The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-01-10
ANECDOTES OF AUTHORS.
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IaUlGA WGQSkSk AVVG4 AG0IBH HIS G6INSS, and used to get his indolea. son, Fletcher, out of bed before daylight to hold the lantern while be fed his coEs. "You don't seem to like 1t, Fletcher" he used to say. tsI like to look into their klndiy faces, and smell their breath" he sad, and he had his oxen driven past the lib rary window at Marsh6eld to tell them goodbye before he died. When Choate was his guest at Webster Place, he used to rap at the door Of his room, where he was reading, and call to the great lurist. "Oh, come along. Choate let's go and have a look at the pigs"
 That Anthony Trollope was prodi- gious worker is shown by the following words, which appear in his ausobio- graphy: It is my custom" he says, .Hto write with my watch before me, an 10 require from myself tSo hundred and fifty words every quarter of an hour. have found that the two hundred and fifty words have been forthcoming as regularly as my watch went" MT. Trollope bossted that his t literary per fornances were more in amount thaa the works of any other English author
 When President Garfield gave General Wallace his commission as minister to Constantinople, he wrote across the pa- per Ben Hur "a graceful compliment most gracefully given. In Constantino- pie, General " ai;ace has been rScSiv .d with distinguished honor and attention. {" Ben Hur" has been translated into Turkish by the imperial scribe, at the Sultan's orders.
 Tassos conversation was neither gay nor brilliant. Dante was either taciturn or satirical. Butler was either sullen or biting. Gray seldom talked or smiled. Hogarth and Smith were very absent minded in company. Milton was very unsociable, and even irritable when pressed into conversation. Kirwan, though copious and eloquent in public addresses, was meagre and dull in collo- quial discourses. Virgil was heavy in conversation. La Fontaine appeared heavy, coarse and stupid he could not speak and describe what he had just seen but then he was the model of poetry. Chaucer's silence was more agreeable than his conversation. Dry den's conversation was slow and dull his humor saturnine and reserved. Cor nellie in conversation was so insipid that he never failed in wearying; he did not even speak correctly that language of which he was such master. Ben Jon- son used to sit silent in company and sip his wine. Southey was stiff, sedate, and wrapped up in asceticism. Addison was good company with his intimate friends, but in mixed company he preserved his dignity by a stiff and reserved silence Fox in conversation never Tagged, his animation and variety were inexh au stible. Dr. Bentley was loquacious, as was also Grotius. Goldsmith wrote like an an- gel, and talked like poor poll" Burke was entertaining, enthusiastic, and inter- esting in convers alton. Curran was convivial deity. Leigh Hunt was "like pleasant stream in conversation. -
 Southey apostrophized pigs, bears and especially spiders, declining to roast them with 3 damned delight" lest some day, somewhere, he, the poet, should be similarly served. Goethe also addresses spider in the famous line:
 Thy bowels thou dost spin,
 spin my brains.''
 A spiders example saved Scotland to Bruce; geese saved imperial Rome; Ca- ligula shod his horse with gold, and in- vested him with vice-consular honors. But when we come to horses, they have been loved and praised next to dogs and women.
 Everett tells charming story of Ed mund Burke, whom the gosslps said had gone crazy, and went about his park kissing his COWS and horses. In truth favorite horse of his dead sons seeing him in the park at Beacons- field, came to him and laid his head upon his breast, and looked into his face as if to say, "i have lost hin, too." Burke, overcome with his memo ries, clasped the neck of the loving crea- ture and kissed him. Bayard Taylor loved all dumb creatures, and says: C, always treated animals with great re- spect. l always said to myself how should like to be treated by man if 1 were dumb creature The key to their language is lost and it seems to me the higher intelligence should open the way to better understanding" Taylor knew hippopotamus and tame lioness who understood Arabic. Hamilton in an amusing paper has shown how favorably animals compare with humans in the conduct of their affairs. The bees, for example, have never begrudged the maintenance of their queen, the ants have never disputed succession of their king, and the dogs worthy of friendly re- lations have never organized "canine unions" against their masters. One of Miss Browning's most exquisite poems is addressed to her dog Flush, and Miss Sanborn reads it with incompatible pathos. Miss Milford, with all lovely woman's necessity for loving something, adored her dog Mossie. whom she de clared had brow like Mir. Fox, was ten- der and thoughtful beyond comparison and sagacious beyond description. He was buried with funeral honors, and Miss Milford undoubtedly believed him enskied and sainted, as she addressed him as dear saint" and sweet angel"
 Irving lived and died bachelor. His retreat, which looked so modestly over the banks of the Hudson, was presided