The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-02
TEE PROYRRBIAL PHILOSOPHER.

The Doad Poet -Sehoolfollow ant
Friend Of Some Eminent Men,
london Dl'vaeh IN N Y, Herald
Martin Farquhar Topper died this al
ternoon at the age Of 70. Not long age
/ saw him, gentle, silyer-haired, beau
tiiul old man, who greeted one warmly
In his pretty little house beneath the
shade Of the great glass palace at syden,
ham. Upon the wall Just opposite Ut
there hung splendid portrait OF Martin
and his brother as two handsome boys,
and In the corner OF the room was 4
curious looking walking stick which
some admirers OF the old poet had semi
him from Lake Upper, a piece OF water
buried within, tho Adirondack Noun,
tAins, which takes its name from one oil
his ancestors who was one OF the old
pilgrim fathers,
Talkingof his early days he said: ~
was a boy OF school with Thackeray, who
used TO call the school (the Charterhouse)
the 'slaughterllouse, because OF the
dreadful tyranny OF the head master.
John LeeCh WAS at school at the same
time and Arthur Helps. Later on was
at private tutors with Harold Brown,
the present Bishop OF Rochester, and he
and | used to sit together in church and
listen 10 the eloquenCe Of Hugh 0'Neil,
who was Vicar OF Albury, near GuiIdford.
AT Christ Church | was a fellow.student
with Gladstone, always the foremost
man, and never mind how differ from
him now, | still look upon him with
love and affection Us a warm hearted,
earnest, hard working, aud religious
man. Even in those days no was easily
fr,t. A number OF Eton and Christ
Church choice spirits formed themselves
into small social club which they styled,
IN compliment to their founders initials,
W. Il. q. Lord Elgin was there, and
Canning, and Scott, and Liddell, and
Cornwall Lewis. | well remember my
Hebrew lectures with Pusey, who was
to become famous.
"But come, my friend, you surely
don't want me TO wade through all mi
life. Let US cut this short"
TELL mo why you wrote your Proven.
bal Philosophy"
"Ah, now we come 10 business. Well,
Ia 1928 | was much in love with my cou.
sin Isabelle, who was afterwards TO be.
come my vile, and so thought would
transcrlbe my notions on the holy
stats OF matrimony. The letter was too
light for a formal essay. A happy
struck NO: will convey them
IN the manner Of Solomon's proverbs,
and did 80 ia articles tlnt on marriage,
and then on love, then friendship, and
iourthly on education. Hugh O'Neil
warmly praised them.. N. P. Willis, the
amous American poet, finding copy
which had been beautifully printed BY
Kicker Of AChurch lane, iancied the
book was that OF some forgotten author
II the Elisebethan era, aud quoted II
week after week in periodical Of his
he Home JOurlal-and years after when
le net the author he was scared TO find
J heGlty, ruddy, young man In one
whom he thought had been dead 800 |
ears"
81 want something about your Amer.
can tour"
~ remember Daniel Webster in 1851, |
colossal unhappy, bCetle.browed, dark
ooking sort Of a mau, with a depth for
God and evil In his eye uniathomable.
Ind 1 called on Barnum; yes, the same
}arnum who is astonishing us all to-day.
1egave me two tickets for Jenny Lind's
onCert. Ho introduced me to her, and
h. told mo In her pretty, broken Eng.
ish what comfort my poor, dear Pro-
'erblal Philosophy had been to her.
Dr.. Talmage Wasa kind and liberal host
n 1870, and II Wss at bis home that |
net William Cullen Bryant, LonRiel.
ON, BigeloW, and General Grant. They
Nere all 10 kind and good. l was
on my featuring tour In Amer.
&c Nhen | said TO my agent one day
Shall read them my piece upon Wash.
InetonT aud he replied: No; any.
thing else OF yours that you like, but
Washington Is quite played out here
now. We are eick Of him."
Martin FaIquhar Upper descended
from an ancient Guernsey family. Born
IN London In 1910, lie wins educated al
lue OHhteFnOuse anu ~ Chfibt Oh ufCl,
Oxford, where he took the degrees Of B,
A., N. A., and D. o. L. He vas called
10 the bar butnsver ptacliced, aud wrote
Geraldine and Other POEMS" 1888;
"Ptoyerbial Philosophy, "lS99-44 ;"Mod.
ern Pyramid" 1889; IAN Authors
Mine" and "fhe Twins, q Tale" ls4l;
"CroCk Of Gold" 1874; "Haclenus: i
Budget Of Lyrics" 1913; Surrey: a
Rapid Review Of Its Principal Persons
and Places" 1S49; liking Altred's
Poems In English Meter, 1850; Farley
Heath: Record oil It's Remains" and
Hymn for All Nations, in Thirty Ian.
guages," 1851; Ballads for the Times
and Other POEMS" 1852; "Heart, a
Tale" 1858; probabilities: an Aid to
Faith, 1854; Lyrics" 1855; stephen
LuDgtOA or, the Days Of King John"
1858; Three Hundred Sonnets, |" 1890;
"Rldes and ReVeries Of Mr.. EsOp
Smith," 1891; "CitharS Lyrics" 1858;
and a variety Of fugitive pieces in prose
and verse,
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