The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-11


phnantbropist, walter Savage Ian Tor. The
details Of the circumstances OF his death have NOT
yet come TO hand but the mere fact Is all that is
essential. The news will surprise no one for
1 Landor had long since outlivcd the usual span Of
| time allotted TO name life.
| He was the son Of wealthy parcuts living at
| Ipsley Court, iu the COnu'y Of Warwick, England,
/ where he was born IN us lie passed his earlier
| school days NJ Rnghy and received bis college
| education at IiiuIy, Oxford, enjoying oil the |
| time the advantages OF private iuJnr, and every
| Other educational benefit Ihat money could pro
| In lsC6-bnyiur previously Travelled on the
conuD,bt-La Landor dispOscd Of bis Estates In Stat
| fo-dshirc ana WarwiCkshur, which had been in
| ibe family for seven hundred years. ruis act
showed the eccCnirCity which after wards became
| 80 marked q feature IN Mr.. blndOr's character;
| for It was prompted by feeling Of disgust with
| ore OF bis tenants who aus .ondel with E3OOO
| Laudor had loaned him. Ia 1893 he raised at
| his own expense BODY Of troops fnr tho var ia
Spain and gave twenty thousand reals %
| the cause, receiving for all these services the
| thanks Of the Government aud coloners
| con mission in the Spanish army but on the
| extinction Of the consultation by Fsrdi-
! Dsnd he resigned his commission and returned
| to France, where he married julia the daughter
! Of the Baron dc Neuevillc, q cOurtor who held
| an apl nlmcnt in the bouschulh Of Charies Vlli
| Mr.. snd Mrs. Laudor resided for whto ~ FJur7,
| IN Franco; but after the bat 10 of WaterlOO 10 u-
| ing to trust the good faith Of Napoleon, he
retired into I'aly, and locAted himself at 4 orence,
| where for seven years he occupied the PIlazlo
| Medic; and then he purchased the garden and
| villa Of Count Ghcrardesra on tho heights OF
| Frcsole The better part Of his life was spent Ia
! Florence; but n few years ago hc moved TO Eng.
| aud and took up his csidouye at the elegant ana
| fashionable town of Ba'b. His fondness for mis-
| Italian home still continued, however, aud il
probably, on one OF his freq uent yisi,s 10 1t
| that he died.
Mr. Landor's literary productions are rather
| those of an accomplished literary am tcur Of edu-
! cation and refinement thAn Of a professional
| author. With every advantage of wealth and
| position to induce a life OF graceful but useless
ideness, il is surprising that he wrote at all and
as II is none Of his works bear the deep impress
| Of writer's who have been sharpeDed or spurred
on by misfortune or oppression. 10 is dllteult to
| Imagine o more delightful life than Landor has
| passed. Euucation and parental care in youth;
adventure and romance in early manhood; a
| middle age spent in domestic privacy ;and an old
| age surrounded by family aud friends-the whole
| career, moreover, enhanced by the possession of
| Il fortune which relieved its possessor from fear
| of the future or thought of the morrow.
| Mr.. LnndOrs tragedy OF Count Julian was the
first by which he became extensively known to
the public; and much Of its reputation was owing
20 the fact that Sou'hey hailed its appearance
with hearty praise. Mr. Landor's next effort was
"Gebir," an epic poem, translated by him into
| Latin, hut now quite forgotten, though also much
| admired by SOuthey. Like many men whose
means placed him above want, LHndOr was very
indifferent to the critical praise or censure OF the
press; and he exposed his contempt of the re-
viewers by offering hot penny roll and pint or
stout TO any critic who would write one OF his
"Imaginafy Conversations" But II he despised
the critics il must be added that the public were
| quite Indifferent 60 him; for LandOrs writings
| were not of character 70 attract popular favor,
| and only found real admiration in the circe OF
which Southey and Coleridgo were the central
After several miuor poems now seldom read
| Iandor published in Pisa in 1920 his Latin dykhd
lerOtCu and in 1864 appeared the first of the hvo
| yolumts of "Imaginary Conversations" sup
, | posed to take place between remarkable person.
