Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — It Tickled Boston. [ARTICLE]

It Tickled Boston.

In one of Lowell’s letters to Briggs, the former mentions Thackeray’s visit to Boston, and says that during the meeting of Thackeray with Ticknor, the latter said: “One mark of a gentleman is to be well-looking—for good blood shows itself In good features.” “A pretty speech,” replied Thackeray, “for one broken-nosed man to make to another,” and in the letter Lowell added: “All Boston has tjeen secretly tickled about it” A man la hopelessly dull when he doesn’t know when he is being made fun of.