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England; he traced to their influence, unconsciously accepted
though it may often be, much that is characteristically and happily
English. For old institutions, thronged with memories, rich in
history, for the very voices of their weathered walls, he had a
feeling like that of Burke; and for "utilitarian" or " scientific "
theories of education he felt an almost vehement dislike, so
mechanical and impoverishing to the spirit did he think them. There
could hardly have been a greater loss to contemporary literature
just at the present time; the champion of no school, he was almost
alone among the writers of English prose in simply maintaining an
ideal of high severity and excellence. His rare work, given to the
world from time to time, quietly reminded a new generation of
certain palmary and indispensable virtues, not easy of attainment,
which are in danger of becoming old-fashioned or forgotten.
Emphatically the scholar and man of letters, there was in his life
and work a perfect expression of that single-hearted devotion to
fine literature, yet without a shadow of pedantry, which is ceasing
to flourish in the ancient academic places. There is yet deeper
sorrow, upon which I cannot touch, save to say that to younger men
concerned with any of the arts, he was the most generous and
gracious of helpful friends. In due time, they will be able to
think, with nothing but a reverent affection, of the admired writer
at last laid to rest under the towers and trees of his own Oxford.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND HER CHAMPION The Daily Chronicle, June 23,
1900; The Academy, Aug. 4, 1900.] ..." What a story is that of that
family of poets in their solitude yonder on the gloomy northern
moors " cried Thackeray. To quote Mr. Swinburne, it is to " the
sweetand noble genius of Mrs. Gaskell" th...
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