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Caudle's Curtain Lectures" "The worst book anybody ever wrote" "Most magnificent eye I ever saw" A great deal of the feminine in Reade Fire, pathos, fun, and dramatic animation A philosophical library in itself Amusing appanage of his own book Oily and voluble sanctimoniousness Self-worship of the os-rotundus sort Inflamed rather than abated by years "Every word of it true; but " Better, or happier, because we had lived Appropriated somebody else's adventure Filtering remarks through the mind of a third person A delightful Irishman Unparalleled audacity An unregenerate opinion The whole line of Guelphs in it "Oh, that somebody would invent a new sin!"
Caudle; who, doubtless, trusted to the sweetness of her husband's disposition to make it agree with him. Philosophers have debated whether morning or night is most conducive to the strongest and clearest moral impressions. The Grecian sage confessed that his labours smelt of the lamp. In like manner did Mrs. Caudle's wisdom smell of the rushlight.
With that gentle receptivity which makes some natures the defenseless targets of advice, the inefficient little mother felt herself at times between the upper and the nether millstones of condensed milk and Caudle's food, but her weak, appealing face always brightened into tremulous delight when the rival factions united, as they invariably did, on the subject of the baby's undoubted precocity in the matter of "noticing."
The next entry in the book is on the subject of "Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures," and, like most of the others, it merits attention from the unexpected view she takes of the position. It does not strike her as being humourous, but pathetic.
Caudle, with meek persistency, goes out to amuse himself alone when his day's work is done. Mrs. Caudle's day's work never is done. She has the wearing charge of a large family, and the anxiety of making both ends meet on a paltry income, which entails much self denial and sordid parsimony, but is conscientiously done, if not cheerfully, nevertheless. It is Mr.
Caudle's Curtain Lectures came out, and from 1852 he ed. Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. Among his novels are St. Giles and St. James, and The Story of a Feather. J. had a great reputation as a wit, was a genial and kindly man, and a favourite with his fellow littérateurs, who raised a fund of £2000 for his family on his death. Historical writer, ed. at Eton, was a clerk in the Admiralty.
On the following day, the 27th, the two remaining gunboats and transport attempted to pass Caudle's position; and the former, much cut up, succeeded, but the transport was captured.
And of course they only laugh at you. 'Caudle's an easy fool, they cry I know it as well as if I heard 'em 'Caudle's an easy fool; anybody may lead him. Yes anybody but his own wife; and she of course is nobody. "And now, everybody that's arrested will of course send to you. Yes, Mr. Caudle, you'll have your hands full now, no doubt of it.
Caudle appeared to be a somewhat foolish lady. "But what had Caudle ever done to improve Mrs. Caudle's mind?" Had he ever sought, with intelligent illuminating conversation, to direct her thoughts towards other topics than lent umbrellas and red-headed minxes? It is my complaint against so many of our teachers. They scold us for what we do, but so rarely tell us what we ought to do.
He wrote some two-score plays, and was a contributor to Punch from its outset; there are several books to his credit; and he edited Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, which was first called by his own name. But people who have read or heard of nothing else of his, have heard of or read "Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures."
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