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his spurs in literature, still less to be an emeritus, and 

 worthy of the post he holds. And this is the man who 

 for years — that is to say till poor Deutsch's death — resisted 

 all efforts of the Trustees to get the learned author of the 

 famous Essay on the Talmud, an assistant keepership of 

 Oriental books ; and who, out of spite and in order to 

 break down what little pride he might have left, set him to 

 the low drudgery of copying the titles of Dutch books ! 



The mention of this incident brings me to another of 

 Mr. Jones' disqualifications. A man may be comparatively 

 incompetent, and yet succeed well by means of gentle- 

 manly behaviour and general courtesy. Gentlemanly feel- 

 ing cannot be produced by outside polish. The English 

 gentleman is a gentleman first of all in heart, and I know 

 of no recipe for manufacturing him. He must be born and 

 bred a gentleman, and such people are not, so far as my 

 experience goes, produced anywhere except in England 

 and in my own country. Perhaps because England and 

 Poland are the only two countries possessing an aristocracy 

 of true breeding whose members are not brought up to be 

 military despots, or to nourish the pride of ancient traditions 

 which they have not the wealth to sustain. Let us return to 

 Mr. Jones. Specimens of his behaviour have already been 

 given above. His treatment of Mr. Deutsch, and his 

 brutality to Mr. Warren, are sufficient instances of his lack 

 of culture. Lack of culture alone is not an unpardonable 

 defect if combined with civility. However, it shows a low 

 nature. It has been my lot to see Mr. Jones in both aspects. 

 When I first came to him, a friendless reader, to complain 

 of the conduct of Naake, I spoke to him in a tone calm 

 and confident— the tone that one gentleman should adopt 

 toward another when asking for justice. I was kept 

 standing near the door while he sat in his throne and 



