New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-05

semblance Of him." VI hOtZeDue Ho "ii.0''
He was living, like Goethe, in large house ana Ia
STYLE. drank tea with him, and fonnd him livery
Ittle man with small black eyes. He had the man
ners Of Petit maiae. He married man with a
large family. and seemed to be not without the do
nestle feelings which he has so successfully painted
in his works. We were ushered through sInte OF
rooms by a man servant and found Mr.. President IN
state Nor is it unworthy of remark that Ills mouse
had thirty-seyen windows in front"
During the same visit to Germany he first met
Madame de Stall to whom his diary contains ire
ouent illusions. The acquaintance mad rather
comical beginning Madame de Stael wanted heip
in getting up an acquaintance with German litera-
turc for her hook and B0ttiger "a very labori-
ons matchmaker and honest tagging scholar, noted
for his courtesy to strangers" wrote accordingly to
Robinson: "Madanle de StaGl, from whose lips How
spirit and honeyed speech. wishes to make your ac-
ouaintance, dearest Sir and friend" Mr. Robinson
very cheerfpily gave his services.
ON the Gsth Of January first waited on her. was
show 100 her bedroom, for which, not knowing Partisan
custOws, was unprepared. She was sitting. most
car on, and her face not made for the day IL
vas by no means captivating spectacle but had
beDignantly on me. After warm expression OF her
pleasure AT making my aequantance she dismissed me
til o'clock On my return found very different per
son-the accomplished Frenchwoman surrounded Dy az
mirers some of whom were themselves asIings tI
ana believe on almost every other occasion, but one
Madame dc SaG did not affect TO conceal her preference
for tho society OF men to that OF her own sex.
I, Mr. Robinson became her friend but was not an
ardent admrer. lie says she was precisely what
Charles Lamb suppOses all the Scotch to be,-inca-
pable of felpq Joke" Goethe and Schiller regarded
her visit to Weimar rs intiictiOn and would not
go near her. Robinson told her one day. Madame
Won have never understood Goethe and you never
will understand him !" and she made a very char
actcristic reply: Her eye ashod-she stretched ont
her fine arm, of which she was justly vain, and sad
in an emphatic tone, Monsieur, je cOmprends tout
ce Gui m6rite d6tre comprise que je ne comprends
nest REM" Her success in spelling fine things was
wonderful. Mr. Robinson repeated to her one day
this saving of Rants: There are two things
which the more | contemplate them the more
they fill my mind with admiraton,-the starry heaV-
ens above me- and the neral law within me-" She
sprang mp exclaiming. All. que celia est beau! ii
faut que 10 l6crive'-and years after, In her die
nagne found it Frenchfed thus: Car, CONNIE I'M
phiosophe c6lebre tres bien dit: Pour les cGurs
sensibles il V deux chooses The grave philosopher
of K0nigsberg turned into 'cGur sensibe?"
Returning to England after five years study and
travel in Germany, among the earliest of Robinsons
literary acquaintance were Charles ana Mary
Lamb He was with them at the first performance
"
Garden and relates that when the pit damned the
play the author was one of the oudest hsseTs in the
house. OfLambs puns and good sayings few are re-
corded. Here however are one or two:
Dee 3o-After dinner q rubber at Lambs then went
with Lamb and Burney TO Rickman's. Hazlitt there.
pleasant mood Hickman produced one Of Chaterton,s
orgees In one ma3Tsept there were seventeen ho ave
been written BY one TssS Of the who writ. with ease.
"A O'Clock
was there, and We played rubber and aierWHrd TAI
We talked Of puns, wit, &c Lamb has no respect for
any wit which turns serous thought lie positively
declared that he thought his joke about great irt
cause least understood" bad one On the Other hand,
he said "liyou will quote any OF my J9Aes qnoe UNI
several of their children were with Hume repeated
the old saying One fool makes NAM Ays MI Hume;
Neither TafouTd nor could see the excellence OF this
ali held TO be capital Lamb had written 10 Coeridge
about one Of their old Chriss Hospital masters who had
been q severe discpinarau, intlmatnR that he hoped
Coleridge had forgiven ali injuries. Coleridge replied
that he certainly had he hoped his sonl was In heaven.
and That he went there he was borne by host OF
cherubs, all face and wing and without anything 10
excite his whipping propensnes.
One evening, when was at the Atkins, Charles Lamb
told drol story OF an Indahouse clerk accused OF eat
ing mau's flesh, and remarked mat among canni9als
those who rejected the favorite dish would be called
interchangeable.
The acquaintance with Lamb led naturally to fire.
quent intercourse with Wordsworth and COleTdge,
and Wordsworth indeed divided with Goethe the
first place in Mr.. Robnson's esteem.
Mays-A visit from Wordsworth. who stayed with Inc
from y and til past g. then walked with him 10 New
man-st His conversation was long and interesting lie
spoke Of his poems with the inst feeling Of conf
dence which sense OF his own excellence gives him. lie
is convinced that lie never can derive omolument
from them; but being Independent he willingly gives up
all idea Of doing He is persuaded that II men are 10
become better and wiser the poems will sooner later
not to ADVANCE in civilization, 1T would be-" said he
"wretened se.hpess to depioIe the want ,O OF
with from superior persons cOmpensates for the loss
Of popularity, though no man has completely Understood
to enter into his feelings. 81 myself" said Wads
worth one OF the Lanpess Oh men ana no NAN %IS
constant hustle, and whose felicity depends the oPn
poems" urged an excuse for those who can really en-.
Joy the better pieces, and who are yet offended by
consider unpSocai; and Wadsworth seemed to tolerate
this class aud TO allow that hts admirers should undergo
sort OF education TO his works
Touching Coleridge we can spare room for no more
than the admirable description of the first Of his
course of lectures on Shakespeare and Milton:
Dec. 5-Accompanied Mrs. Rutt TO Colerdge's
lecture In this he surpassed himself in the Of talking
in very interesting way without speaking at all on the
subject announced According to advertisement he was
TO lecture on Romeo and juliet" and shakespeare's
Tense Of schOOlhoggng, in preference at least Ian
casters mode OF Furnishing without pretending to find
Afterwsrd he remarked on the character Of
pared with that Of Charles L. distinguished not
very clearly between Wiz and fancy; referred
TO me diheient LANGUAGES Oh Europe saeked th9 iss
the tautolOgy OF JOhnsOns line II observation with
tenslve view &C.; and warmly defended Shakespeare
against the charge OF impurlty While COeridge was
commenting on Lancaster's mode Of Furnishing boys.
Lamb whispered cit is pity he did not leave this I'LL
he got TO Henry W. for then he might say be could not
help taking part against the Lancastrians" Aferwad.
when COleTidge running from topic TO topic Lamb
said "This il not much amiss He promised lecture
the Nurse In Romeo and Juliet and in its place lie
has given one in the manner Of the Nurse"
A story about Mrs Siddons and the father of Maria
Edgeworth is worth quoting:
June l3.-Went to Mrs. Barbaulds. Had pleasant