FR I E N D S H I P ’S GA R L A N D BE I N G T H E T E C O N VE RSAT I O N S , LE T R S , AN D O P I N I O N S OF TH E L ATE A R M I N I U S BA RO N V O N T H UN D E R - T E N - T RO N C K H C OLL ECTED AN D ED I TED WI TH E A D EDI CATORY LETTER TO ADO L S CENS LEO , ESQ . ” OF ! TH E DAI LY TE L E G RAP H BY M A T T H E W A R N O L D ’ ' ' ' nzanzbus da te lz lza plem s POPULAR E D I T/ON L O N D O N WATE R L O O P LACE D E R co . 1 S M ITH , E L , , 5 1 903 [A ll r ig h t s re s e rv e d! C O NT E N TS . DED I CATO RY L ETTE R L E E I TT R . I introduce A rminiu s and Geist to fi l e Britis/z P ublic L ETTE R I I . A rminius appears as b is own L E E I I I TT R . 1 expostulate wit/z A rminius on ft is R evolu tionary LET E I V T R . ' A rminius assails tae Britts/z P ress f or its Free and I ndepen dent Comments on Foreign Politics L ETTE V R . communicate a Valuable E x osition o A rminius o tfie p , y , j System of Tenant -rzlgflz t in P russia o L ETTE R VI . ’ 1 become intrustea wit/z tko Views of A rminius on Compu lsory CONTENTS . VI I L ETTE R . M ore about Co mp ulsory E ducation V LETTE R I I I . r a P la ul S i nature m Friend L eo o the D ai Unde yf g , y , f ly ’ Tele ra /z advocates an im ortant L iberal M easure and g p , p , , so in i ves N ews o A rminius in do g , g f ETTE I ! L R . A rminius startin or. tb e Continent to take a t in tb e War , g f p r between France and P russia addresses a D isres ec ul , p tf Farewell to Our P eople and I nstitutions L E E ! TT R . A rminiu s writin rom tile German Cam be ore P aris c om , g f p f , ments in b is old Una reciative S irit on tb e A ttitu de , pp p , of Our Beloved Country in tb e Black S ea Question L ETTE ! R I . 1 take up t/ze Cudgelsfor Our Belov ed Cou ntry L E E ! I TT R I . ’ L i z a M r ‘ s . G. A . S ala sa s a D r m fi , y , ea I M Y CO UNTRYM E N A COURTEO US E ! PLA NAT I ON D E DI CATO RY L ETTE R . M Y R L EO Grub S treet Candlemas D a 1 1 DEA , , y, 87 . of . la S HALL I ever forget the evening, at the end st our of November, when y feeling letter describing the death o ur friend first met my eyes ? I was alone in my garret ; it was j ust dark my landlady opened the door and threw a paper on the table . S elfish creatures that we are my first thought was It is a communication from the Literary Fund ! Th e straits to which I am reduced by my long warfare with the Philistines , have at last, I said to myself, become known they have excited sympathy ; this is no - . O a doubt a letter from Mr ctavian Blewitt , enclosing half of crown , the promise my dinner at Christmas , and the kind wishes of Lord Stanhope for my better success in H saw P all authorship. astily I lighted my lamp , and the ll az ett Y L o h M a G e. ou e ow know, , , after vainly knocking of D ai Tele ra b a to N ~ at the door the ly g p , I c rried orth Y L . v iii DEDICA TOR ETTER umb erland Street my records of the conversations of of r Arminius . I love to think that the suc cess the Wo k ’ house Casual ’ had disposed the Editor s heart to be friendly towards Pariahs ; my communication was affably P all M all Gaz ette accepted, and from that day to this the , Ar whenever there is any mention in it of minius, reaches at me in Grub Street gr is. I took the paper, I opened it your playful signature caught my eye . I read your letter end and through to the , then ‘ d r r Su er me, Leo, to d aw a veil ove those first days of grief. In the tumult of feeling plans were then formed to f which I have not energy to give ef ec t . I nourished the design of laying before the public a com plete account of Ar n T - - Tronckh r mi ius von hunder ten , and of the. g oup The r of which was gathered round him . histo y his family has been written by the famous Voltaire in his Candide but I doubt whether an honest man can in conscience send the British public to even the histo rical works of that Y n r r dangerous author . et a si gular fo tune b ought together in our set the descendants o f a number of the personages andide - - h C . T T ronck suffi of Von hunder ten is, perhaps , c iently made known by the following letters his cu rious delusion about the living representative of Pangloss is also fully noticed there . But not a glimpse, alas , do these r o f our r r M ab ille ecords give poo friend Ma tin (de ) , who L DEDICA TOR Y E TTER. ix has just been shut up in Paris eating rats, the cynical ’ of r of th e descendant that g eat foe Pangloss s optimism , andide H Martin of C . ardly a glimpse is given of th e Pococurarrte Marquis Pompeo , little Pompey with the soft ou T ' eyes and dark hair, whose acquaintance y made at urin orti ues da P b under the p g , and whom you brought to of h . of London in the hope curing , y the spectacle the ' D ail Tele ra b indifi erence . Of y g p , his hereditary and ennui E our nglish friends , too, the public would , doubtless , be . h glad to hear more M r Bottles himself fills , in t e following letters, by no means that space to which his for importance entitles him the excellent Baptist m inister, R . s so ev . whom Mr Bottle has high a regard , the Josiah M ar ane L eo Jupp, appears far too unfrequently your y j , , is a nam e and nothing more hardly more than names are my good and kind patroness , the late lamented Mrs . H . Bottles , and her sister and successor, Miss annah It is th e a small matter, perhaps ; but I should have liked , too, public to know something of my faithful landlady here in G K o n rub Street, itty Crone, whom , after my vain conflict with the Philistines is ended , will probably devolve the of pious duty closing my eyes . had i aof A I imag ned a memori l rminius , in which all these would have found their place ; but my spirits broke All down in the attempt to execute my design . , therefore , DEDICA TOR Y LETTER . A that I have done is to collect the stray records of rminius which have already been published , to illustrate them with notes so far as appeared necessary, and to give myself the melancholy pleasure of dedicating to you , Leo , a collection which owes to your brilliant and facile pen some of its best ornaments . O ur friend had an odd way of showing it, but certainly D o Arminius had a love for this country . you remember, Leo a , th t conversation in the summer of last year, the last we spent together in his company ? It was in the arbour ‘ ’ - of the garden of the Bald Faced Stag at Finchley . We had all been to the gallery of the H ouse of Commons to hear Mr . Vernon H arcourt develop a system of unsectarian f P religion rom the Life of M r. ickwick ; but from some a or obst cle other the expected treat did not come Off. We r r r A adjou ned to Finchley, and the e, you emember, rminius n H e began with a discourse on religious educatio . exacted from me, as you know, the promise not, as he harshly ‘ ’ a r phr sed it, to make a hash of his ideas by eporting them to the public ; and the promises of friendship are . r r sacred But afte wa ds the conversation became general . ra and r It then took a wider nge I emember Mr . Frederic H rr a ison beginning to harangue, with his usual fiery n a n of En eloque ce, on the enerv tio gland, and on the malignancy of all the brute mass of us who are not D E DJCA TOR Y L E TTER.