Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-18
DUNDREARYs" HOME,
Suthern's House In London and its
Adornments.
London World, October SO.l

LOnuou MoTlui NcNOpeF oV.I /
"Lord D~undreary" off the stage is
not the Sybarite Of fourteen night
shirts. The home Of Mr.. Sothern Isl
most comfortable one-it is ever ele-
CANT in detail the artist temperament
governs all its hooks and crannies but
It is planted in the business part Of
the town, and there is no p%retense
about it. The absence of even the
gentlest ostentation is marked. Large
fire insurance offices occupy the
ground floor of the house the draw
.ing-room windows of the house look
down busy Bond street; over the way
is a great drapery establishment the
roar of Oxford street salutes the ear
noisily. You must turn within to re-
mind yourself that you are in the
house Of an artist and a man of Gull
ture. The drawing-room is an apart
ment more Of the sort New England
people call the liying-room than the
solemn and ceremonious salon. Pic
turesque confusion characterizes this
apartment, which is library and smok-
ing-room in one. Works of art are
here from every quarter Of the civil
lied and semi-civilized globe-not
only from all parts Of Europe, but
from Asia, from Africa, and from
far off corners of America. They
crowd chimney-picces, consoles,
tables, desks-the great carved
oaken desk especially, where
D~undreary sits and attends to his vol
luminous correspondence. Within
reach of the actors hand is the en-
broidered valance Of the mantelshelf,
which has been pressed into service
in a somewhat eccentric fashion; let
ters requiring immediate attention are
pinned there open, their conspicu-
business preventing their being over
looked and left too long unanswered.
At all the windows and over the en-
trance door hang baskets filed with
living blooms, each suspended by an
odd sort Of hook-a rude imitation in
brass of a hand exercising the evil eye.
These hooks were sent as gifts from
Mongador in Morocco, as were several
other objects in the room-hanging
cimeters, brass plaques, candelabra,
ottomans. 1t is surprising how well
the rough barbarism, in colors and ex-
ecution of the Moors harmonic with
the deep tones of English medieval
hangings and the rich simplicity q
old English furniture. On the wall il
front Of Mr.. Sothern, as he sits at hi.
broad desk, hangs a large octagona
china plaque, a lovely piece, painted
| by an Italian artist. 1t bears the head,
, of two children, a blonde and a bru
nette, surrounded by garland of ma
: iolica flowers, wonderfully true, their
T colors deepened by the ruby velve.
7 background of the suspended case. TIL,
desk is Uttered with confusion ofthos'
? small objects which the Americans cal
little bits of things"-by which OK
Q preston not broken fragments ar,
G meant, but those pretty bibelots, tn.
collection and contemplation of which
? give pleasure to the tasteful mind
q squat blue toad with yellow eyes;
~malachite paper-weight, the gift of
q Russian nObleman a monkey, in oil,
9 Deft, taking a bath in an oval tub
g love launching a ferry-boat in Sevres
Is the freight a. fortuitous load of pen
and pencil cases. On the chimney
g : piece, pilgrims TASKS in Glen crow.
d bronzes from Barbedienne, delicat
le carved ivory vases from China, a smaI
7 edition of Powers Greek slave in bis
% cult, and uncountable portraits of pei
sonal friends of the actor, On tn
!, ebony cabinet stands a terra colt
az group, by Wills of Ttania and Bottom
y Larger pieces, in niohoa padded wit
. ruby satin, represent respectively tn
te Good Samaritan and Hamlet an
0phelia. Amid the pell-mell of rug
Persian, Chinese and Indian-whic
IN lie about is a great bearskin, the col
up Of a huge grizzly" whose acquain
x. ance, when alive, Mr.. Sothern had Il
honor of making in the SieFgas efQal
W feylls, hefging as q fre-scTeen is
case filled with rare birds aud butte
flies of gorgeous hue from Americ
skillfully mounted.