Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — Kinglake. [ARTICLE]

Kinglake.

Kinglake, the author of “Eotheu,” was afflicted with gout, and he had a fancy to try a lady doctor, and wrote to one to ask if gout was beyond her scope. She replied: “Dear sir, gout is not beyond my scope, but men are.” It was Kinglake who uttered one of the neatest of mots on the peculiar character of the Times. lie had little fondness for that journal, in spite of personal friendships whieli might have been expected to soften bis view of the question. The paper was still to him a sort of juggernaut, irresistible and fateful. On seeing an announcement of the new editor’s marriage, he exclaimed: “Heavens! that brings the Times into relations with humanity.”