Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1885 — Peel and Thackery. [ARTICLE]

Peel and Thackery.

I must tell you an anecdote of Sir Bobby. If you read the list of people congregated to see his pictures, you ■will have seen there not only all the artists, drawing-masters, men of science, but reporters and writers for journals. Thackery, who furnishes the wit for Punch , told Milnes that the exminister came up to him and said, with the blandest smile: “Mr. Thackery, I am rejoiced to see you. I have read with delight every line you ever -wrote.” Thackery would have been better pleased if the compliment had not inoluded all his works; so, to turn the subject, he observed that it must be a great gratification to live surrounded bysuch interesting works of art Sir R. replied: “I can assure you that it tdoes not afford me the same satisfaction as finding myself in such society as yours!* This seeking popularity by fulsome praise wiß not suoceed.—Leiter of Lady Ashburton to J. W. Qroleer.