Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-27
Recreation of iTen Of Letsers


 1 Wordsworth composed his verses while 1 walking, carried them in his memory, and got his wife or daughter to write them down on his return. When visitor at Rydal ! Mount asked to see the poets study, the maid is reported to have shown him 8 little room containing handful of books lying about on the table, sofa, and shelves, and to have remarked: s'This is the masters library, where he keeps his books, but, i" returning to the door, 'this study is ont of doors," where npon she courtesied the visitor into the gar don again.
 Landor also used to compose while walk ing, and therefore preferred to be alone. Buckle walked every morning for 8 quarter | of an hour before breakfast, and said that having adopted the custom on medical advice, it had become necessary. Heat or cold, sum shine or rain made no difference to him, either for the morning stroll or for ths after noon walk, which had it's appointed time and l length, and which he rarely allowed himself to curtail, either for business or for visits. | Equally careful was Longfellow in the pre- servation of his health. He persisted in out door exercise. even when thu weather was the reverse of pleasant. Both in spring and in autumn, when raw and clustering winds pre- vailed, he never omitted his daily walk, though he might go no further than the bounds of his garden.
 Darwin was at one ti ne fond of horseback exercise, but after the death of his favorite horse some ten or twelve years ago, he never rode again, but preferred to walk round his garden, or along the pleasant foot paths through the lovely fields of Kent Walking was Maceuly' g favorite recreation, but. like Leigh Hunt, he seems to have been unable to sever himself from his books. He once said that he would like nothing so well as to bury himself in some great library and never pass 8 waking hour without book be fore him. Certainly he could never walk without his book ''He walked about Lon don reading; he roamed through the lanes of Surrey reading; and even the new and sur prising spectacle of the sea-so suggestive of rsveris and brooding-could not seduce him from his books" Macauly reminds us of ThirIWaM, who, whether eating, walking, or riding was never to be seen without a book.
 The fsvorite recreation of Charles Dickens was walking. By day, Prof. Ward points ont Dickens found in the London thorough fares stimulative variety; and by night, ID seasons of intellectual excitsment, he found in these same streets the refreshment of iso- latian among ero Wds- .But the walks ns loved best were long stretches on the cliffs, or across the downs, by the sea, where, fol- lowing the tracks of his 'brsethers,' enc half expects to meet him coming along against the wind at four ard half miles an hour, the very embodiment of energy, and brimful of nfe-' gi
 Carlyle usually took vigorous walk of seven miles, enough to get him into glow before he commenced his days labor. Whether the spirit moved him or not he en- tered his workshop at ten, toiled until three, when he answered his letters, saw friends, read, and sometimes had second walk Victor Hugo loved to ride outside an omnibus, 0or w1o foTp nf pid AnnQFanf- ly, neither walking in the streets nor riding in riekety, bons-ehaking omnibus aided Carlyle's digestion, for a more dyspeptic and ill-nAtured author never breathed. It was he who called Charles and Mary Lamb very sore pair Of phenomena. and pronounced his talk "contemptibly small. indicating won- drou5 ignorance aud shallowness.'