New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-31

milan. All the World was talking OF the young author
OF Pckwick" Mt a time when Thackeray, the older
man, still doubling, still hesitating, stin strug.
Cling" The he says, Is TO be found in the ma
ture Of the two minds Dickens steadfast. indus
triOus, full OF purpose, never doubling OF himself,
always putting his best foot foremost he had no in-
ward trepldation. and while the sympathy OF friends
good to him, he could have done without IL. OF
Thackeray II may almost be said that he the very
opposite OF this. Unseadfast. idle, chang abe Of
purpose Of his intellect but trusting IT,
ever failed more generally than he TO put hiS
best foot foremost" Full az his works are OF pathos
humor love and charity, excelling they TO Mr.
TrOope TO do most other written precepts that ha
knows there Is in them touch OF vagueness which nd.
using IT. IL was not until VANITY Fair" came Out
Qs4s that Thackeray first achieved for himself nsme
and reputation Throughout England He was then
thrty-seyen years OF age Dickens was thrtysix and
before.
POsterIty has never ceased to execrate with
all its vgor that Rev. Francis Gastrel who cut down
Shakespeares mulberry tree and destroyed the house
which the poet purchased for himself IN stratford and
in which his last DAYS passed. But what shall
be said Of poserty Itself since the house IN London where
Shakespeare llyed-No. 1874 Aders gae-s-is soon
to be pulled down to make for pile OF buildings
which shall serve as Offices for lawyers brokers and
money lenders Already the shop OF a news agent on
the ground floor Is closed and the other lost
their tenants Soon the sacregous work will begne
The houses OF Goethe ana schiller at Weimar tho
house OF Beethoven, at Bonn that OF CorneiIe, iu
Paris; AriOstOs, in Ferraraj Michael Angeles, az
Florence Rubenss, at Antwerp and the very stone in
his native city, where Dante used to sit the sunshineS
are guarded and well hOnOred Was IL not few
months ago that Keats's house in Rome marked by
tablet to catch the strangers eye Was II not I'M
almost the fortnight when the memorial building
dedicated in STAFFORD, that orders went forth
the destruction OF the Aldersgate-st. house Beyond
the great Interest Of this house the place where
q IL m
possess another value in being perfect example OF the
ordinary domestic street architecture of the Age Of
Elizabeth. But this consideration shown long ago
ia this country well as in England to be weak bar
rier to the progress of modern improvements.
Among the $50 portraits which Madame Lc-
brun painted OF the best known is Of Lady Ham-
ton Bacchante, reposng the seashore and hold
ing I'm her hand cup. 1t was made in Naples. at which
court Sir William then the English Ambassador,
aud whittier Madame Lcbrun had gone after her fright
from Paris at OF the French Revolution in
1889. She painted It for Sir william himself, but
must MENTION" she says IN her Souvenir" that he
frequently sold his pictures when he found he could
make money on them" 1t seems that he barganed
long time the portrait and finally got her to do ID
for 2400 francs, and afterward sold It in London for
5000 francs. At another time she painted por-
trait OF Lady Hamilton for a French noblcman and as
Sir william liked IT. she made copy Of the head as a
present 70 him. This he sold without hesitation"
Madame Lebrun remarks that Lady Hamilton was not
at all witty she very sarcastic and Datured, and
these faults the moving springs OF her CONVEX
sation. she very crafty, and succeeded In get
ting married by exercising all her cunning she had no
style, and dressed badly as rule LORD Nelson's cor.
respondence with her described most tender"
one morning, on calling Madame Lforun iouna neg
asked why sha had placed II there Lady Hamlton re-
Lord Nelsonp In 1902, shortly after Sir William died.
Madame Lebrun visited her in London and says she
come horribly fat" R. wortGingon will have {" SOU
venirs' ready early next week.