A Bostonian Anecdote of Thack eray.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 135, 2 January 1886, Page 4

A Bostonian Anecdote of Thack eray.

The' historian of the Boston "Evening Record" lately gathered this intensely Boston anecdote of Thackeray, said to have been concealed for many years from the newspapers : Thackeray, though he satirised snobbery with a pen of fire, appreciated the advantages of high rank and all that it implies, and he did not hesitate to write that even the heart of a stern moralist would throb with pleasure if he could be ' seen walking down Pall Mall arm-in-arm between two dukea. While standing i n the window of the fashionable Somerset Club in Boston, looking out upon the p&sserabv Thackeray said to a friend: "I haven't seen in, this country any men with* J the stamp of high social caste— such men' aa combine brains and blood in the British peerage. Have you no such men in America?" The Boston club man replied that we had, and was going on to illustrate the subject, when Thackeray's quick eye caught sight of two dignified and courtly, looking gentlemen walking arm-in-arm on the opposite side walk. " There," he said. "are-,the sort of men I mean. They look as ii they were born dukes ?" The great? writer, had seen two of the most democratic of Bostonians, both of whom, howtver, had more brains and dignity than most wearers of coronets, s They were Edmund Qiiinov and Wendell Phillips. . , s *

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