New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-17

cast in damages for libel; his property "aS -, -
and with small remnant, he resolved 10 q",s "'0
native land forever. During his residence a.
thony, however, he had married young gHi wiz
neither fortune nor accomplishments VINO 'eeu' ~
have been particularly unsuted to him. ana the last
soono ~ his residence ON British territory was a
violent quarrel with his wife. He lett her IN inc
Island of Jersey and embarked alone IN an oyster
hat for France 81 am resolved" he wrote 10
Sonthey from Tours, TO see her no more WISH 10
have only fl60 year for myself 1t 10 enongh'
have neither wife nor family, nor house. nor home
nor rrrvrit nor occupation.D The estrangement
lasted bowever only little while, and in Septem-
her ,s15 the poet, accompanied by his wife and his
brother Robert made journey to Italy, and settled
by the Lake of Como. OF Walters temper on TINS
tourney. Mr. Robert Lander wrote: ~
"He is seldom ont OF passion sulky ut, excepting
at dinner when mo is bosterous and goodhunoreu
than ever Then his wife is darling, beauty, an
and h bird But Tor se a. seTSny gentle patient and
submissive She takes all the trouble Is indeed TOO o ne
wished Il and able ne loses h bs ss sss t ss
purse, his pocket handkerchief VIII sbe taxes il All
very quietly"
Vet Lander was so little conscious of his own
weakness that in the last years of his life he sent
Mr.. Forster the following Dying Speech OF an ofd
Philosopher" ...
at strove with nome for was worth my strife;
Warmed Warmed both hands against the fire of life;
1t sinks and am ready to depart"
In 1891 we find Lander living IN the Palazzo Medlcl
NJ F1orence Here he wrote the Imaginary Con-
versotions upon which his fame chiefly rests. He
loft the palazzo in characteristic manner He had
written to his landlord, the Marquis de- Medci, and
accused him of having seduced away his coachman'
What followed is thus related by a gentleman VINO
was there on a visit:
a. Mrs Landor was sitting in the drawing room the day
after where and some others were, when the MARQUIS
scarcely advanced three steps from the door when
Lander walked up to him quickly ana Rnockeu us VA 20,
should have heard Landors shout Of laughter at ms own
anger when 1t was all over. mRRetateIy after he
sent the Marquis warning by the hands OF p0eena,
which reck0ned an ahiOnt, ana uuleu MS AOuoo 81
the end Of the year."
Naturally he was much in hot water with the Tuscan
authorities and once he was ordered to leave the
country in three days. Naturally too he peTemptory
refused to CO. and while he was dsputing with
the police some of his English friends without his
knowledge made intercessiOn in higher quarters and
the affair was allowed drop. He bought soon after
this villa at Fiesole where romping with his chill
dren and receiving the visits of friends he passed the
happiest years of his life visit to England IN 1852
gave him an opportunity of seeing certain literary
worthless Tan interview with Coleridge he made
little for the philosopher though put ON a Dran-
new suit of black in honor of the visit, and made
Landor as many fine speeches as If he had been
little girl, yet managed to keep all the talk TO hlnl
self and took no notice of enthusiastic mention of
Southey." An hour he passed with Lamb was very
different The two poets had never met before and
were never to meet again, but before they parted
they were old friends. He spent short time with
Southey and Wordsworth but some time afterwaTd
he took great offense at Wordsworths supposed in
Justice to SoutheY's poetry and lampooned him as
follows in letter to Mr.. Forster;
Yesterday Mr.. Morton, young man Of rare jndg
ment read to me manuscript by MT lennys1h. yeiy
the death OF Arthur 1t moro Homere Than any poem
Odyssea There two kinds of simplicity this exhibits
one II have time between the present hour ana the
postInan will attempt the other. the more popular
Il met a little boy on the canal,
And he singing blithely fal.de-ral
Now Heaven has placed 1t high mid human joys
Have you a fatherF Plenty he replied.
%09eE sS She T o1 gsssaay Sr siserr
She's dead I tin yon named herr mist her.
A. tHs spp StS e Shoulder Of the Clever cGd
1t was soon after his return to Fiesole that he re-
| ceived that visit from Emerson of which our coun-
| tryman speaks in his English Traits Lander
| seems to have admired Emerson, but found fault
with some passages in the published report of their
conversation, Emerson having apparently made the
not unnatural mistake of accepting certain hasty
marks of his hosts as the deliberate expressions OF
Judgment when they only the ebulltions of
passion. In fact. Mr.. Forster reminds us on moro
than one page that Lander was at times incapable
not only of calm Judgment. but even of telling the
truth. Greenough the sculptor was one of his init
mate friends at this period and in 1884 he waited
upon by another American, Of whom we shall let Mr..
| Forster speak in his own words:
| This was Mr. n p. Willis, whose FUSS and fury of
boundless herOworshp found In LandOr an easy victim
Upon quitting Florence, after receiving much hospitality
at the villa, he took with him the MANUSCRIPT Of anew
RSy %fo al hs
London deliver on his arrival there and he
aRSG SG T % aS Of oil nS
ished volumes Of the ConrnSaons but also the manu-
script that additional unpublished volume Of which
already have described the subjects and speakers both
ng aegaed r aSeoSB may be aaae
this time an American traveller passed through Tuscany,
and favored me with visit at my cOuntry-seat He
expressed wish to reprint in America large selection
Of my Imaginary Conversations, emitting the political
He assured me they were the most ha6ed books his
table. With a smile at energetic expression of
perhaps undesirable distinction. offered him
reservedy and Internationally my only copy OF the five
places which had employed several years In improving
sixth unpabished He wrote to me on his arrival in
England, telling me that they were already on their
voyage 20 their destination"
The manuscripts and books went astray, and Will
lis wrote giving doubtful hope of their recovery:
have to beg" said this characteristic euson that
you will lay 10 ne charge Of England part Of the annoy.
you wall feel about your books aud MS. was
more hattered by commission and have never ful.
filled one III. They went To America via LeghOrn, and
expected fully to have arrived in New York month
two after them. But here am sti, and fear
shall be for SIX months year to come. / will write
Immediately TO the United States for them" England
the culprit for having treated MIR ~ r. Willis well
that he could not ind it In ms heart TO quit the entertain
ing land: As to what Lander had written 10 him In
praise OF New 'Engand,-we, he thought that country
really did deserve not Ill OF his respect but 1t is
gracious people, and best judged distance. They
would offend your noons Of what Is due from gentle
man 70 another every hour IL you lived among them