McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
Distinguished Bachelors.
Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.

CInclnnatl ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Miss Kate Sanborn concluded her
course of ten lectures on literature at
Bartholomew school, with "The
Bachelors" the other day. The ''Bach-
elor Authors was, she thought, diff
cult subject. They were so numerous
and had done so many curious things.
Pope, Pollock, Herrick, Goldsmith,
Macaulay, that good man Watts, Hans
Andersen. Voltaire, Ballou, Swinburne,
Newton and host of others were and
are bachelors. Pope was known as the
interrogation point of literature and
hated women. DR.. Watts is said to
have written one of his sweetest hymns
after being refused by woman. James
Buchanan, the bachelor president, was
something of an author, and used to
publish his love verses in the papers.
In art the bachelors were also nu-
merous. Raphael, Angelo, Landseer,
Joshua REYNOLDS and Beethoven were
never married. Congreve, the dra-
matist, was a specimen of the bachelor
lady-killer, and Swift, bitter and ma
licious as he was, was really of the
same order. Cowper was of tender,
sensitive nature, and was as shrinking
as the petals of a dainty flower. At
twenty-eight he met with love misfor-
tune, and the wound never healed.
Keats, also tendersalIant. MIR. Gown
had Richards arrested, and he wa.
brought before Squire Fisher who fne'
him $40 and costs. We are sorry the
Squire did not impose much larger
fine, and also when the prisoner actee
so outrageously during the trial that hi
did not fine him heavenly for contemp
of court. Another thing, isn't it unus
ual to bring prisoner before justice
with revolver and belt of cartridge.
estrapped around his waist. He SHOULD
hard line inc" 81 Sisa5 noney- = h Some :
thing serious pervaded his writings and
paintings.
Lamb was defined as the self-denying
bachelor, because he gave up marriage
on account of his sister. Gray and
Erasmus were old-maidish bachelors.
Goldsmith was laundering bachelor,
and his life might have been changed,
good-natured and lovable as he was, if
he had married. The ideal bachelor
was Whittier, who was everybody's
friend, gentle, good and kind. Next
came the CLANS, of whom Hume was a
distinguished example. Encased in
his shell he was regular bivalve,
scofing at everything and even defend
| ing suicide. Nowhere in his CORES
pondence could be discovered an evil
dence of warmth and sentiment.
The corpulent bachelor authors made
a long list. Hume was the latest 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 ridiculous, and he went
through several courtships, but forgot
that his lat kept pace with his fame.
Alter reading several chapters of the
ssRise and Fall of the Roman EMPIRE"
he got on his knees to make his pro-
posal. 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.
Humboldt was a general favorite in
society, and was courted and feted; he
was witty and sharp at repartee.
Though his name was associated with
lonely rivers, unpeopled wastes, noun
tain peaks and tr avels, he was never
known as husband. Buckle was al
ways an invalid and was devoted to his