Tae editor of a popular American {journal has recently added x now horror to domestic life. He has hit celebrities" from their respective partners, thus securing the wife's opinion of the husband, and the husband's idea of the wife. It would be interesting to note the effect of these interviews when published, upon the subject whose idiosyncrasies they profess to portray. Unless the married couples were in such perfect accord that they agreed beforehand to set down naught in malice, the opportunity afforded to each for the payment of old scores would be absolutely unlimited. We all know what.a sorry, pitiful figure the Sage of Chelsea appeared under the distorted scratches of his wife's caricaturing pen. Mrs. Carlyle must have had the soul of a valet in that she failed to recognise the hero in the genius whose groutness she dwarfed to the level of a pretty personality. But as her excuse it must be pleaded that the inevitable proximity of wurried life is apt to have a diminishing effect on the perspective of worship and admiration. It is dificult always to recognise the great man in the morbid creature whose temper is so trying ut breakfast; and the clever authoress who makes such a charming figure in society may be an unknown quantity to her husband who knows her best as.a victim to sick headaches and nervous depression, In Gyp's brilliant little sketch," Ax Balade, Xantippe is made to appear as a fascinating woman of the world, much sought after by all the haute gomme of modern Paris, 'I's one of her admirers she remarks _plaintively: "On est tenne que jo ne sois pas vilaine! Grace & mon mari, jo passe pour une creature laid et désagréable en tous points!" Doubtless if Xantippe's private opinions of her husband could have been obtained centum ries ago by a Greek interviewer, Socrates would not have seemed such an admirable figure as he appears to us now. We have never believed in the possibility of Xautippe really being as black as she is painted; and are much more inclined to think with
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