The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-01
IN 4 POETS HOME.
Friends and Acquaintance of the
Late Martin Upper.
HIS PReVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY
the Motive His Admiration for VIII
liam L. Gladstone.

Examiner Dispatch-Special to THE HERALD
LONDON, Nov. 80, 1SS9.-[By cable to the
New York Herald Martin Fdrguar Tup-
per died yesterday Afternoon at the age of
79. Not long ago | saw him, a gentle, silver
haired, beautiful old man who greeted me
warmly in his pretty little house beneath
the shadow of the great glass Of the palace
of Sydenham. Upon the wall and jus. op-
posite US there hung splendid portrait of
Martin and his brother as two handsome
boys, and in a corner of the room was q
curious looking walking stick which some
admirers of the old poet had sent him from
Lake Upper, piece of water buried within
the Adirondack mountains, which takes it's
name from one of the poets ancestors who
was one of the old Pilgrim fathers. Talk
ing of mis- early days he said: 81 was boy
at school with Thackeray, who used to call
the Charterhouse school the slaughter
house, because of the dreadful Tyranny of
the head master; John Loeb was at the
same school at the same time and Arthur
Helps. and later was at private tutors
with Harold Browne, the present bishop of
Rochester, and he and used to sit together
in church and listen to the eloquence of
Hugh ONeil near Guildford. At Christ
Church | was fellow student with Glad
stone, always the foremost man, and never
mind how | differ from him now, still
look upon him with love and af-
lection as warm hearted earn
est, Woodworking and religious man.
Even in those days he was easily primus
inter pdres. A number of Elton and Christ
Church choice spirits formed themselves
into a small social club which they styled
lin compliment TO their founders initials)
wv. E. G." Lord Elgin was there and
Canning and Scott and LIddell and Corne
wall Lewis, and l well remember my He
brew lectures with Pusey, who was after
wards to become famous as well. But come,
my friend, you surely don't want me to
wade through all my life; let US cut this
short"
TELL me why you wroteyour 'Proverbial
Philosophy"
''Ah! Now we come to business. Well, in
1928 l was very much in love with my
cousin Isabelle, who was afterward to be-
CONE my wife, and so 1 thought
the holy estate of matrimony. A
letter was too light, formal essay too
heavy. A happy thought struck me. 4
will convey them in the manner of Solo
mons proverbs 1 said, and will do so in
articles at first on marriage, then on love,
then on friendship, and fourthly on educa-
ton Hugh O'Niell warmly praised them
N. P. Willis, the famous American poet
finding copy which had been beautifully
printed by Rickerby of Abschurch lane,
fancied the book was that of some forgotten
author of the Elizabethan era and quoted
it week after week in periodical of his,
the Home Journal, and years afterward
when he met the author he was scared to
find healthy, rudy young man in one
who, he thought had be en- dead 80 years"
II want something about your American
tour"
II remember Daniel Webster in 1851 A
colossal unhappy feeling proved dark an
gel looking for good man with depth
for good and evil in his eye unfathomable,
And l called on Barnum. Yes, the same
Barhum who is astonishing US all today,
al he gave me two tickets for Jenny
Lind's concert and after the concert he in
troduced me to her, and she told me in her
pretty broken English what comfort my
poor DIT ar Pr owe rbial Philosophy had been
10 her. DR.. Tamage was very kind and
liberal host in 1876 and it was at his
house that met William Cullen Bryant,
Hosea .Bidelow and General
Grant. They were all so kind and good.
1 was amazed on my learning on my tour
in America when l said to my agent one
day:
Shall send them my piece upon Wash
ington:' and he replied, oh no; any
thing else of yours that you like, but Wash
4uSG OH 10 qulIS play GU OuI ESI uOW we arc
sick of him.
Ibid you find lecturing good specula-
ton, MIR. Upper gu
Eyes, very fairly so. In Scotland used
to meet the most splendid and enthusiastic
audiences. The clergy were not always
great friends of mine from lecturing
point of view. One at Salisbury told me
that the popular dearly beloved brethren
spoiled him for eloquence and he did not
C ire to hear mine, but Non onformist
ministers are far more congenial."
Now tell me something about friends
and acquain tances, people on have known
in so long a life"
''As l must pull myself together, 1
will Just take them haphazard: l
have met Mrs. Beecher S.owe, who
was very ta"'t nm; Oulda, Oecar
Wilde, poor Fred Burnal V, Rogers,
the poet, whom L once met i'll nis arLlstic
house in ST. James place; Carlyle, who
warmly babe God bless me; Spurgeon, who
wrote me encouraging me to 20 on shifting
the Philistines with shaven crowns; Ten
nyson, whom l visited at Farringford;
Browning and Mortimer Collins; Dickers
l met several times and he was always
dear friend; Prof. Owen, Matthew Arnold,
Kingsley; Thomas Cooper, the Chartist
poet; dear old man George Macdonald and
several of the specialists. l have met the
Prince COnsOrt, ever gracious and kindls;
he introduced me to the Prince of Wales
when the latter was quite a boy, and only
three years ago, at my last levee, where
Lord Houghton, the poet, and 1 were the
only ones in old fashioned court costume,
the Prince introduced me to his eldest