The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-07-22
Tia wordsworths and Nary Howitt.

Toward the end of March, 1881, vii.
Lam and were surprised one morning
BY call from the poet Wordsworth,
looking unhappy and dismayed. He
explained that he, with wife, daughter,
and a grandchild journeying home from
London, had arrived in Nottingham the
preceding night Mrs. Wordsworth,
however. was taken so i'll that it was
: impossible for them to go on. They
knew no one in the town exceDt US by
name. Would we a, least befriend them
50 far as to direct him to medical
manf But long before we had learned
she particulars of this sad story, which
ne seemed almost too perturbed to tell,
<Te had assured him of every help on
cur part The invalid was conveyed to
cur house, and Dr. Godfrey Hewitt
who was an intelligent young physician,
on being called in merely prescribed
rest and good attendance. Wordsworth,
perceiving that his wife could have both
with us. left her and Dora under our
roof and proceeded on his way with lit,
tie Rotha. Our guests remained with
us a fortnight Mrs Wordsworth was
agreeable and unprctending, while
Dora, swcc,, lively, intelligent, and en-
thusiastically attached to the church,
proved an especial acquisition to my
young and pleasing sister-mamma, also
staying with US, and whose devotional
temperament was secretly yearning for
q form of worship in which every faculty
might be permitted to assist the heart
when PROSTATE before its Maker; more
especially since she made the discovery
that the doctrines of the Establishment
-7ere essentially right, the Book of Com
mon Prayer needlessly neglected by dis
senters. Williams brother Emanuel,
living at Farnsfield, lent US his phaeton,
SO that Mrs. Wordsworth, when suffi-
cientiy recovered. could take daily
airing. and I think he himself must
often have driven them about the pleas
ant neighborhood with its Sherwood
traditions, since they retained for him
warm regard, and that not alone they
declared because he was an "anti-repo-
lutionist" 1t was, it must be remem-
bered, time of general election and
the approach of the passing of the re
form bill. Politics was the al1-absorb-
ing theme, Is the nation watched with
intense interest the proceedings of king,
lords, and commons. 8Ir Wordsworth
could think, write, and talk on other
subjects than the coming Revolution,
the Deform," as he termed it His wife
and daughter ON their return found him
complaining that '.he was as well in
body as sorrow and heaviness for the
condition of his country would allow
him to be-" A visit to Keswick did rot
revive him, for Southey's buoyant, cheer
ful spirit had likewise sunk under the
he felt must arise from the i'm
;inent revolution. These two great |
poets and Christian philosophers dread !
ing democracy also believed that if En-
gland had no established religion she |
soon would have none at all. My hus-
band, brought up in another school of |
thought. felt it nesdful to arraign the
proceedings of law-upheld church. l
sided with him. 1t was natural, there
fore, that Wordsworth should regard US
Us well-intentioncd, but very ..tumult-
uous young people" This difference of
opinion did not, however, interfere with
our friendship.-Nary Ro,0iH, in Good
II oSrGS.