New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-21
CHARLES LAMB ON TURBOT.
FROM A LETTER JUST PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST
TIME

TIME.
W. Carew IIazlitt prints in "The Strand Maya
zine and for the first time, the following letter pur-
porting 10 be written by Charles Lamb. Mr.. Hazlitt
gives no details concerning the discovery OF the letter.
With regard to q John Dory which you desire
particularly to be informed about honor the hsl'
but il is rather account OF Quin who pair )ized IT,
and whose taste (of dead mani had as heve go ny
as anybody's Apcius and lieltogabals e1cepeG-this
latter started nghtIngalcs tongues ana peacocAS DrS
Else in itself and trusting to my own poo SinSs
Judgment IL hath not That moist mellcw oleaSinous
gliding smooth descent nom the tongue to the palate
nence to the stomach &C. mat your fsnSy and
familiar flavor OF any that swns-nost genial and mt
Nor has /, on the other hand that fine failing of
nalliness that oleaGnous peeing of as II were Ike
a sea onlon), which endears your Gods head ID. %
bined with sort Of womanish comlngin pieces which
the same Gods head d shoulders hath where ,iie
but each Individual fake presents pleasing resist
ance to the opposed tooth-yoa understand me-these
but it has third flavor of It's own, perfectly distinct
from Cod nrbot which IT must t be 9wnea may
but to my unpracused tooth it presentod rather
u crude river-iish-favor, IKE your PIKE or
Carp a %nd Re Corrected like by some Soqus
well chosen sauce Stll always suspect'a fsh
which requires so much Of artificial eed NOT tbe
foreign aid OF ornament but one when unadorned tth
Is with nothing but anrs e pan he However
Shall 20 10 Brighton again next summer and shall
have an opportunity OF correcting my ludgmehtt, II
when Nature pleased to make the John Dory SO
notorousIy deficient In outward gaces las 70 be sure
swlms except perhaps the sea safyr which l never
saw but which they say Is terribe), when she formed
him with 80 few external advantages, she might have
bestowed n more elaborate finish In his parts Internal
a have given him a relish, sapor, to recommend
him. as she made Pope Poet to make up for making
him crooked.
saving things which are not true to shew your wit
II had wit but what must shew at the expenee
Sf my at Se Tea warehouse Depend upon It. nv
dear Chambers, that an ounce OF Integrity at our
death bed will stand In more avail than all the Wit
az CGngreve or . . For instance yOI tell me fine
story about Truss, and his playing at bennington
DERBY that he was whlpt through the Town on that
very day YOU say he appeared In some character or
other for robbing old woman at church of seal
IL won't do to scatter these untrue stories about
among people that know anything. Besides. your
shown in your choice Of dishes. We seem in that in
stance born under one star. like you for liking
hare. esteem. you for disrelishlng minced veal.
attachment 10 the fat unctuous juices Of deers flesh
& the green unspeakabe Of turtle: honour you
favorite which ventured 10 recommend To you rs a
substitute for hare, bullocks heart, and I am not
true son Of Epic,ras should reserve one taste pecn
liar 10 himself. For a long time ] kept the secret
about the exceeding delciousness OF the marrow Of
boiled knuckle OF veal TIL my tongue weakly ran riot
In It's praises. and now II Is prostitute COMMON
But have made one discovery which win not In
nS all my dmf n Is S SeSpss S b
enough 10 swectcn (or rather make savoury
, ,e hour of death It sci hGa SQUARE BIT about
OF fat can't cnll IL nor lean neither altogether
=. Is that beautiful COMPOUND which Nature must
IL. so IN the original. Query Rye one Of Lambs col.