The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-15
DISTINGUISHED BACHELORS
Cincinnati Commerciai Gazette.

4tlnClnnan (OnnleTCiAi Gazette.
 Miss Kate Sanborn concluded hei course of ten lectures on literature at Bar tholomew's school, with "The Bache lors yesterday afternoon. The |" Bach elor Authors was, she thought, a duff. cult subject. They were so numerous and had done so many curious things Pope, Pollock. Herriok, Colds mith Nacaulay, tha, good man Watts, Hans Andersen, Voltaire, Ballou, Swiaburne Newton, and host of others were ana ne bachelors. Pope was known as the interrogation point of literature and hated women. Dr. Watts was said 10 have written one of his sweetes, hymns after being refused by woman. lanes Bu- chapan, the bachelor president, was some. thing of an author, and used 10 publish his love verses in the papers.
 n art the bachelors were also numer- ous. Raphael, Angelo, Landseer. Joshua Reynolds and Beethoven were never married Congreve, the dramatis,, was specimen of the bachelor ladyk killer and Swift. bitter and malicious as hewss was really of the same order. Cowp, T vas of tender. sensitive nature. and was as shril king as the pe.a's of daint, flower. At twenty eight he met with a love misfortune, and the wound never healed. Keats, also tender and modest had been affected by Cupid's darts and never recovered. Pope had the iron driven into his soul by his deformi,y which made him all the more bitter. Dr. Thulenburg and Adam Smith had curious stories told about their love 4f fairs. ard even Hans Andersen. as gentle and lovaole as was his nature. had his trials, and told his story In his own sim pie and child-like way. Andersens rev cries on one of his desolate Christmas eyes, were read by the speaker. Turner, the artist, had his life shaped and sharp ened by his love shadow, and he became reserved md dropped into the hard line of money making. Something serious pervaded his writings and paintings
 Lamb was defined as the self-denying bachelor, because he gave up marriage on ,ecount of his sister. Gray and Eras- mus were old-maidish bachelors. Gold smith was blundering bachelor, and his life might have been changed. good naiured and luvable as he was, had he married. The ideal bachelor was Whit tier, who was everybody's friend. gentle good and kind. Next came the clans, of whom Hume was distinguished ex- ample. Encased in his she'll he was a regular biyalve, scoffing al everything and even defending suicide. Nowhere in his correspondence could be discov- cred an evidence of warmth and senti- ment.
 The corpulent bachelor authors made long list. Hume was the fattest of the fat. Not appreciated at home. he was intoxicated with the praise of Paris, and made failure in the salons as society man. Gibbons corpulency was even ri- diculous. and he went through several courtshlps. but forgot that his fat kep, pace with his fame. After reading sew eral chapters of his Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" he go, on his knees |, make his proposal. She refused. and Gibbon could not regain his feet until helped by two stout women.
 Buckle. Boyle and Spencer were never married, and the fact may have been that many of them never had time. Hum- boldt was a general favorite in society. and was courted and fe,ed he was witty and sharp at repartee. Though his name was associated with lonely rivers. unpec- pied wastes, mountain peaks and travels. he was never known as a husband Buckle was always an invalid and was devoted 10 his mother. Erasmus was a very face ,us man and the best critic of his ge Horace Walpole, who for sixty ,aarS satir, ,et men wou,Ap and thtn.s loved to write letters. In his old age he became Infatuated with Miss Berry, but feared that the world he had so long rid iculed would laugh him down. Pope de- lighted to write letters, and would send half dozen copies to his lady friends. Though many detested the wasp" he was devoted to his mother, and was seli- sacrificing. Macaulay was never mar ried. but his noble nature shone out Tn his letters to his sisters. When one of