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    ¦ 1 Dec . 6 , 1889 The Publishers' Circular 1 643

    Professor Elmslie. The Sudden Death Of P...

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    the +. lm scop scone e and and driit drift or of modern modern U German -erman theological theological literatu literature re , , and and , . had had so so valuable valuable a a life lire been been spared longer , much might have been expected from Dr . Elmslie in the realm of Church s history and theology . ' . '

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    Huddersfield , on November 15 , in his 75 th year . He was the son of ~ Mrr ~ W . Lealharrr ; banker , of Heath , near Wakefield ; and his sister Margaret Elizabeth was the second wife of Mr . John Bright . Mr . Leatham was the author of ' Tales of English Life and Miscellanies '

    and several poems . '

    Martin Fabquhar Tupper, D.C.L. ! ¦¦ B ¦ ...

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    has been broken . Martin Farquhar Tupper was born in London in July 1810 . His father was a well-known medical man , of whom it is related that he twice refused to accept a baronetcy . The familwas of German extractionbut settled in Guernsey in the sixteenth

    € / y , century . Martin ^ Tupper was educated at the Charterhouse , and when he was one of the older boys Thackeray was in the lower forms of the school . He afterwards pursued his

    education at Christ Church , Oxford , where he took a good degree and won distinction in other ways . Whilst at Christ Church he vanquished no less a personage than Mr . Gladstone , in a

    struggle for the Burton Essay Prize . When Mr . Tupper went up to receive the twenty-five pounds' worth of booksof which the - ^ - -m- prize jbs consistedhe used to recall with a smile that he

    w ' ' ~ ^*— ^ ^* ^ rir-v f *^ v v ^ hi ^ . ^ ^^ ^^ i . ^*^^ ^^ n i ^ ^ b ^ ^ , * r ^ j ^ bpb ^ p , h ^^^ ^^ v v . A ^ b ^ fe ^ b ^ r ^ k jb ^ j ^^^ k ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ b ^ ^^^ ^ b «^ ^ r rn r ^^ ~ bj _ f s _ i ^ , « ^^ ^^ - \ i ~ ^»^ i >_ r ^ b ^ ^^^ ^ r ^^ r ^^ ^*^ ^^^ ^ tj ^ ¦ ^^ v ^ b ^* <¦« *^* ^ b ^ w — - ^ ^» ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^ v ^» *^ » ^^ ^ - ~ — - ^^^ was asked to ' allow Mr . Gladstone to have five pounds' worth of them as he was so good a " seco h * ^^ ^ - " — ' nd ^ ^ fe ^^^ in . V ' At t ^ m ^ ^ b * one ^ u ^ ^ K ^ ^^ r time ^^ ^ b ^^^ k J ^ ^^^ Mr o ^ b *? ^^ k »^ b . Tupper «^ ^ i ^ K ^^ B ^^ ^^^ ^^ thoug ^^ ^ ^ k ^^ i ^ ^ ^ ^^^ ht ^ bi ^ ^^ of ^^^ ^ b entering ^^ r ^ k ^^ ^ # ^ m ^^ ^ k ^ k ^ b ^^^ b . the ^* ** ^^ ^ " ^ Church ~ b \~ ^ b ^ b ^^^ « . ^ ^ mar ^^^^ , M but v ^ b ^ ^^^ b , ^ b < ^ an bi *^ # ^ k ^ h infirmit ^ K » ^ k ^^ i ^ k n . iT ^» ^ h «> ^^ ^^ y ¥ of ^^^ *^ speech v *^ ^^^ ^^ ^~^ ^~^ ^ ,

    ^\ liich later life disappeared , led him to relinquish that 'intention . His first appearance in - literature r ^ " ^^ «^ «_*« # «^ ^^ ^ ^ ib ^^^ was V ^ a ¦ # ¦ I ^ ^ as Vfbf ^ far bi 4- *^^ ^ b ^ back WK ^ F ^ i ^^ ^^^ ^ L . ^^ V as - ' ^^ | - | f the ^ Hf ^ b ^ b ^ b ^ year V ^ , |* ^ , 1 j » , . 1832 ^ Kw ^^^^ ^_^^ ^ p ^ , K when ^ V ^^ ^ ^^^ ^ b rfh ^ he ^ ^^ ^^^ published H *^ ^^^ fr |~ fc , ~ ^ b ^ b- r ^^^^^^ ^ b ^ «« H'Vto anonymousl ^ LS ^ ^» ^» " ^ . ^ ^^^ V V ^ m ^^^ m - * ^ - ^ r- — \ ¦ ^ y a — ' —

    volume of poems . Six years later his famous book , ' Proverbial Philosophy , ' was hook given leaped to the at world once , into and popul in sp arity ite of , both unfavour in Eng able of lan notices d and in America the critical . U p journals to the year the 1803 lr >(> 3 more morfi than than five fivft hundred hnndr ^ fl thousand t . hrmRjm copies monies of the the work work were ¥ fir « sold sold in the the United United

    States alone ; whilst its success in England was also quite phenomenal . Nothing that Mr . Tupper afterwards published during a long and active literary career arrested hook much which public he attention wrote as ; indeed a young , his man fame of , ei such ght-and as - it twenty is , hinges . Ballads almost , odes entirel , novels y on , and the

    plays Itlnva flowed flr » wf > rl from frrim his Tiist pen r * p » n , but Vm +. the fli p public rmTVHn cared narftH little lif . flft for for * them f . Vifim , thoug t . honcrTi h it i +, held TiftlH for for at at l least aastt a generation to ifcs first impression , that Martin Tupper was a great and original poet , and that flowed ' Proverbial in an opposite Philosoph direction y' was , an and epoch the -making genial , gracious book . old Since man then , who , however died at , the Norwood tide has on - ThursdayNovember 29 outlived to a large extent his literary reputation . In his

    autoholography , , which was published , a year or so ago by Messrs . Sampson Low & Co ., Mr . Tupper stated that from first to last his receipts from ' Proverbial VK Philosop _ H- 4 h' amounted in all to

    I tlio ' - - » « v w respectable v ^ . UAALV \ J U . JL . \ -J M . M . M . sum JUL A . KJ \ J of *^ _ ^ £ XCVkJ 10 , 000 . 1 lltj . V- / Personall V- » \* t ¦* - i- ' » JKJ X . A . \_ y AJLA Mr -M . V- ^ Tupper T V / Jk Fvr ^ . «^ .. was AAA . ^_» - » a J x _^ »_ kindl ^ ^ , * . y w ww y B . AA . man -v ^» «^« . ** v , ^^ full ^^ b , ¦« . a a . of «^ v ^ old . ^ . v -v - fashioned ¦• ----. * . v ^ - a A V ^> - » . courtesy V- * V ^ VA J . * J UU V , k beneat U ^ JJLli N _/« JV VAi h | which TT 11 l , \; l there V JL A . V > -L V- / ran 1 OVU a «> V simp MJL 1 . 1 . * |«^ JUV le ^ but Vb . / 1 V- * . V genuine b ^ ^^^ . * ¦ V « ^ .. K « . ^^ ^ reli % / A . i- g UbA ious ^ - ^ «^ »^ ^ life . ^ . a . - * r - . m If -m . ~ . ^ he . a *^

    w .-is not a great thinker , he was at least a good man , and one who for many years in high circle legions of of readers aspiration . He and has endeavour gone to his was grave guide in , phil an osop honourable her , and old friend age , to with an unusuall the proud y wide

    consciousness that he has not written anything base .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/109/