New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-04
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY

! OF a proprietor who was always interfering, ant
F farmed his paper az he would have farncd pos
horses, conducting it "a he would have conducted
" any mercan tile speculation" But we are obliged
to suspect from all which we can learn from these
Records" that the whole London press was at this
time the free vehicle of defamatOry articles" A.
we 90 wandering through the twopenny English
politics of that time, wo stumble again upon
His Majesty George the Third, monarch III
whom al curious people take a special interest
Mr. Taylor assures that this addle-headed
King was of "A peaceahle and quiet disposition
highly alDiable in private life and friend
70 the arts" Nobody quite unit for rcgnirg ever
had such fine things SAID Of him by gentlemen with
an ,psurerable passion for monarchy, as George Ill
This poor man after all was something Taylor
admits that the King was Jealous friend of lit
erature." But these Jealous friends what did
they amount to then and what do they amount to
nowY
There are quantities Of odd things in tins curious
book. As the whole city is Just now disposed TO
musical palavcr, II may do no harm to mention a
Miss Wills to whom in early life Taylor was at
tached He saws that he nd have married Der II
his means would have justified him in doing 50.
- She proycd a very frail character" says Taylor,
aand had lucky escape he lady married.
soon parted with her husband; was run away win
by several Of her protectors; and hnalIy went 10
study singing with the wcll-remembcfed Ut.
Arnold What he said of her may be OF some Naluo
now He told her that " her voice was acid' her ear
Incorrect and that she did NOT possess tie requisite
talents" dane say, if she had lived now' that MI
Maplcson would have brought her out as HiS'
soprano. She tired to sing afterward IN oratoric'
for Dr. Burncy. but that highly respectable person
wa, obliged to give her mp 1t only shows that II
was as difficult to succeed then as now. The ms
gust of the public and the impuGcncc of managers
are perennial.
Itbrings Sir. TAYLOR considerably nearer our own
time when we find him giving his rccolcctionS 81
Lord Byron. He met him NJ Drury Lane Tn a're'
and took him at first for a lawyer nor did Lr per-
cciye the extraordinary beauty which has sh'c
been ascrbed to him" Aitrrward, having met
Byron again. he is Obliged to confess that m hi'
opinion the beauty Of bis feature, bad been mach
exaggerated" lie says that Mrs. Sldons re-
marked TO him " If had no other reason TO ad-
mlrc the Judgment and taste OF Lord Byron J
,hould be fully convinced Of both by Do, choice o
vie" The remark Is interesting, considering I.i'
hI. Lor.suip could not possibly have made ""i''
choice.
! am obliged 10 drop our cAcclIcut and earruI'u'
rI,ud 'c'JIr nave 4uit" oour WIN In 'nd ''.'''
hc has h!mct ceased tu chat, Co., Tbs own engaging
way along the pages. john Taylor would Dee ehoI-
muusly valuable now. n hr were INlNE, ne H.,
sort ol position an literary history Tor hr wrote lH'
Mons Tons d." originally -ct iofth Iu ballad,
which airfwaId wa, moulded mt play, 10 when
the elder Charlie, Matthews Won not % ttlir d. "I'
apulau 50, and fame. The OLD man. whether au ocu.
l,t or journalist, did not WIN much money ana
probably those who subscribed Tor cnpir- oi DDS
book thuu1hl that tie favor Na, upon l"ci
slnr. one finds 90 % ru immense deal oi fp..F
without the least acidu'ou7 iI'or u is something
tn come into connection though u Zoe no
morc than a connection OF prrusaI. with one who
m tie course OF aI- hlr mad kuo"h or Iaj heard Of
50 many remarkable people. some of uS Who sill
read Ike to dream Of the past ~ English literature
kindly John TAYLOR.