Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-25
MEMPHIS TENN; FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 25 1871
Ac,u..er or anecdotes

A cluster or Anecdotes. y
The last chapter Of Planches " "Recol-
lections," in London Society, contains
the followlng:Hgal0 .Rdi-F IOAa Ig
-Yas laa iaiao HOOK. 30 iai
Hooks fame as an improrisdtore is o
matter of social history; but cannot
refrain from giving Que instance OF his
powers which Is MS creditable to his heart
as his head. There had been large
party at his house of some medical
friends of ours and Hooks neighbors at
Fulham. 1t was late, but many still re-
mained, and before separating another
song was requested of him. He was
weary, and really suffering, but good
4 naturedly consented on condition that
/ Jsomebody would suggest subject. No
one volunteering, he said: !" Well, l
think the most proper subject at this
hour would be Goodnight, " composed
with his usual facility, but lacking the
fun and brilliancy which had character
lized his former illusions. Some oddity
of expression, however, in the middle of
his verses elected ringing laugh from
a fine handsome boy. son Of Captain the
Hon. Montague Stopford. who was stay
ling with his parents in the house, and
who had planted himself close to the
lpiano. b.
Hook stopped short looked at him adj
miringly for an instant, then, completing
the verse, added, with an intensity OF ex-
preston | can never forget: ..
''You laugh! and you are quito right. p
For yours is the dawn of morning,
And God send you n goodnight! !" ~
The effect was electrical, and brought
tears into the eyes Of more than one OF
the company, while cheer upon cheer
arose in recognition of that charming
and touching burst Of feeling.
0THAoKERAY. ii1
Nv acquaintance with Thackeray
commenced some time before he Joined
1.-THE Garrick," and while was the
guest of his cousin, Capt. Thos. Jas.
Thackeray, in the Rue du Faubourg st.
Honore, during one Of my many visits
to Paris. He was at that time slim
yonng man, rather taciturn, and not dis
playing any particular love or talent for
literature. Drawing appeared to be his
favorite amusementj and hef often sat
by my side while was reading or writ
ing, covering any scrap of paper lying
about with the most spirited sketches
and amusing caricatures. / have one OF
Charles X. firing at the Huguenots out
of the windows of the Louvre, which
he dashed off in q few minutes beside
me on the blank portion of the yellow
= .c oh. a n a. n
member of 1.-THE Garrick who was
specially unpopular With the majority
Of the members, was literally drawn out
of the club by Thackeray. His figure,
being very peculiar, was sketched In
pen and ink by his implacable perse-
cutor On every pad on the writing
tables, or whatever paper he could ven
ture to appropriate, he represented HIM
in the most ridiculous and. derogatory
situation that could be imagined-al-
ways with his back toward you, but un-
mistakable. His victim, it must be ad-
mitted, bore the desecratlon OF his lively
effigies with great equanimity for a
considerable period; but at length, one
very strong-perhaps too strong-exam,,
pie of the artists graphic and satiric"
abilities, combined with the conviction
that he was generally Objectionable, in
duced him to retire from the club, and
leave the pungent pen Of Michael An
gels Titmarsh to punish more serious Of
tenders than bores and toadies.
N'po ROGERS. ,.,r. ,.,,,
Rogers had the reputation of being.
very ill-natured, and many instances
have been given me by others. l am
bound to declare that all the time i
knew him never heard him say really
ill1natured thing Of any onei bat he by
nomeans denied the accusation. When
was young" he observed to me, - l
used to say good-natured things and
nobody listened to me. Now that am
old, say ill-natured things, and every
body listens 10 mel SO much has been
written about the Poet of Memory"
and SO many of his anecdotes circulated,
both in print and conversation, that |
shall only recite few that | heard from
his own lips, and, as nearly as | can
fecollect, in his precise words. Ale
1 My old friend Maltby, the brother of
the bishop, was a very absent man. 0he
day at Paris, in the Louvre, we were
looking at the pictures, when lady en-
tered, who spoke to me and kept me
some minutes in conversations On re-
joining Maltby l said, That was Mrs
-. We have not met for so long she
had almost forgotten me, and asked me
if my name was Rogers" Maltby, still
looking at the pictures, said, "And was
IT," an h
A man stopped me one day in Pieca-
lilly and said, How do you do, Mr..
Rogers?" l didn't know him. "You
lon't remember me, sir, had the
pleasure of seeing you at Bath | said,
Delighted to see you agaiu-at Bath, |
1t was the fashion formerly to make
your guests drunk, and there was gen
,leman staying in a country house, and
hey made him very drunk, and they
AIRED and feathered him, and put him
o bed. In the morning he woke, and
ie wasn't sober then. He rose and went
o cheval-glass, and he looked at him
ielf and said, "a bird, by -" n
A sufferer at Saratoga. ,si II