Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-29

don had been receiving those curt notes from
the Duke about his own portrait at Water
loo, which the artist was anxious TO paint.
A few years after, in 1915, Hayden says:
"While looking at the cartoons aud frescoes,
TO day, the Duke OF Wellington came In and
toppled away, looking very little at any
thing. Rogers was there, and it was curious
10 see old Rogers totter up to the duke, who
turned and said, How aye dop giving
Rogers a squeeze which made him write. e.
Greville then came up, and the Duke at once
began 10 laugh and talk to him only. There
is nothing so awkward to a man in the mid
die class as making up TO q man of high
rank, who, the moment he has noticed hin,
turns round and leaves him TO follow or
make the best of his way. Rogers had this
10 encounter to- day. Rogers was man OF
genius, the friend OF Byron, yet the Duke
did not familiariZe with him; but the instant
Greville came up-One of his own class
joking, chatting and laughing began, with
out any further notice OF Rogers" or Gre
vile himself Hayden writes: ''He is a fussy
man, too fond of meddling, and affects To be
40 very diplomatic He has that contempti-
Die tendency In men of telling little woman
tsh tea table lies'-as George ii. said of Lord
Decentralization make mischief in fami-
lies. D'Orsay tells me Grevile keeps a regu-
lar daily journal of everything he sees and
hears. II he does, God help his friends for,
II he records as he talks, he will put down a
great deals of what he neither sees nor hears,
but suspects"
BYRON, SCOTT AND WORDS WORTH.
HodgsOn, one OF his college friends men
toned by Moore, was always borrowing
money or byron, and when he lh0dgsOnl
married he wrote Byron, saying, Inpeni por-
tLun! Byron read the letter TO Hobhouse,
and, on coming TO this, SAID: 81 am glad OF
IL. hope you'll now drink your own port,
for, - me, you have been drinking mine
these five years" Hodgson was very fond
of giving Lord Byron religious advice. BY
ron used TO say, LAS soon as he pays me my
fl 200 will listen to him." Hayden said:
alt is singular how success and the want OF
IL operate on two extraordinary men, Wal
ter Scott and Wordsworth. Scott enters
room and sits at a table with the GOODNESS OF
conscious fame; Words worth with q morti-
fed elevation Of head, as If fearful he was
not estimated as he deserved. Scott is al
ways cool and very amusing. Words worth
often egotiscal and overwhelming. Scott
can afford TO talk of trifies, because he
knows the world will think q man
great who condescends to trifie. Words
worth must always be eloquent and pro-
found, because ne knows that he is consid-
cred childish and puerile. Scott seems To
wish TO appear less than he really il, while
Wordsworth struggles to be thought at the
moment, greater than he is suspected TO be.
This is natural. Scott's disposition Is the
effect OF success operating on a genial tenn
permanent, while Wordsworth's evidently
arises from the effect OF unjust ridicuie
woundlng an intense selfesleem. 1 think
that Scott's success would have made
Wordsworth insuffersble, while Words
worth's failures would not have rendered
Scott one whit less delightful. Scott is the