. The works of William Makepeace Thackeray . early training or from naturalbent made more often for right than for wrong. Some chapters of the wonderful histories of Nelson and his ship-mates, lately published, read at times like a i)age out of DenisDuval. Take Colonel Drinkwaters story as it is quoted in Mahans Charles Dickens wrote, In respect of earnest feeling, far-seeinj^ purpose,character, incident, and a certain loving picturesqueness blending tho whole,I believe it to be much the best of all his works. INTRODUCTION XXXI book—Colonel Drinkwator, wlio met Nelson sliortly l)efoie thebattl
. The works of William Makepeace Thackeray . early training or from naturalbent made more often for right than for wrong. Some chapters of the wonderful histories of Nelson and his ship-mates, lately published, read at times like a i)age out of DenisDuval. Take Colonel Drinkwaters story as it is quoted in Mahans Charles Dickens wrote, In respect of earnest feeling, far-seeinj^ purpose,character, incident, and a certain loving picturesqueness blending tho whole,I believe it to be much the best of all his works. INTRODUCTION XXXI book—Colonel Drinkwator, wlio met Nelson sliortly l)efoie thebattle of Caniperdown, wliicli was fought on the 11th of October 1797,when Nelson was not yet quite recovered from his terrible woun<l. One of the first questions Mr. Nelson put to me was whetherI had been at the Admiralty I told him there was a rumour thatthe British fleet had been engaged with that of Holland. Hestarted up in his peculiar energetic manner, notwithstanding LadyNelsons attempt to quiet him, and stretching out his unwounded. THREE SEAMEN. arm, Drink water, said he, I would give this other arm to bewith Duncan at this moment. So unconquerable was the spirit ofthe man, and so intense his eagerness to give every instant of hislife to the service. Something of the spirit of this absorption in lifes work, ratherthan in lifes continuance, seems in some measure to animate allmaster spirits and great men, whether warriors, or teachers, oradministrators, or artists. Each one seems to be the servant ofsome higher unknown rule; to be in part the expression of that xxxii ROUNDABOUT PAPERS, DENIS DUVAL, ETC. which is beyond all speech. My fiither was not alone among hiscompanions to live and teach and work in obedience to a lawwhich is stronger for great men than for smaller ones. Lesser men in turn are not slow to do justice to those theytrust, and whose mission they recognise. Only a few days before his death my father came home oneafternoon saying that he could not get ac
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