Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-02-18
Life and Letters of Fitz-sireene
Ela.IeCk.
Fly JAMES GRANT WILSON.

One vol, l2mo. Two steel engravings
Cloth gilt top, uniform with Halleck's
Poems. Price, $3.50
| This memoir of Fitz-Greene Halleck
was prepared by his friend and literary
executor Cen Wilson 1t is work that
will not only afford delight to every ad-
mirer Of one of the most gifted and genial
! poets Of America, but its "reminiscences OF
carly New York life, and its anecdotes OF
| famous literary men and women, both
American and English, will render it a
rich treat TO every person interested IN
the rn4,n and things of the last generation
! Halleck's rccollections bear the same
relations to the bygone times of America
As Leigh Hunts do to his contemporaries.
Ills letters are like his poetry, epigram-
matte and sparkling. No poet since By
ron has 80 excelled in the high art of let
! ter-writing. The volume will be enriched
| Wy unpublished poems by Halleck and
| Drake, letters from Rogers, Lamb. Poe
/ ma other American and English authors
md will be in all respects the daintiest
li>h OF literary gossip and anecdotes pro-
vided for many day. 1t is beautifully
printed ON tinted paper, and contains a
fine Steel Engraving from Henry Iuman's
portrait, together with views of the poets
residence and monument at Guilford
| From this valuable contribution to
| American literary biography we make the
! following extracts:
MISS FAIRIIE AND JOHN sLIDEIID
"Iallecl5 had many anecdotes to tell of
Did Miior Fairhe and his accomplished
daughters, Mary, Louisa. and Julia.
| Mary, the eldest, became the wife of the
ennu<at rragedian Cooper, the same whom
| the poet saw when he visited for the first
time the Park Theatre in September,
/ lSOS. The yonne ladies were all cele-
/ bratcd no less for beauty and charming
manners than fer their wit and yivacity.
| In one of Mr. Irving's letters. Mary, who
was the 'Sophy Sparkle of 'Salmagundi,'
Is styled the fascinating Fairlie: while
/ Mr.. Halleck, who most admired Louisa,
more than once, in speaking to the writer
! of the Three Graces,' as he described
them, said, All you should have known
Louisa F,irie.' Soon after the return
from Europe of John Slidcll, the late Com
/ federdte commissioner, whose father was
+ then Il worthy soap-boiltr. as well az the
president OF a New York bank Miss
Louisa met him at an evening party,
where he was strutting about III very
lofty and pompous manner, interlarding
his remarks with constant illusions to
When | was in Paris, During my visit
{ -
which he held with the witty Louisa, he
remarked, When | was in Greece by
the way, said the sarcastic girl, interrupt
ing him, Won must have felt very much
1T home there. Mr. Slidell Poor John
made no furt!ser allusion that evening to
his European travels. and soon after dis
appeared from the party, rs he did a few
years later from the city
ItALLECK AND NAPOLEON III.
Among the notable people who visited
New ! FORK in 1887 was a well-mannered
but somewhat silent young man, who was
landed at Norfolk. Virginia, from a French
frigate, III the month of March, and upon
whose cards were engraved Prince Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte. During his two
months sojourn in New York, Halleck
became well acquainted with him, meet
ing the prctender to the French crown,
as he was then STYLED. often in socictv
and having a seat next TO the princa at =
large dinner party given by Chancellor
Kent. Times change, says the Latin
proysrb and persons change with them
How a,toni.hcd old George the Third
would have been had any one shown in
mirror, like that of Cornelia, Agrippa
such vision of the future as his grand
daughter hcin., on a wish 10 The nrpbew
If "a man whom in his dYv EpoliSh s,tir-
isis were accustomed b. ridipnlra. :, 6+tla
Cor-icau. s,Ilirr" Rrlatiu,, IN thp unat
my h.,viuu seen yictari, lea,,;n., ~, Tho
-. VI, -.....a'I
,,.ith F,l,.,,i.. IN Pr, Nj. 49,,
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indeed .tr.r,ra thnn,,bt lit, d, Am
fellow which he cartainIv wa. Will
among mon. hat oprigntlv enough when
surrounded by Young ladies. lie would
,ometmeS say, w hen shall be at the !
head OF All lrs IN rance, or, w hen be
come emperor, and then looked, upon
HIM as beng as mad as a March hare, or
rs my poor TREND Mcdonald Clarke. To
Alfred Pell he said Of the prince that he .
was 4 rather dnil man, Of the order Of /
Washington \ lady friend OF the poet
remembers Mr. 11alleck describing him j.
Il person who never looks you in the face,
and who always drops his eye II an individ- |
ual, III turning suddenly, detects him .
looking ny yoH adding, on her own part
that the emperor s1ll has the same disin-
thha'lon I" LOOKING any one square IN the
idce. lhei poet ana prince exchanged
dinners the latter dining with Halleek at
Sillegrand : while he was entertained by
LOUIS Napoleon at the City Hotel When
Banaparte became emperor, and confessed
ly the first Statesman III Europe, until his
i1urels were somewhat dlmmed by the
frusslan Bismarck, the poet was often
asked Tor letters of introduction to his
imperial TREND, but, with his characteris-
TIC dlf1ldence, deel'ned ohtrudlng himself
upon The notice OF the emperor, who, how