New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-28
Never til youth returns and the bright onthusaams Of

Never TIL youth returns, ana the Dngn' on'n"''' "
'o"'" "Tlere are no birds in last YEARS. nests
tho traveller whom wish the readers Of vide Aeake 70
know now shall pass rapidly oyer LIE nt after
the breaking out the gold fever in 1si9 NE Went
there a. correspondent Of THE TRIBUNE and inc e, ,
Which he wrote to better than those OF any otnr
California correspondent About two years rs ser Ss
Europe Tor the second time Mhen ne ad
he did no. giving ninety lectures during his nrst season
Then ne PaSsd1 Eas Sd Q. bcn are best East
poems ever written by an Amersan then c a
her volume of prose about the lands OF the Saracen
and another about North China and Japan. nan.
When Bayard Taylor was bachelor 1t mattered niue
where he liyed one place good as another to q
of his rowing disposition Ent now that ne was u
which he could call his hcme. lie had long fixed his eyes
spot of ground upon which when boy nc Dult ns
castles in Spain and which Inc meant TO buy some day.
when IL SALE and he had money IL was as huch
dream at first as his voyage TO Europe, but It became
he bought IT. or rather il bought for him during his
residence abroad: II lies in sight Of and immediately
separated ny country road that goes winding up
hin and down vale through stretches OF Deauthai
scenery. The border which faces the ROAD Is
wooded with tall trees, through which you catch
& .as %,S Similar sP o S GSrss It wSs
originally what the English call croft an inc0scd hed,
cstened il Ced srcro The site that ne selected Tor
his house at the upper end Of his grounds an eev
iOn which slOped away III natural terraces and III front,
in gentle decyiy Of lawn Nature made the spot ior
poets house, and poet made u his home. He went 10
prosperous gentlemen Sixteen years OF hard work were
rewarded in Ccdarcroft am not enough of an archct
in Bayard Tuylors house, indeed do care. IL Is
gh for 10 know that 1t ~ large, cOmiOrtape
country which my mind is the perfection of pastoral
landscape. like the seaside better tGan an' Inland
scenery, but after me seaside give me hehhc'' oqudo
from the tower At CedarcrOn -
When Ccdarcroft was hnlshed Bayard Taylor gave his
friends aud neighbOrs what might be called mousse
warming. went the rs his Old acquaintance ana one
pleasant Summer day, when The last hmshhg ,ohcies
I'M ynd tlslp Of
play and producing it ~ the new house before country
audience. We retired mysieri0usiy INTO room ~ our
selves tie tower, If memory serves me, ana COM
Uienccd wonderful labors We set 10 work
ierted q tncmc Then we remembered the caiaci-
ties 0; those whom we mad chosen 10 play
when the play snould he written, aud lifted them
with parts; then we began TO write: Sometimes
BayaId Taylor wrote whole scene without hliJ heip
from me- sometimes wrote whole scene WlthOdt any
Iielp from him. aud sometimes wrote "A whole scene
together e the speeches oi character the speeches
,,c dVh a and ave tn" attolS their parts to learn
Milling The difficult thankess part of stage manager
as NY own part. ihe library, Whleh was al inc
further eud Of the house, facing the barn. Was turned
into a stage by running up a paiutlon OF n'S,in SUN
cieny far from the walls to allow IA to enter unf
ceiycd from tie greerroOD, wnieb, by the way, was
Tie dnlng0um, and 10 make our exits ana entrances
property Whch our company lad icaihr1 uiti p.i,s'
and had gone through enough rchearsals TO acquit
themselves eredabiy We went u an od disuscd PRINT
my Ollce Ill heLnctt SQUARE dht hct ~ anu fii".
bls Tor the performance Toe important udy came,
away, sinit minded country iJi&, many Oh whom niu
never entered OF perhaps hcaid ol pap -nouse INC
pall0I, which nOhIcu lhc Hotdty, ana tHG htu "
tween parior and the library, were packed Win the
audience. The belt Hukieu, aud the cui tam FOscoi
were tIe library doors run lAio the iuutoA wall!
have forgotten does IL mater now. The play Began
The u country hotcl, at WIN Two atics wclc
stopping a amt ana niece one Of wn0ni waa wealthy
la ara IaN ul al, army officer urUuSn. III oEc
with The niece, whom / made love on account 81 heI
supposed wealth. | airy, npudci scamp, snci
occasionally found at hotels Nin- cAtlhVd6h'ly
IN nothing year The landlord OF tn5 honi Wa t.i
Young stuff d himself Out into falstiH wltl
bed pillows. There "A Yankee servant Yll, an Irish
servant man. and other characters which nave forgot
20 his rl landlord cnidgcd ut scamp Tor hU' pay
ing HIS board bill scamp was III u quandaiy between
niece ;ti.d aunt You make the play out o Tins Ia
sun yourselves, and have 40 DOUBT bGt IL VIII De as
good as tie made which appeared 10 delight our
mpc-mndcd audience, who ligBcd ~ the JOKES, but
ilSs ed best Joke vi All namely, tha tAeic vas not
one original character, situation, spcoch, uuuSnl or
WoId IN tIe thing. That tie joke OF Love III
Hotel" winch played for The first ana l's, Time
one SauI,nel day II years ago at CedaIcIOit