The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-19

! that overiows the golden bowl, the last tension
that breaks the silver cord My last hope is gone
my last love and my life go togethcr-and so good
| night to HENRY HERBERT.
May Is, 1858.
| THE APPEARANCE OF HIS ROOM YESTERDAY.
| To Mr.. Anthems was directed Il package
containing number of private letters, which were
principally directed to persons residing in this city.
A letter making Mr.. Anthon his executor, and Civ
ing the latter the most minute instructions regard
ing the disposition of the body, was also found
upon the writing desk. in this letter deceased de-
sired that his remains should be inferred in plain
oak coffin, and that the inscription thereon should
| be
Henry William Herbert,
Aged 81.
And nothing more.
An envelope containing lock of his wife's hair
was inscribed as follows:
Lay this on my heart
-for charity,
Their names written there.
The interior of this envelope also contained the
following inscription in the hand writing of deceas-
ed, which he evidently meant for his epitaph:
HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT,
England,
Aged 81 years.
h.teIiciSsin,us.
Another letter contained draft at sight for flO,
drawn by the deceased upon a gentleman in New
ark for the purpose of defraving the expenses of
the funeral. portrait of Mr.. Herbert first wife
hung in the parlor, near the writing desk The
painting represented her to be a lady about 20
years of age, with extremely handsome features
In the bedroom of deceased hung old hunting
jacket, ingeniously made, which attracted the at
tenton of all those who were able to gain admit
tance to the premises.
CORoNER's INQUEST.
Mr.. AnthOn was present when the Coroner ar
rived and cheerfuly offered to aid the latter in the
discharge of his unpleasant duty. The cause lead
ing to the commission of the suicide fully ex-
planned by Mr.. AnthOn, when the inquest upon the
! body of the deceased was commenced by impan-
nelling jury of the following named gentlemen
Samuel Townsend, George L. Davis, Philip Far
| ley, Robert Ferguson John Mills, John Ward
The first witness put upon the stand was Mr.. An
! thOn who testified as tOlows:l | reside at No. Is
! West Twenty-fourth street; have known deceased
about ten years. intimately since 1851; | spent the
day in company with deceased, and we returned to
the hotel at 10 o'clock in the evening; | came to
see him because he complained of feeling very lone
ly on account Of his wife having left him, and on
| yesterday he told me there letter from his
| wife to Mr.. Lowrie, lawyer in Nassau street,
! declining any further intercourse or corrcspOn-
dence with him. all the evening he talked of killing
! himself; this has been prevalent theme with him
| Tor some time; he told yesterday evening
that he would go to the cemetery in Newark, where
| he last parted from his wife, and there shoot
! himself; he kept walking about the after he
came back; he said he would kill himself on the day
of the month on which he married his wife: he was
married on the 10th of February last did not re-
|
while were vet talking in the room he went to
his bedroom, and heard something like the snap
ping of pistol; he came out instantly and said, 81
| told you would do it,, and dropped on the floor;
pulled at the bell and alarmed the house; this
the entire history of the case the letters he has left
me fully explain it; deceased was not at all under
| the influence of liquor; this occurred about two
! o'clock this morning; the letters now shown to the
| jury are in the handwriting of the deceased.
Joseph Nj. Donan, being sworn, says:--l am head
porter at the Stevens House; about two O'Clock this
morning heard bell pull violently; l ran up
stairs and found deceased lying upon his face on the
tioor Mr.. AnthOn was in the room, and said he had
shot HIMSELF found the pistol on the floor; de-
ceased was groaning, and he died soon after; de-
ceased came here three weeks ago last Saturday.
Phillip OlIanlon, being duly sworn, says: have
| examined the body of deceased find gun-shOt
wound two inches below the left nipple; | am of
opinion the ball passed through the lungs and that
the deceased died of hemorrhage therefrom.
The letters addressed to the Coroner and the press
were then read to the jury, who, after brief deb-
| Grafton, rendered the following
VERDICT.
That Henry William Herbert came to his death
| by suicide, by shooting himself with a pistol May
! II, 1858.
| THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MR.. HERBERT
| Mr.. Herbert was a descendant, his fathers
side, from the noble houses of Pembroke and Percy,
and was the eldest of the eminent Dean of Man
chester, the Honorable and Very Reverend William
|
liberal politician. He was born in London April I,
1907, being at the time of his death ffty-Onc
years of age. He entered Eaton college when
thirteen years of age, and graduated at Caius col
lege, Cambridge, at the age of twenty-five Owing to
some cause not fully known, but varousy ascribed
to family difficulties and pecunary reverses, he left
! England to try his fortune in the United States,
where he arrived in December, 1881. His liberal
! education and proficiency as Greek scholar ena-
| h1nlh
fessor in the large classical academy of Mr. Hud-
dard where he olicated for eight years His class
cal scholarship, his wide range of information,
both theoretical and practical in every department
! of literature and his extraordinary capacity for
! literary labor could not remain dormant all this
time, and during nearly the whole period of his tu-
torship he was engaged on literary works Of vari-
Gus descriptions.
Besides contributing largely to various periodi-
Gals, he edited the American Monthly Uagazine from
1888 to 1886, published 'rhe Brothers, tale of the
Fronde" in 1885, and "0liver Cromwell in 1897;
the latter being his last work previous to leaving
his professorship and devOting himself wholly to
authorship. Since that time he has published the
following works:
HISTORICAL.
HMarmaduke Wyvil.
"The Roman Traitor; A Romance Founded on
| Cataline's Conspiracy"
"Henry VIII, and his Six Wives"
| ''The Cavaliers of England"
| ''The Chevaliers of France"
| "Knights of England, France and Scotland
'Captains of the Old World, as Compared with
| Great Modern Strategists."
| IA Poetical Translation of the Prometheus and
Agamemnon of IEschylus, and Prometheus and Ag-
amemnon of Sophocles"
'The Wager of Battle"
"Persons and Pictures from the Histories OF
| France and England"
"Captains of the Roman Republic"
SPORTING.
"The Field Sports.''
'Fish and Fishing of North America
''Game in its Seasons"
''The Deer Stalkers."
'"The Young Sportsmans Manual"
''Warwick Woodland"
| "My Shooting Box"
| ''The QuomGon Hounds"
| 'The Horse and HOrsemanship of America"
Besides these he occasional contributor TO
a number of periodicals, being more generally
| known under his literary monde plume ot Frank
Forester" He was also attached to several daily
Journals, and at the time of his death had an en-
gagement to write for Appetons new Encyclope
dia His translations considered excellent
especially those of the Greek and French and in
deed he has been called one of the finest scholars in
| the country His works on wild game and field
sports were said to be the best of the kind ir
the country and his last and most elaborate work
on the Horse, was the most voumnous of his labors
His pursuits and tastes led him to devote much at
tention to sportsmanship and natural history and
in these departments he is alone known to a great
many.
Shortly after his arrival in the United States he
married very attractive lady from Maine who has
now been dead about ten years; by her he had son
VINO Is now ABOUT sixteen years of age, who Is IN
the Military Academy of Woolwich, England He
received from his father for some years an annual
income of one hundred pounds year, to contribute
to his support On the death of his father the
money was placed in the hands of trustees IN thS
country for the purpose of erecting "a hohesrea ON