charles Lamb spoken of as the gentle Elia. Lamb was a strong man, in spite of that hereditary taint of insanity which made such noble. havoc of his life. He was strong, he was Lord Wintertop, who replied, asked wise, and he was prudent; be was self-f whether the directorate of the India denying, self-sacrificing and generous; so House treated Lamb so badly. It was: generous and so self-denying that he was true that they worked him very hard at able out of his slender means to afford times, but it was an age when people who constant assistance to friends who, it had to earn their living were made to they had one-twentieth of his strength, work very hard. As an employee Lamb would never have stood in need of his was rather difficult. The Times that alms. Why call such a man gentle ? He day had an interesting article about need not enlarge on "Lamb's character, Charles Lamb, in which an incident was for they all knew it. Charles Lamb had recalled of his attitude towards his em one frailty, They were told that fre- ployers. It was not the sort of,attitude quently-yes, certainly frequently be which would get him early promotion. overstepped the limits. of becoming He was surprised that Lamb did not see sobriety. He sometimes get drunk. more of the romantic side of India
Mr JC Squire gave the tons of The D India House."
There were people who, on the strength House, which symbolized the wedding of of this solitary, weakness of this strong Great Britain and India, a marriage man, had the impertinence to speak of which he trusted would not be dissolved him compassionately-regretfully. He in our time or in that of our children. could no more compassionate Charles Lamb While they paid that night their tribute than he could claim to be his equal, and to the genius of a great Englishman he as for regret, he did not mind saying would say that India House represented that he felt none. Frailties we must no mean or contemptible thing in the have. Charles Lamb had one, and he history of our race. It stood for adven- was prepared to thark Heaven for it, ture, energy, and enterprise in commerce for otherwise he thought he would have of which any people might be proud. found him, if he might be allowed to mis So long as the same spirit inspired ve quote Wordsworth-
"A creature all too bright and good For human nature's daily food.": (Laughter.)
SLENDER AND STOUT
to-day as inspired those funny old direc tors who frightened Lamb when he went to see them, he did not think there would be much wrong with the country or, the
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What about the pleasure Charles, Lamb | British Empire. had given us? There was the delightful letter-one of the most delightful in our literature--which he wrote to the Rev. H. F. Cary apologizing for what had happened on the previous evening in the rooms of his clerical, host. In that letter The apologized for having got intoxicated.
There was no letter in literature which The Daily Mail, commenting a He he read more frequently and with greater fact that the receipts of the London delight and more profit. (Laughter.) County Council's tramways fell £500,000 in 1924, causing a deficit of £100,000, states
Britain, that everywhere in How often had be heard excellent trams are suffering from competition by people refer to Charles Lamb'sex motor buses, except where the municipal quisite yet slender works." What in the authorities. are able to exclude the buses name of Heaven did they mean by the from the streets, and says: "The cum word "slender" in that connection? In bersome, out of date and dangerous the physical world slender" was the tramways have became a serious financial antithesis of stout. No doubt physically problem, and are the cause of constant Charles Lamb was a slender man-s congestion of traffic. If they do not frail man. He somewhere spoke of his pay in London, it is hard to see where legs as immaterial, though they carried they can he worked at a profit. Their him many a mile from one foaming tan deficiencies are so obvious that the ten- kard to another. What better use could dency is to abandon them in favour of legs be put to except to carry a man on 'buses. Oxford and Cambridge have al charitable errands, and Charles Lamb's ready abolished trams and Darlington, legs, carried him on many charitable.Doncaster and Ipswich are, clearing out errands to many a friend, who was only theirs, and substituting motor buses, too glad to see him enter his house with which draw current by a trolley from assistance in his hands. He did not overhead wires."
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