Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-04
Salt gake 9emutrat.
tuesday. AUGUST 4. 1885
TUESDAY,
JULIAN HAWTHORNE.
Famous Men and Women which
He Met While Abroad.

Yes, have met many famous men
and women while abroad" said Mr..
Julian Hawthorne, the novelist, to a
Washington Post reporter. Carlisle l
never saw. He was very old, and living
at Chelsea life of strict seclusion. l did
not care to disturb the old gentleman by
going to stare at him simply because he
was famous. [ saw George Eliot quite a
number of times, but it was not possible
to get upon very satisfactory terms with
her. There were a few who en-
joyed her intimate friendship, but the vast
number, even the most fortunate could
get no nearer than her receptions brought
them, and then they were fain to be con-
tent with sitting silently while their host
ess, from the unapproachable throne of
her greatness, delivered brilliant mono
logues in the manner of Coleridge and
Carlyle. With Browning / was upon
terms of most delightful nature. That
powerful poet is also an accomplished
man of the world. But in his appearance
you would never discover either the poet
or the social genius. Tennyson never
never casts aside the robe and chaplet of
the poet. Wherever and whenever he
appears the image and superscription of
the bard is written upon him. knew Rus
kin well-the great fiery-hearted man. An
thony Trollope, was one of the men OF let
tiers whom knew best. was admitted to a
most intimate acquaintance with the nov
elist Blackmore. Among the younger
literary men none is more remarkable
than Edmund Gosse. When the COM
parative disadvantages of his early life
are considered in connection with the
amount OF rare work he has already
accomplished at thirty-five years of age,
he must surely be pronounced genius
Andrew Lang is another rising man,
whose talent, however, runs more to
scholarship than literature
Did you see much of artists?'
My associations were chiefly with
them, for once l thought | would be an
artist myself. My father always told me
never to be writer. / knew Millais,
who stands at the head OF contemporary
English art Sir Frederick Leighton, the
president of the Royal Academy; Alma
Tadema, the great Dutchman, English by
marriage and adoption, and Watts, who,
in the highest and rarest qualities of i'm !
agination, has never excelled IN art
"Did you meet Hugo or Turgenieff on
the Continent?'
"No; Victor Hugo was like Carlyle, !
aged and inaccessible. had made once
an engagement to spend an evening with |
but, unfortunately, something
occurred to defeat it, to my lasting regret, /
for [ never had another opportunity to
meet him."
Are there any manuscripts of your
fathers which have not been published?''
eyes, there remains one. 1t seems
that in the later years of my fathers life
he brooded deeply on the subject of i'm
The posthumously-published
iDolliver Romance was his first attempt
to embody his thoughts upon that theme
The studies for DR. Grimshawe's Secret
which recently edited, show his mind
still graphing with it in another phase.
The unpublished manuscript is still a
bird endeavor to complete the express
sion of his mind upon the great topic"
''Will it be published"
Mr.. Hawthorn shook his head and
smiled. ~ doubted" said he" the pro-
oriety OF publishing. Dr. Grimshaw and
[, at least, shall not undertake TO give
he world another Of my fathers mcom
Dleted works.