Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1917 — Original Anyhow. [ARTICLE]

Original Anyhow.

Macaulay said of Horace Walpole: “His mind was a bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations; his features were covered by masks within masks. When the outer disguise of obvious affectation was removed you were still as far as ever from seeing the real man.” Thackeray observed of the letters: “Fiddles sing all through them; wax lights, fine dresses, jfine jokes, fine plate, finer equipages glitter and sparkle there.* But there is muclf In the great correspondent of Strawberry Hill besides whim and gimcrackery, as a few sentences chosen almost at random from his letters will show. His views are distinctly his own.