The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-12-15

with snares; and, he adds, suppose the
case of man who has helpless depend
ents Ct this class upon himself sum-
mone6 to face some sudden failure Of
his resources-that he should lose the
power of exerting so delicate an organ
as the creative intellect, when dealing
with subjects 50 coy as those OF the
imagination what maddeninR
thought Is this to a man Of family who
has absolutely no resources except
what his pen may yield. DE Quincy
himself suffered this terrible anxiety :;
40 did Burns, upon whom, amongst all
the children of genius, the primeval
curse had fallen heaviest and sunk
most deeply.
The wife Oft literary man should
be either a plain minded woman, who
should occupy herself exclusively with
household matters, and shield her hus-
bands peace by taking those cares
upon herself, or else a woman capable
of entering into his literary life. Few
authors wives have been of the latter
kind. A notable instance, however, Is
afforded in the wife Of Alphonse Dau-
Diet. She Is an invaluable literary
assistant TO her husband She takes
his rough, corrected manuscript and
makes clear copy, correcting at the
same time any slight errors that may
have escaped her husbands notice
DAudet then takes the manuscript in
hand again for final revision and care
ful polishing. Nine. Daudet after
ward rewrites the whole manuscript
and sends ii to the press.
Bulwer, in the glow of youth. fell
in love with a pretty face. and made
what he supposed love match He
soon found that loves young dream
was a hideous reality-that his hopes
of married life had turned like Dead sea
fruit. to ashes. The pretty bride be-
came the domestic fury. A SEPARATION
soon followed, but she never ceased to
be painful feature in his life.
Dickens domestic troubles have
never been satisfactorily explained.
but he said 1t was case of incompati-
bility of temper. l think IL was a
case of egregious personal vanity on
the part of Charles Dickens. The
amazing success of his works raised
him far above his original social posi-
ton; he became the friend of Lady
Blessington, Walter Savage, Landor,
Tennyson. Bulwer and others. whose
refined and cultivated society made
him seek happiness abroad rather than
at home. His genius made him peer
of the highest in the land. but his wife
remained the same plain person who
had shared and solaced his early pow
erty and obscurity. lie became q So
cial lion. whom princes and mobiles de-
lighted to honor her duties, as the
mother of nine children. kept her at
home. and she was thus prevented
from cultivating the graces and ac-
quiring the manners which would
have fitted her for the aristocratic So
ciety in which her husband found
both his taste and his vanity gratified.
Lite has been said to be comedy to
those who think and a tragedy to
those who feel surely then Byron's
life was a profound tragedy. for of all
the sons of man few have felt more
deeply than the author of Manfred"
His noble brow was often darkened by
q scowl, his classic mouth was often
disfgured by q sneer, but his heart
was never dead to affection. He never
turned with cold indifference from
sorrow and suffering, whether that of
a nation or that Of an individual. In
an unfortunate moment he married
woman whose cold heart never re-
sponded to his love, and whose mathe-
NAUTICAL mind could not appreciate his