New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-25
SWJNBURNE AND CONCORD.

A DISTINGUISHED American Hteratcur in pub
li.ben interview was recently reported as speaking
with yieor of rhetoric we may be excused from re-
neatinp of MIA. c. Swnburne. The interview died
onety ON this side of the Atlantic, but met fatal
Immortality beyond seas by falling nnder the eye OF
tho author of Chastelard In letter to personal
friend who has had the indiscretion to send copy
to THE TRIBUNE with a request for publication the
poet thus deluges his critic with the uncean walls OF
his wrath:
lam informed that certain American journalists. not
contant providing Gh nf their own for the con
ANIMATION OF their kind sometimes offer to their readers
beastness which they profess TO have gathered
from under the chairs OF more distinguished men. While
the abuse lavshed my name and writings could
claim no higher than nameless source, have always
been able to say with Shelley, 81 have neither curl
o,ty interest, pain pleasure IN anything, good or
evil they can say of me. feel only slight disgust
and a sort OF wonder that they presume to write my
name" II J am to believe that that name has been
made the such vile language as IA now publicly
attributed OF note IN the world oil letters L. VINO
am sufficiently expert in the dialect oil the cess
pool and the dlngoart to retort in their own KIND Oh
these venerable gentlemenI whose ears and lips are
alike unused to the amenities OF q conversation EN-
brodered with such fragments OF fOwery rhetoric as
may be fsned up by congenal fingers or tapped up by
copgenal tongues out OF the sewerage OF Sodom-can
return no better apt reply than was addressed
nv The servant OF Octaya the satellites OF Nero, and
anplied by Lord Denman wheH counsel for Queen Caro-
line 10 the sycophans of George ~ foul mouth Is
40 IN matched with white beard that would gladly be-
lieye the newspaper scrbos alone Responsible for the
besal utterances which they declare TO have dropped
from teacher whom such disciples these exhibit TO
and compassion. performing on their OBJ
scene platform the last tricks Of tongue now possible TO
a gaItoohed and hoary headed ape, carried frat INTO
notice the shoulder OF Carlyle, and who now In his
dotage splits aud cbatera from dirier perch OF his
own nndlng and foulIng. Ayerting, with o peculiar
emotion which need not specify eyes and nostrls
from the sight aud OF such things. need not
stoop though to blow of speck OF their leaving
from name which trust and think though it well
be that gained nothing, has at least lost nothing
in my hands Of Its hereditary honor. Those to whom 1t
is known only object Of reviliDg from writers with
or without name OF their may yet do well to ask
themselves how such folles and such ylanes may
be likely to affect the repute disturb the conscious
ness Of one to whom 1t is given TO remember that we'll
nigh al the very Of his he had earned the
praise and won the friendship Of Lander OF Hugo and
OF Mazzini and who though ne may see no need and
feel no inclination to seek shelter behind the name
beneath the countenance OF any man. has yet in the
sense OF this not unmerted honor, enduring
OF such pleasure and such pride the " most sweet
yoces OF his reyiers about equally competent TO
give and to take away. A. c. swISBURSE.