New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-15


elegant Latin verses about flowers. do not believe
IL we searched Lord Campbelrs Lives of the Chef
Justices" through that We could find second eX-
ample of a Judge taus diyertlng himself. Moreover
the verses very good.
Sir Egerton gives most amusing account
of his wife's uncle. Matthew Robinson, sec
ond Lord Rokeby. This nitric chaTac-
ter lived at Horton in a most peculiar
manner. lie resolved to be shacded by no
ceremonies. hut to pass his days in independence
and in accordance with what he considered 10 De
natural laws. lie kept no carriages he never
mounted horser he allowed no lverles to his ser
wants But his housekeeping was liberal, ana MS
LospitaIity unbounded He so hated the artificial
that he took down his garden walls, and let MS
hedges drop. SO that his locks and herds, which
were fat and profitable, ranged at large HIS PARK
thus became very large and picturesque lie mad
great dislike TO putting out money at interest
For above fifty years he kept sum of money IN
gold IN his house in chests, which at compound In
, terest would have accumulated TO 100000. When
he died he had go 900 lying in the hands OF MS
bankers. He despiSed the public funds anda
WAYS predicted that they would break. When cash
paynents we're stopped IN 1897 he declared that his
prophecv had been fulfilled He dressed plainly If
not meanly and let his white beard grow down 10
his waist. | ought to mention. what Bridges does
not state that this strange Lord Rokeby was
warm friend of the American people during the
Revolutionary war, and often spoke IN our
behalf in Parliament. He lived to be
eichtv-eight years old. and died infinitely
regretted by the poor of his neighborlfbod. lie
was a brother Of the blue stocking Mrs. Montagu,
who wrote an Essay the Genius OF Shakespeare
and kept open house for the literary people OF Lon
DON She is familiar figure to all readers of Bos-
wells Life of Johnson"
Sir Egerton remembered Jane Austen, the novelist
when she was a LITTLE child Tie had no suspicion OF
her literary ability; but his eyes told him that she
was fair and handsome, slight and elegant, with
cheeks little too full" How shy she was of eXhlb-
fling her literary tastes is shown by the fact that
when Sir EgeTton met her at Ramsgate IN 1913
when she was twcnty-thrce years old, he ana not
know that she addicted 10 literary composition
Bloomfield, the peasant poet BrydIes found dull
in conversations but humble, supplemented and
unpretending.' lie pauses allude at considerable
length the dcstructi II Of the " Memoirs OF Byron"
II nav have been well to burn them but he eX-
presses the opinion that Byron could have written
an autobiography better than any other author who
could b. named. Indeed his admiration Of Byron
is strong and a little undue.
Sir Tgerton resided long abroad Soured by the
failure of his family to recover the barony of
Chandos of Sudcley he wrote at the age
of scventv-one of his native land with considerable
bitterness: IL care not for England, except
that regret the distance from the literature Of the
dav | owe nothing to England, except that Its
agents have enormously robbed me, and It's friends
have been fchle and heartless. hope the law may
now be reformod-ueyer did any country so much
want 1T Going back to England in 1926, he
found 1.-THE condition of the agricultural population
detcrioraed far beyond anything t'at the most
l...t tad aud oil
and habits of society proporionately broken and
degraded" He found few men of letters with whom
he cared to associate but at Paris he had the hap
pincss TO know Washington Irving whom he found
As amiable as he was eminent. He admits that
from childhood he had an aversion to all company
and that visitors pat him into agones.
Bridges gives MS an interesting account Of the cs-
adjustment of the Lee PIory press so familiar to
all collectors of rare anu privately printed books
In 1913 a composltOr and FRESHMAN johnson and
WarWicl0 persuaded him with much difficulty to
allow them TO set up private press at his sons
seat Lee Pri0Ty. He consented upon the express
condition that he would have nothing 10 DO with
the expenses merely agreeing to furnish copy, they
running all hazards and relying on such profits as
they could get He complains that in defiance
of ihese conditions they put him and his sou
TO continual expenses by applications for pecnnary
assistance 'no"s" '"'I ''-N nav 80 ,,.r,,
limited 10 u very S'h"ii ""'''' VI '0P - 80
hgh prices 'e pre- D vas ""'''i'o" III - '''
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ne TWO qu"IioiI'u - '"''S 60 "-- 1..i
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in IA, case exceeded one hundred-n many cases the
number was much smaller. The catalogue gives
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lance III TINS series Is 'oo u ''o So''i "" lug
lish poetry OF the Li%aDethan age bIS"ScS "u-
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