MR. CARNEGIE ON WEALTH.
[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." 1 SIR,—Your analysis in the Spectator of November 16th of the three troubles that afflict the poor is very just. I will add another, which greatly afflicts the educated poor, — the frequent necessity of serving under the truly uneducated and underbred. "This is servitude," says Abdiel to Satan in "Paradise Lost,"—" to serve the unwise." As a man earning about 2100 a year, I can speak from painful experience, and affirm that there is no greater misery than to obey an arro- gant, supercilious, illiberal, uncultured business man. I
cannot agree with you that the power to enjoy, Shakespeare or Wagner is in the slightest degree a remedy against the evils Df poverty ; my belief is that it adds poignancy to them ; like one who," as Mr. Watson sings,—
" dwelling in some smoke-dimmed town,—
In a brief pause of labour's sullen wheel,—
'Seeped from the street's dead dust and factory's frown,—
In stainless daylight saw the pure seas roll. Saw mountains pillaring the perfect sky ; Then journeyed borne, to carry in his soul The torment of the difference till he die."
A love of Shakespeare simply adds that "torment of the difference" to the troubles of the poor am, Sir, Szc.,
Q. Q.
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