The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-06-05
Extract from the London Correspondence OF the n. T.
Eyani,,, Mirror NAV 1917

Extract from the London Correspondence Of the n y
Evening Mirror. MAY 3, 1917.
see the Roman correspondents OF some OF our leading
papers mention some American artists IN Rome In terms
OF high commentator Among others Mr.. Powers tie
sculptor whose fine statue of the Greek Slave was exhb
tied here. Also Mr. e. Brown, painter, OF whom one
Of our critics says Mr. Brown very justly considers tha
the works OF Shakespeare afford nexbaustbe held Tor
the painter One OF his pictures perhaps the best is the
moonlight from the Merchant Of Venice where Lo-
and Jessica introduced He has painted another
fine picture Jacques and the wounded Stag from AS
you like it, and he has rendered the antique oak whose
gnared root peeps OUT with singular beauty He is also
very feclious in the stream there is freshness about il
very rarely seen in other works"
On the e23d ultmo, being the anniversary of Shak
speares birthday, meeting of the Royal Shakspeaan
Club took place AT Straord- upon Avon The question
of the purchase OF the old house which Shakespeare
born was the principal subject before them This venerable
and toerng edice by the terms of the will of It's late pos
was 10 be sold al the death OF his wife That lady
expired in October November last and the ednce
to be disposed of by public competition within year
from the date of her DEATH the probability of the property
falling into INSCRIPTIONS hands was seriously entertain
ed In these circumstances, the committee deemed ad
ysabe to draw the attention OF the government to II and
communication transmitted to Lord Mopeth, sug
costing that as the club were unable TO purchase II,
property essentially national should be placed under the
protection OF the To this letter his lortshp
returned the following answer;
November % 1916
SRI am extremely Obliged to you for the communea-
part Shakspearian Club pecting the approaching
disposal OF the house in which The greatest OF poets
disposed 10 think that the acquisition Interesting
properly pertains sill more 10 the people Of England than to
have The honor to be- sir
Your very duiiul servant,
After this, several meetings were held relative 10 the
subject at the last OF which, consequence OF the pres
ent holders declining TO name price, and announcing
their determination to submit it TO public auction, II
deemed expedent to let the matter remain is al pres
ent The meeting was very unostenaious though attend
ed by many persons OF emnence IN the political and lite
rary world Wordsworth Talfourd, and w. s. Lander,
sent apologize notes not being able TO attend The pres
literary although it has brought the usual
amount of trash has also produced really valuable
books in the higher departments of history and biography
well novels by the first writers of the day There
does admirable Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Court of
France. The History of the Protestant Reformation in
France, by the author OF .The Two Old Mems Tales"
emily Windham," &c Miss Cosellos memoirs of the
celebrated Jaques CGur, and several others.
Fanny Kemble Butler is becoming quite lady of re-
nown Her refusal to act for ESQ nightthe name she
bearsthe ecdt she acquired in her early feand the cir
cumstances under which she the stageal
bne invest her with envabe notorety, which she has
taken the opporune momento increase by publishing her
book A Year OF Consolation" Why so called, the
reader neither informed has he any of guess
ing, if he did not disregard certain gossip current in the
atrcal circles as to marital dissensions that said to
have driven her to the stage again.
That it is the work OF clever observer and weread
woman there is ample evidence in almost every page
the extraordinary and totally unaccountabe literary fall
ures for which the year 1877 has been far remarkable
in the works of its greatest authors the Battle,
by Boz-the Lucreta' OF Bulwer-and the Tancred''
OF DIsraeli. >
The May number of Dombey will reach you with this
Each succeeding number OF this work confirms the public
opinion after the first two that this by far the best of
the authors works, and likely be deemed by those
who will hereafter estimate his merits, apart from the
temporary occurrences that at first lent him Fictitious
ecat Without any dlmnuton of the characteristic rac
of his early writings there greatly increased evil
dences of diversified observation and extended acquaint
with books nor is his style any longer open TO the
cha Icln nd tpi fms lima
ferred against it, Occasionally he mconsclously pro-
duces the picture of another of the perhaps
unavoidable results of study He is said to be devoted
votary of the poetry of Tennyson and in the opening of
the number spoken Of, his description of the lonely
house in which Florence resides is almost counterpart
OF the Moated Grange " the similarity diminished
by the frequent repetition OF this passage which
ponds TO the refrain of Tennysons verses, viz. - For
Florence lived alone in the great dreary house. and day
walls looked down on her with vacant stare as if they
had Gordon-like mind to her youth and beauty
into stone BSlw E has two new as ready for repre-
market They written for Nlacready and it is
pected they will shortly be produced.
Your distinguished countryman Mr.. Bancroit-present
ambassador al the court OF ST. James, is winning golden
opinions OF all kinds Of men. His merits as literary
and historian fully recognised here, and he has
been elected honorary member OF several learned societies
in the nation His lady attends the drawing OF her
Majesty, and several Americans by the court circu
lar, have lately been introduced.
You will see by your files that Sir Waller Scott son
of the author of Waverly, dead He was born in 1901,
and was lieutenant colonel in The 18th hussars He
was attacked by dysen,ey al the Cape of Good Hope.
while on his way home from Madras The body was
brought home in the Wellesley, and is on its way for
inernen in his fathers grave in Dryburgh Abbey. The
baronetcy is extinct but the Abbotsord property passes
to Walter Scott Lockhart, the 10th ancers
only Of the editor of the Quarterly and only grand
son of the author OF Waverly The property does
pass to him, Lady Scott by her marriage settle
ment has life interest in the estate II the great
1" Wizard Of the North" who taxed his genius to be-
come landed proprietor and establish line of heredi-
tary traders rents the end of his misguided and
sordd ambition, how truly may he excaim, transit
GLORIA mundi
re- The following gentlemen Will he supported
the lex elrcIon In tie Elrst Marl by