The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-07-09
From the Boston Transcript
LONDON LITERARY LIONS.


place, secluded somewhat from the roar
and tumult Of the great city, still lives
the venerable poet Of the pleasure Of
! Memory whose great age, NINETY wears
! having rolled over his bald ripe fore
head,) dis1ualies him from taking his
long accustomed walks about the me-
tropohs. Mr.. Rogers sat in WcStmin-
Stcr Hall when Burke and Sheridan were
pouring oUt their invectives against
v agren Hastings, and all London was
ringing with the applause which the
eloquent Br!nsley elected on that occa-
sion. He is therefore part and parcel Of
bye-gone days, and very good authority
on w"at happened during the last sixty
years.
in a fine large house in Tavistock
place, TayiS;ocN square, sits Charles
Dickens. busy as "a bee over Bleak
House and Ilousehold Words" On an
afternoon IoIterer in that vicinity may
catch "A glimpse OF his thin hair, now
, sNinLei with gray, as it is tossed b.
/ the Summer wind which visits his desk
as he sits writing in his ample library
ron"a 70 ,,a,+ h., "''., 4 o' ol1,"
cnt If Iando, G." cn. Az ,a, U-' ,, ";''',
Brighton Or Bath.
Ihackeray has, ere this, got home
again, and any fine day, between u
Carr;cr, CInh KIM st,,at ron'a,t ~ CIV -.
dan nnnr;n,, aror7, HranoL n,,,."ao NV"
or chatting with iI,nrt ,Sn,,th dra.
mutton rho, and ,horr,, , aII;I;,n Wv IL
Is NOT an Unusual tb;nr 10 faL him ~
.on. end Of moor CharIas E.,nLIa,s oar.
trnmnnt or rjy n ,,jv' with Rnc'..,o,a the
'c,m4dian d;srnss;nr oId .rtors amd
.t.r9nct y ,rr, Tam.
Borrv C,.nu..II l;,,os;,, I,rIor s4roo4
Cayindlsb son,rn u,ara he - snanai,,,r
the hanpv 4y.ninr If his III. haInvaI
BY ali VIII, ar. }ortnnatn nno,rb r.
Know onn Of tba ,ooSt c-,or;,ns soma,
writer's in til. H,ng,isb ,on9ur
Waiter &avara J.a,lori !, IT hona IN
Bath havIny bean aynalIsl to,n Frarca
on account n bis .l,nrarons liharlv dor.
fyjYrS, 3t rarA ;n,.r,.,I, ha .,,o,s' ~, -
Ton1,,. and Than his Lo.,, IF r,;n,L,
1,cl, around him and r,ara b;s f,, IN
face radiant with s,n,Ins at tbn nrotns-
b0s9jta,I.v ,,,,,..l ,rannI hin,
n fine v,l},na If T,,y;cl..nh,r, !, .
modest brirl, hop,, ~, H.. road sid,
,,,,..,.. ,Ir.',i ,p'.,,'..' -
rrat4 Of Fn,,iand u H. n ',,f n ln
meets him oncn ar tw;cs war a. he
e,cbew> London and Ioyss ry;vacv A.
Won walk hv,Lss;Ia of,, ,,h,rno, ~ a
Sunday ev]n,nr At tba s,l, ~ ho"rs
sometimes ,ha wb;ts b"t of AIfr.J the
bard Of J,ocLl.v Ho,i, - r;,;his Wv
ma Rro",a;,y}.. i'"a'' ,:,.' '''n ,..Io.
a,tIng from cI'a "a a. nr LIN" w., InmI,n
is often in tbe;r WOW anJ tbar ms, he
mat with not r',,..i ;, 49,, n,
,;onol Calan,. - T'.aiIIs"a's ~ Wv
tbn o,or, Rnr 'I;sIItG'I - 49,
Cou,,ar h,t tb;a '" ,.,'" Al
onisita en;oyr,a,,,IP r, "~n AIN
# ona sGonId ,S ~ !, , '"'' ,,u, % ON,
gIinnsa of that ;liny,,n; s 'rto'oa. 7Tar
yp tho ,.rsa, y,,,n, r""a "o' raoa",
Europe, he would find it a difficult mat
ter Thomas likes 10 be 4 lion, but he
don't want everybody in his own care
beside himself. He lives in Chelsea,
and often comes to town. but to find
him is not often common even 10 his hest
friends.
Macaulv is club man. and when he
is not AMONG his idols (the books Of the
British MuSeumD he NAV be met with
in the brilliant rooms Of the .Athennum'
or the .Retorm.' On law hazv Lon
don day proper he might with certain
ty be counted on over folio in a snug
aIcove of the British