New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-17
NOTES FROM LONDON.
rHE LoNGrELLow MEMoRIAL-IoLANTHE.


The Dean Yesterday received deputation from the
| Memorial Committee and gave a formal consent TO
| tbe reouest which Lord Granville. in the name of
| tbo cou,rnitfeo made 10 him. Those who have had
charge Of this enterprise have, il would seem, felt
able to ignore the opposition and even derision
! which their scheme has encountered Mr.. Coventry
| Patmore denied Mr. LongfelIOws claims TO the
honor. Sir Frederick Leighton. President Of the
ROYAL Academy. gave promise of support condi-
tonal On the satisfaction Of his scrupes about can
onizing foreigner The Daily Netcs which now
has sheer on its lips for most things American,
marked that Longfelow WAS poet widely read
especially b. people who did not for poetry In
dvduals addressed letters 20 the papers TO protest
against Lougf lows admission 10 the Abbey one
Directing because he not Shakespeare, others on
The broader and equally indisputable ground that
! he was not an Enqishman. Some very eminent
men Of letters declined altogether TO have anything
| to do with the committee OF the memorial. And
The Times blurfly declared. in he name of IN I'M
doubtedly large number Of the English people that
it wanted to keep Westminster Abbey for English
men.
In the face Of opposition so various
and general as this. Longfeilow's English
admirers have pcrsevered. must say think they
would have shown more regard FOR his memory if
| thov had allowed the matter TO drop The honors
| of Westminster Abbey should be conferred by some
| thing like unanimous assent and approval or they
| are no honors This is sjll truer IN the case OF
foreigner than of Englishman. | can hardly
conceive of Longfeow's American friends and adj
mrers taking much pleasure in an act of homage
which so many Of those who have the
| first RIGHT TO be heard in the
matter concede so grudglnglv. L remains
true that great many Others eager for 1t; none
| more So suppose, than DR. W. c. Bennett, the
officious secretary who holds find, degree Of
| L. d. from the University of Tusculum, whatever
| and wherever that may be. Lord Granvilles sup
port of the project is graceful. generous, GER
| tairlv sincere and diplomatic IN the bos sense He
| said yesterday, repeating IN substance an earlier
remark, that M hoped a memo nal in Westminster
! Abbey 10 Lrngellow would bind together yet more
closely in frian ly common feelings the English and
| the citlz rs OF the Unlted states.
! What the Dean of Westminster had 10 say in re-
ply to the request OF Lord Granville WAS oddly
conceived and phras d. In one breath he
declares he cannot hesitate for
moment; in the next he says NJ has
reflected much Oh tin matter. Tie speaks ofthe tribute
/ as a spontaneous result OF the Impression which
/ Long CLOVIS genius has made ON tie EnglisaNa.iou
! The Deans id,a of spontaneous tribote Is one
which j. yielded In response 20 continued soiict--
! tions. And htr. is sentiment which needs army
/ Of conueu -ator- o. cxpouud ir:
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