The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-26
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Married Non Of Letters.

AoFTt0o Non Of Letters.
Some Of the names in our list [of
men of letters who were married. are
not those of authors who depended or
depend--for some are still living on their
writings for subsistence, but nearly all
depend on their writings for repu:a-
ton. As all of these men we're husbands
and most of them fathers, sucha list
may serve to show that husbands and
fathers need not despair of achieving
reputation ss authors, though, in litera-
ture as in pursuits, q man generally
secures some measure of success be-
fore he marries. This, however, is far
from being always the case. St.
Augustine was a father if not husband
before he was saint or author. The
married poets, it will be noticed,
are numerous. Few of the best are
missing. This is exactly as might
have been expected. The genuine poet
is above all things . lover. If some
eminent poets are missing from our
list it would be rash to accuse them of
insensibility to the fascination of the
fair. for by the missing name there
usually hangs sad tale of disappoiLt-
ed love. Cameo, for example, was
twice banished because of his passion
for one of the Queens ladies' at the
Court of Lisbon. and. although his love
was returned. the fates were so unkind
that she died before he could claim her.
The number of travellers, or rather
authors Of books of travel, is COM
paratively small, and this, again, is
exactly as might have been expected.
1t is not the husband and father who
affects the Satanic habit of walking up
and down and going to and fro upon
the earth. 1t would take volume to
notice all the interesting facts about
authors and their wives.
Here are few: of Tycho Brahe we
read that, ''being a great admirer of
the fair sex. he conceived 3 violent in
clinatiOn for Christina. q beautiful
country girl, the daughter of neigh
boring peasant, and alienated his FAM
lily till the King comm anded them to
be reconciled to him. TychO, who
chose her because she might be more
grateful and subservient than lady of
higher birth, never seems to have re-
pented, but ever found his Christina an
agreeable companion and an obedient
wife, Kepler. on the other hand.
found that ''the married state at first
created him great uneasiness from a
dispute which arose about his wife's
fortune.'' John Knox, in spite of his
''Blast of the Trumpet Against the
Monstrous Regiment of Women"
married two of them and had children
by both. Sir John Vaudeville ''relig-
iOusly declined an honorable alliance
to the Sultan of Egypt, whose daugh-
ter he might have espoused If he would
have abjured Christianity" Burton,
as far as we have been able to learn.
was never married. This again is as
we expected. The Anatomy of Mel
ancholy' is not the kind of book that
anybody but lonely bachelor would
think of writing. Young, author of
the might Thoughts, married a lady
with money. and so did DIR. johnson.
Cruden, the author of the concord
ancc," tried to do the same, and ad-
dressed numerous pamphlets to tho OBJ
ject of his choice, but she remained
obdurate in spite of these and other ex-
traordinary means of wooing.