ages of the past. In 1881 appeared new edition
, | of "Gebr, Count Julian, and other poems" in
1886 "Pericles and Aspasia," and "Satire on
Satirists :" in 1887 "Pentamcron and Pentalogia,
al in 1889 two dramas on Italian and dung Irlau
r subjects Removing 70 England, Lander brought
II ont new editions Of several of his works, addI-
:, tional "Imnginary Conversations" and "Popery
v British and F0re'gn," bl 1851; Last Fruit
% of an Old Tree" in 1853; Letters TO an Ameri
II can" in 1854; "Autony and OcJavius" in 1856
ard "Dry Sticks FagOted" in l8j7-'he last book
| containing personal illusions on n lady of Bath
. which created great scandal, end for which Ian.
dor was prosecuted and obliged to pay ElOOl
| damages. lie has also been for many years I
| contributor to the liberal newspapers of England
ard particularly to The Examiner. He wrote VIII
-. ease in Fnglitb Latin, Italian, and French. Tn
- works of he old age showed that though he has
- passed the 'fhTee-score and ten, his eye was no
~ | dmmed nor his natura rec uOIted. There wa
g som,tbing of the old liun in his nature and tn
bold CON batve spirit OF his you b seemed {
come cut with increased vigor in his older day.
O. Some OF his more recent newspaper articles haV
~ been marked by vig1r and sharp acer0ty who
rp Is surpassed in none OF his works ut yOung'
ege.
,n- undsrvslued in England but year after year tt
Try | scholar must go back TO LandOr for mulutut
ere 4 Of elegant s,ntences."
ns Mr. Landor's wit and humor were OF a ver
90 original character. Perhaps in none of h
''' writings as Mr.. Horne says in his New Spii
~ Of the Age,' "does their peculiarity occur 80 co
ou' tnuOusly as In q series of letters entitled Hi
ON. and Low Life in Italy.' Every sarcasm, iron
ers | lest, or touch of humor is secreted beneath
ond skin of each tingling member OF his sentene
nj Ifa and Ia "a lrn AFAH
The amidst various things, apparently intended
lead the reader astray, as certain birds are VIC
TO do when you approach the nests that cOntR
No. their bTOOds.
rhad "Or the ma n jefts and knotty points of pa
,orI | graph paned down to the smooth level of
ret OF the sentences, so that the reader may wa
VIZ over them without knowing anything of
vi mater All this may be natural 30 his geniU
it may alsO result from pride or perversity.
ir' far from seeking the public, his genius has
'ant- played a sort OF apathy, II not anupasby,
his popularity therefore the public must court II
day, they would enjoy IL; to possess yourself OF
rear. wit you must scrutnize; TO possess yourself
lack his humor you must advance, 'poipting the 70
only Such are the impressions deriYRble from
a by LandoT's writings. In private social iuerOou
aht noihVg OF the kind is apparent, and there are
,uor men whose conversation is more unatect
|3y manly, pleasing, and instructive"
80 Tbs same writer remarks also that "Mr. Lane
.on' is not &c al the product Of the present age;
iahu- scarcely belongs il he has no direct inAueI
parg upon II but he has been an influence % some
r. SIX s best teachers, and TO some OF the most rer
two illustrators Of Us vigorous spirit. For the res
ncea for the duty the TASTE the favor OF pOsterity
head when succession Of publics shall have sloV
and accumulated a rcsiduum of golden opinions
the shape of pure, admirng yerdicts of compel
hun mlhusi tuel on " II ever, VIII ne ATTAIN nus :
"a hy estimation in tic not altogether impatai roll
They @ i ,,oI f ~ hI' ~ ~, ,. I'M M i,i0 pe
y-siX ilisS sc-,e' 90 g,l t-r, Is o, cIa,v ~, ~,
'oEh | Let the words remain For In the tempt
poSterity ihero have hitherto always appea
day tone ilnmCrfalitics which had better have bur
prlT Vulf flg son frVap prL or pp hf
l-day have been BHtiCIed TO DRIFT away into Obliyi
dOal That such is likely 20 be the fare of the wrii
/ the ! OF Walter Savage Lundor NOBODY can Tor
The nept DelieYei but were II so destined, aud
could fCresC the result, one can imagine his TAX
al a secret pleasure In this resolution Of his WJ
into their primitive elements