Around the tea-table . dy with him, and his pen and hisinkstand in the top of his cane, so let him carrythem. If Lamartine can best compose while walk-ing his park, paper and pencil in hand, so let himramble. If Robert Hale thinks easiest when lyingflat on his back, let him be prostrate. If Lamasiuswrites best surrounded by children, let loose onhim the whole nursery. Dont criticise CharlesDickens because he threw all his study windowswide open and the shades up. It may fade thecarpet, but it will pour sunshine into the hearts of SHELVES A MANS INDEX. 237 a million readers. If Thomas Carlyle c
Around the tea-table . dy with him, and his pen and hisinkstand in the top of his cane, so let him carrythem. If Lamartine can best compose while walk-ing his park, paper and pencil in hand, so let himramble. If Robert Hale thinks easiest when lyingflat on his back, let him be prostrate. If Lamasiuswrites best surrounded by children, let loose onhim the whole nursery. Dont criticise CharlesDickens because he threw all his study windowswide open and the shades up. It may fade thecarpet, but it will pour sunshine into the hearts of SHELVES A MANS INDEX. 237 a million readers. If Thomas Carlyle chose tocall around an ink-spattered table Goethe, andSchiller, and Jean Paul Frederick Richter, and dis-sect the shams of the world with a plain goose-quill, so be it. The horns of an oxs head are notmore certainly a part of the ox than Thomas Car-lyles study and all its appointments are a part ofThomas Carlyle. The gazelle will have soft fur, and the lion ashaggy hide, and the sanctum sanctorum is thestudents CHAPTER XXXVIII. BE HA VI OR A T CHURCH AROUND the door of country meeting-housesit has always been the custom for the peopleto gather before church and after church for so-cial intercourse and the shaking of hands. Per-haps because we, ourselves, were born in thecountry and have never got over it, the custompleases us. In the cities we arrive the last mo-ment before service and go away the first momentafter. We act as though the church were a rail-car,into which we go when the time for starting arrives,and we get out again as soon as the Depot ofthe Doxology is reached. We protest against thisbusiness wray of doing things. Shake hands whenthe benediction is pronounced with those who satbefore and those who sat behind you. Meet thepeople in the aisle, and give them Christian salu-tation. Postponement of the dining-hour for fif-teen minutes will damage neither you nor the din-ner. That is the moment to say a comfortingword to the man or woman in trouble. The ser-
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