. Thackerayana;. xplanation arrived from Thackeraythat the allusion was not to Catherine Hayes, the famous Irish singer, but toCatherine Hayes, the murderess of the last century. THACKERAYS ADMIRERS IN SCOTLAND. 181 course of lectures at the great Music Hall was less happy. InEdinburgh his reception was always in the highest degree suc-cessful. He was more extensively known and admired among theintellectual portion of the people of Scotland than any livingwriter, not excepting Thomas Carlyle. There was somethingin his peculiar genius that commended him to the Northern tem-perament. Thackeray d
. Thackerayana;. xplanation arrived from Thackeraythat the allusion was not to Catherine Hayes, the famous Irish singer, but toCatherine Hayes, the murderess of the last century. THACKERAYS ADMIRERS IN SCOTLAND. 181 course of lectures at the great Music Hall was less happy. InEdinburgh his reception was always in the highest degree suc-cessful. He was more extensively known and admired among theintellectual portion of the people of Scotland than any livingwriter, not excepting Thomas Carlyle. There was somethingin his peculiar genius that commended him to the Northern tem-perament. Thackeray delivered his essays on the Four Georgesin Scotland to larger and more intellectual audiences than haveprobably nocked to any other lecturer, and he later on lecturedthere for the benefit of Angus B. Reachs widow. Nearly all themen of Edinburgh, with any tincture of literature, had met himpersonally, and a few knew him well. He was almost the onlygreat author that the majority of the lovers of literature in it had. Champions of order seen and heard, and his form and figure and voice, with its tragictones and pauses, well entitled him to take his place in any idealrank of giants. He was much gratified (says James Hannay) bythe success of the Four Georges (a series which superseded anearlier scheme for as many discourses on Men of the World)in Scotland. I have had three per cent, of the whole populationhere, he wrote from Edinburgh in November 1856. If I couldbut get three per cent, out of London ! Most of Thackerays readers will remember that in 1857he was invited by some friends to offer himself as a candidate forthe representation in Parliament of the city of Oxford. A characteristic anecdote was told in the newspapers relatingto the Oxford election by one who was staying with Thack-eray at his hotel during his contest with Mr. Cardwell. Whilst 182 THACKERA YANA. looking out of window a crowd passed along the street, hootingand handling rather roughly some of his opponents supp
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