The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-03

ing preacher. Bowen, in whose editor
ial service Briggs passed his last days, bad
just started silk jobbing house on the
ruins of bis employer, Arthur Tappan, who
had recently failed. Among the literau of
that day were Paulding, Irving, Willis,
Park, Benjamin, Poe, Griswold, Cooper,
and others that might claim mention. Ben
nett had just got the Herald on paying
basis, and had asked Greeley TO become
partner. Both we're as yet unmarried, and
were enduring great privations in hope of
success. Compared with the present time
1t was indeed the day of small things.
VARIED EXPERIENCE.
Briggs found that novels did not pay, and |
also that If they did he never could succeed |
| in fiction. "Harry Franco" was failure,
| but it taught its author to turn from looks |
| to journalism. He was an associate with |
Poe in the Broadway journal, and after, |
ward was employed by Raymond on the |
| New York Times. This was the first sue
cessiul paper he was connected with, and |
| thencetolth he labored in the service Of the |
press under various employers, until re-
| moved by death. Briggs could have told |
many anecdotes Of the RnickeTbocker times
| when Lewis Gaylord Clarke aud Edgar
| A. Poe were 10 war Of worda, and when
the unfortunate Park Benjamin was so out
rageousy lampooned by the senior Ben
nett. He could also narra'e the effect on
| the public of those severe castigations
which Bennett himself received, in pereon
not In print. aud which he so admirably
| turned to his own advantage. Such remi-
| riscences have an interest. since they illus
| tra'e that transition state which gave birth
tu the wonderful Journalism Of the present
day.
THE "RNIoKERBooKER."
Erastus Brooks too could relate some
lively incidents, for he had at that time Just
started the Express, and was fighting for,
| life. How sue, essful mas been MS struggle
his present opulent retirement can prove.
The Knickerbocker, as a monthly trt d haro
for success, but lacked that "progress"
which gave Harper's an immediate popu-
larity. 1t is an interesting feature in my
| memory of the Rnickerb0cker that the writ
er of this ventured an Offering to its editor
which was accepted and printed. | was
then boy-cerk earning 81 week, and
having bed in the Office was boarding my
self at an expense of nine cents per day.
This close economy, supplemented by the
kindness o. lady, who aided me with &C.
casional gifts, enabled me to go through
pressure full as hard as that of the present
time. That poor clerk may find in liter
AZURE consolation as well as recreation /
knoweby experience, and when saw my
maiden piece printed in the Knicher6ocker
in company with articles by Charie F
Briggs, Caleb Cushing and Washington
Irving, 1t was moment of ineApressible
delight. The poor clerk had showed the Of
fering in the editors box at night with
trembling hand; he had not expected its ac-
ceptance he had, in fact, looked on 1t as
J dead, and was therefore surprised by its
j resurrection. Such are some of the thoughts
suggested by the death of Charles F.
Briggs.
. THE "DUNoIAD."
In my last letter the types made an error
' which any intelligent reader could at once
$ detect, and l need hardly say that when
u spoke of Pope's day as ga half century ago,
J it should have read "a century and a half. "
! My extract from the "Dunciad" may lead
some of my readers to that pungent satire,
which for wit and felicitous hits at both
: men and the times, has never been cxcelled.
u Byron, who was devout admirer of Pope,
d found the "Duncisd" model for his
II English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,
II and the latter showed that the pupil was
not ia rbehind his master. Pope was the
only man of his day whose works sold suf-
ficiently well to make their author indie
3, pendent. This excited the jealousy of less
J. fortunate writers, who attacked him sharp
4 ly, and in some instances with justice. He
determined at last to bring the whole Of
y this class to a settlement, and this was don't
r in the "Duncad" The plan was takeI
ID from Dryden, but no one but Pope coult
~ all 1t with such OVERLOOKING satire, TIL,
publication of the "Dunciad" made an in
20 tense excitement in London. Pope wa
., then (l72s) in his fortieth year, and prota
y bly, nothing saved him from personal vic
10 lence, but the fact that he was a feeble an
u shattered invalid.
in PICTURE.
e. Sir Robert Wslpole presented copy o
OF the "Duncisd" to the king, and it becam
nc very popular in court AS soon as it wa
~ published, the victims of the satire met il
- order to display in a concerted name
y. their wrath aud vengeance. This THEY ex
y, pressed in violent words, but conclude
, 40 hat they could do nothing more, aud de
90 90 termned to wait for any chance that Nigh
ho offer This never came, and Pope es
NO capped, while the victims owe to the "Dur
&c clad" an enduring place in literature.
81 now suggest a subject for any first elias
artist-tbe ounces reading the "Dunciad.
Artists are much in want of subjects, an
,rs this has never been attempted. Properl
handled, 1t would make an admirable pie
" lure, displaying Dennis, Gildon, Henley
he Cibber, Budget, Welsted and other
ms all crashing their teeth as they read III
n. fiery page. One of this class, Jane
Ralph, was an early associate of Ber
Ast Franklin, to whom he sent portion of a
on epic poem. "He was," says FRANKLIN
he fixed in his determination to become
be poet 1 did all could to divert him froI
to bis purpose, but he persevered till POP
ed cured him." The cure referred to was .,
we're but effectual, and only required tw
h lines in the "Duncaid :"
, "sllence ye wolves, while Ralph to oynth
he howls,
of And makes night hideous answer him,
owls"
or THE vANDRRBILTs.
he The other Cornelius Vanderbilt is deal
ro- aged three score and ten, and his remain
air were buried at Nyack This shows at on,
IAN that he is of q family distinct from that
le- the late railway king. That there shou
emu be two Vanderbilts named Cornelius ms
seem strange, but years ago there were tv
men In this city named Robert Lenox, al
alls there are at present two John Jacob A
ar, tors. One is q real estate magnate, and h
- other keeps a cigar store in the plebi,
t IN. part of The city. The burial spot OF h
ltt' railway anderbilts is the Moravian churc
ing Here they also buried Charles F. Brigp
TO He Is the only literateur that found a gra
ave in that rural spot, and this gives it an a
nee ditional Importance 10
IN THE HERMIT OF NEW York.
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