New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

honesty, or exclude encouragement to our native
talent; Heaven forbidT' The passage is an answer
to much that has been said against Hayden.
In 1880 Hayden was in great distress and In prison
for debt One of the consultations offered him was
the following letter from Washington Irving:
fe from Won in the course of my visit other morning
could be otherwise than interesting to me- The grey
history of his art and are like the sOrdid concerns OF
men Of mercenary and vulgar cslngs. hope for tho
same complaint, but that those whose rank ana
opulcnee give them the means OF patronage VINO nay
so pubcly and repeatedly acknowledged the superiority
Of your talents, will bestow more eheetua encourage
ment than mere empty praise.
A year later we find Goethe writing to Haydon
adding his name to the list of subscribers for the pic
ture Of Xcnophon and the Ten Thousand, and saying
The etter which have had the kindness to address
has afforded me the greatest pleasure Ior as NY
has been elevated for many years by tie coclt
ton of he Important pictures formerly sent to me, which
occupy honorable station in my house. Ganno, nn
he highly gratifying TO me TO Learn that you sun rehc
me, and embrace this opportunity OF convincing o
that yOu do so.
There are plenty of letters showing what pans
Hayden took to be accurate in the least particulars
in the pictures he was painting-pains that they
should be really as well rs ncminally historical
He writes TO Sir George COchburn to know the pre-
else spot on the ships deck where Nelson fell, and
then twice to Hardy on being referred to him by
Coekburn. So about Wellington, who III 1885 re-
fused TO sit to him. and at that time Hayden got into
disgrace with the Duke by borrowing some of his
clothes from his servants TO get the costume exact
In the same eagencss for accuracy he writes to the
Dukes military secretary, Col. Gurwood, who an
swers:
I think could take il upon myself 10 say that Che
Duke of Wellington never took his hat OIL TO cheer on o
troops On any one occasion, and that at Waterloo,
although constantly under fire. he was IN the rear OF the
troops that fought az al oinces generally are OF t!
would prevent the fire on their own men; .,. i,
should say that Ills Grace never placed himself IN
tph all ~ "a
but there may he many incidents which might make an
interesting picture.
This was in 1899 when the Duke had ut last con-
sented to Sit not al the request of Hayden but of
Liverpool committee. In January, 1910 We find
Hayden addressing Lord Melbomne-whoso support
had been on many occasions most helpful 30 him
Since had the pleasure OF seeing tie last day Of
the SCI sion, have spent some daJ at Mamcr WITH me
Nobody need at Eis military success who hc7ts
him i.lS reads his dispatches me souno p3cucdl
he occasionally gave 10 IA Tor many OF bs pro
n ~ ,, nand knew yo,r i5rshp viii allow
De judge declare he tells story better t-an
any man ever hoard. not fXccplnE H!t Natf ocott'
lie gave s.ting~ for himself, imagined 10 be on me
Geld Of Waterloo With Copenhagen 20 years after The
hattie.
Hayden was not always Solemn though always
eager Eastlakc writes, thanking hm for ticket
10 his lectures on art ard adding: Success 20 all
your rational views" Hayden answers: " You dog!
| have no irrational views. | loyo my countEy's
glory more than | do my hfe." And then, most
seriously:
claim for il the same Opportunity 20 raise aname IN
art by state employ mont a. me German duSA ~ '4
germany when ther state employment spread it's bless
see 10 right that they have to inrude upon u. whom
We are in pIOgT-ssle state and Only want from our
Government tIat which tley -e nom thor own
You wish sUccgss TO MY rational views. "l4A con-
But my dear El~tate, iot arc never nia@e any differ
cnCc between lament IA alt th1Ic Is Iot INC Same
brood!lC ~ in politics.
Mrs. Barrett Browning's sonnet on llaydou's pie
tnrc of Wordsworth on fIelycllyn is we'll known. II
was sent to Hayden with a letter in which Miss Bar
rett says
| have indeed looked at your picture until lost my
no otnor WAY hav" Decn unSiat,iu. now -"lu ~
sol have seen tae great poet NEo " reiSns over Us
You have brouGl. me Wordsworth aYd Ec.fc!lln INTO
this daIk and solitary room. How should Not thaHA
you judge for yourself, Mr.. Hayden
The core pondence in the second volume instead
Of being given in order Of The dates is collected into
groups the letters to and from each particular per
son being given together. The list includes Keats
Wordsworth, Mise milford, Eas;lake, and Seymour
KiIkup With both Keats and Wordsworth, Hay
dom, relation were intimate. d" love you like my
own brother" writes Hayden 10 Keats, and the poets
ltte,s are full Of affection; of characteristic bits
also Of which can quote only one specimen:
1t is a great pity that people by assodatins thcm-
has damned Hatdpstcad with masks and comets a5.d
Italian tqi.s; Wordsworth has damned the iafoB; Nil
man has damned the oli dt"mad,' "'al ,t' ammo
wholesale: Peacock has damned -atIc; HaIiu ha,
caInucd De bigoted and the blgcstockiulc how dasas
the nsn3 re is your only good dahnct; lnd X over
sul DAMNED. should liAo him 70 damn mc.
The Keats Wordsworth, and Milford correspond
ence is among the most valuable parts of the book
but must pass it over, az Well the official CORE
spondcncc, containing the history of Ilaydon's ener
getc and disntercsted efforts to secure due rcc0g-
milton Of Art by the State. We come then TO tho
Table Talk half a volume of it, the whole set before
the pub ic without any account Of its origin, with
out classification, with scarcely a date, with few
notes AID those not OF The kiad needed. Never was
n book, | mast say again, more in need Of
editing; and there are few better worth il. |
suuuose this socailed Table Talk has been CLEANED
ont of the Journals and 80 is not properly Table
Talk at all But wherever it came from. II is trra-
sure. Much Of il is aphoristc in form; it abcunds
in anecdote, in pregnant hints art and artists;
with glimpses OF men great i'll quite other things
than art with Judgments on men and thing, often
wrong, often prejudiced and narrow, but judgments
which, whatever may be said Of them possess the in
estimable quality Of being genuine They are Hay
don's own; they what he really thought and not
what be thought he ought to think Napoleon and
Wellington figure good deal here, in The letter.
quote one anecdote of Napoeon--a scene in which
the great soldier appears as wildly if canvas
or more So Hayden puts the story in the mouth Of
Rigo. Il French artist who was in Napoleon's Egyp-
tian expedition, but the words evidently Hay
dou's Own:
Rico said The night before the battle Of Aboukr he
lay On thc ground IN the same tent with Buonaparte
About midnight bnoGaplile t2d Befhtr ana tle rest 70
to sleep In their coaks til daybfeaH Rg0 sand ne
WAS never BuOnaVatc but be attracted by is
80 l terrible, that It aiways impressed him.
and that Ibis night when al the rest were buried IN