Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-09

How the Two Authors Worked To.
gessscr In tsarss-Tbcir Joint a.ab0rs
liza Adapting EreHcsa Plays. &c.

Nearly every one who has written OF John
Howard Payne has noted his acquaintance and
association it'll Washington Irving in Paris in
1870 and lS2!. il i not generally known. however
that the two, besides Decorating most intimate
friends. formed a sort o: literary partnership.
Several y? the plays ascribed to Payne were the
b,o1cct, II appears, OF their joint efforts. MI
Richard Henry StO,idard In his biography OF IrY-
ing, written some years ago, glTes the following
interesting particulars concerning the association
OF the two authors: THE summer Of 1920 found
him uryingl In Paris with his broth Peter, and
hef0Te the close OF the year he had made the
acquaintance OF Moore, the poet, who was sport
Ing In exile in France, while his friends were Try
ing TO settle claim which the English govern
mcht had against him on account OF the defalca-
t tn ~, OF the depu;y s who had hlled.
had been appointed about seventeen years before.
Moore lOtteti down in his diary that they met at
the taote dh3ff at Meurice's {the most expensive
meter III Paris and tat the successful author was
"A good looking and Intelligent hammered man
seven days later they met at Moores cottage in
the Champs Elysecs, AMI scarcely day passed
Without their seeing each other Moore was try
ing 10 work now on his life Of Sheridan and
now on an Egyptian 70 Gee, but II was the
merest pretese as his diary bears witness, for he
notes lii entry that he had been no less than five
weeks In writing one hundred and ninety-two lines
or verse and in another, when he thought he had
been more Industrious, that he had written nearly
fifty lines In week. The fertility OF Irving. who
wrote with ease. when he could write at all, as
f0niShed him. irving called near dinner time
ne wrote on Marcel 18th, 1921; asked him to stay
and share our roast chicken with us which he did.
HG has DrGn hard at work writing lately: In
the course OF ten days he has written about one
nrndred and thirty pages of the size Of those IN
the sketch Book; this IS amazing rapidity.'
Another writer was In exile In France at this
tl.ae, fellow tOwnsman OF Irving, John Howard
Payne. who Lad taken the critics of New York by
Wofm When he played lOhnD NOTrGt at the Park
theater; who had gone to England about two
years before Irving, where he became dramatic
none at all, and who Is now chiefly remembered
Ds the song or Home, Sweet Home.' London
where Irving brc3kfaSted with him, after which
they paid visit 10 Talma together" Irving
went back TO London In 1881 and, his biographer
says brought over with him petite comedy OF
fayne's, with the omiDOus title OF "The Borrow
er, ana made frrltless attempt to have it pro-
ducei Oh the stage. "Nearied py his London lile,"
continues the biographer "Iryinr started
On tour on the continent, which lasted about
month, and which nnauy brought
Nr ct Paris He was not In trim for composition
when he settled down again. but was haunted by
inc Gfead OF future failure. y kind OF nervous
HIS poetic friend Moore had returned To England,
where ne han been delivered OF mis- Loves OF the
Angels, out his dramatic friend Payne WIS sim
an exile III Paris, and was the tenant OF two resi-
GenCeS, Oh" oi which IN the Rue Rchelieu. he
rented TO Irving. lie succee led In pcrsua(llng
Irving 10 Join him In his dramatic undertakings,
hesse de RlcEelicU, a French play, which had
been acted about thirty years before. They were
and lr'ins's share IN the projected manu-
i I was to be kept secret.
ILty MUS nave NolhfU WIN Srh;tt rdpiuity, Tor
IN addition 70 the play just mentioned they CON-
petes Translation Of another. entitled 'AZen;.ai'
watch was Intended 10 be set to music; besides
Two other, Bellies and B1iiifI5,' ami Married
ana Single. not fOr,ctting .Abul HaSsar.' a
German opera, which Irving had done into Eng
Il5n az Dresden Laden with these productions,
fayne set cE privately for London, from whtca ne
as debtTTod 10y MS creditors, and put himself In
eonnlunic" tioE with Charles kemhle. While he
vas undergoing he delay Incident TO acceptance
Or rejection, Irving tran Smttel to him the manu-
script OF Charles IL; or the Merry Monarch
three act comedy from the French or l.. Jcunes;e
&c DE nry V. o, which, as FAR can understand,
he was nearly, II not quite. the sole author or
adapter. TWAS sold b. Payne to Coyent Garden
theater for two hundred guineas, together with
Ia JeuneS>e dc kichelieG. ana IS produced In
The following spring NAV. 1S2i) with great sue
cess LII JeuueSse de RicheIeu' was produced
nearly two years later and Withdrawn after few
nights