The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-01-26

routs and balls began to divert him from serious study. But his poetry attracted wider attention as well.
 But lie at Ealing had something else in store for the young poet than scnb. bling rhymes and reading the classics and day-dreaming. Here love came 10 him suddenly and overt oweringly in the form of a gentle girl year or two his senior whom he used to meet Tn l" green sequestered meadow by the side of the humble Brent" She returned his feel ings and for some time their meetings were daily and their love of increasing depth and intensity. But all at once the meetings ceased. Some time after let. ter came-not from her. She was mar ried. He suffered beyond description and from that time he asserts he was a changed man. Three years later came a letter from her. She was dying. She had loved him ever with unconquerable devotion; had married at her father command. She besought him to visi her grave. He did so and passed nigh long and solitary in unu,terable suffering This episode made lasting impression upon his mind. In his poems and his stories his love story constantly reappears He devoted to it long poem called The Tale of a Dreamer, written lust after his pilgrimage 10 her grave. And ! III hls last story kenelm Ghillingly re- peais at the grave of Lily the sufferings which Bulwer had endured tif.y years be. fore at the grave of his unname! love The son adds that when his father read this portion of the story aloud To himself and wife he was powerfully affected and all the next day was visibly depressed, SC l deep were the fountains of feeling from which he had drawn. The highly TO- mantle atmosphere in which SD many oi the creatures of his imagination dwell was native to his own character.
 Alter leaving Ealing he passed short time in the house of another tutor, for the purpose of learning which he did not master to any great extent and then went to Cambridge, where he remained till he was twen,y-one Cock burn, since lord ohiefjus,ice, and the poet Praed were among the most brillian, men al the university at that time They were leaders in the famous union debat- ing society. Bulwer became member and soon achieved distinction as de- batter. Iust al the close of his student career he took the prize for poem upon sculpture. In addition to his work for d degree, he wrote much and read extens- ively in English history. filling those bulky volumes with notes and illustra- trations of the different periods relating especially to the condition Of the people. These note books. rich in extracts from the early French and English chronicles. monkish records. Scandinavian songs. thy literature of the various eras and the like, are evidence of remarkably wide and comprehensive course of reading for d youth of nineteen. His studies in this direction led hum To contemplate history oi the British public, the plan of which reveals surprising breadth of view and maturity of thought.
 PLAN oE THE WORK.
 Dehni,ion.-D Distinction between pub lie and people. IL will follow that in diff tefent ages the public is still class, and only class. At one time it is the bar. ems. at another the clergy, at another the middle class rarely the popuface.
 tirst period The public to King John. Second period To King Richard H..
 
 Portraits of becket. Henry. Warwick Clarence. and all the popular idols Chivalry, wi,chcraf,, Lollards. Treat ment of those who would enligh,en the public. The people corrects the errors Of the public; that is 10 say. one genera ton corrects another.
 From Henry MI. to Charles I. Re formation. What did the public do with regard to authors. &c.? House of com mons rarely, If ever. represents people :; pretty generally taIr representative of public.
 Public from Charles l. to George |. From George l. to middle of George lN.
 View Of public since. Summary and results. Great reforms. whether tor good or evil. always worked by minorities Theory of reaction. Public estimate of authors. Authors moderately popular Tn their time generally the most durable. Books that enchant the public. and the ories that enchant the public. have sell dom kept their ground. The highest degree of art must wait long before the public can understand II. Fault of pop ular parties, to go with the public, and not penetrate the people. Astonishing fact that after a thousand years since the conquest no education for people. no law for people.
 Review of the principal histories of England. Authors not of most general popularity in their time; Roger Bacon. Chaucer, Guy. Shakespeare. Milton, Ter emy Taylor, Burk, Tn house of commons. Authors of highest popularity: Skelton. Defoe, Bunyan. Swift.
 In the summer of iSe,, his last long college vacation, he made tourney far into Scotland, walking and riding much. Al Wlneermere he sojourned for a tune. after having visited the grave of his loved one. and then wrote the poem which commemorated that sad episode in his life. He also wrote much prose. making careful study of style. In hls wander lngs he met with many adventureS-,h most oharRing of which was hls stay of several days in a gypsy camp. and his filtration, I, tha, Is the righ, word. with | hsav ,.t l