Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-06
THEY DisLIKED AMERICANS.
Famous Foreign Authors Who Rallied
 Against Us.

Famous Foreign Authors Who Rallied
 Against Us.
 As is usual with the literary men of England, or at least it was so while the yer .rable poet was still in the prime of lifo, Tennyson cherished very fervent dislike of Americans, due no doubt to the iniquitous and dishonest lack of international copyright law in the United States, says Lucy Hooper. One cannot blame the author who has seen his best works disseminated far and wide through land that boasts of larger proportion of readers than any other, without receiving any compensa- tion for the works aforesaid. They one and all abominate us, and have always done so
 Macaulay loathed us. Thackeray with difficulty restrained his caustic pen from writing bitter diatribes against us Dickens said pretty things about us in print and in public, but left on record in his letters how cordially he detested America and the Americans and how distressed he was at the fail ] ure of his hopes of seeing our nation go to wrack and ruin. Alexander Dumas will never forgive us for the thousands of which he has been defrauded by the impossibility of securing any royalties on La Dame aux Camellias," for its countless representations in our land. Only the greatest of them all, Victor Hugo, seemed to find in the extension of his fame amongst an alien people | speaking different language from his own, full compensation for his pecu- | niary losses brought about by our lack of an international copyright law. And ' the travelling American who came to deposit at his feet a homage more or less sincere always met with a courte- l ous reception.
 It is recorded of Carlyle that trans 1 Atlantic admirer once ventured to ring | at the door of the house in Chelsea and | Carlyle himself came to respond to the | call. Utterly taken aback by the unex- | pected apparition of his idol, the caller ! stammered forth in confusion: 'Is-is | MT. Carlyle at homer" ''No!' thun- dered the sage as he slammed the door in the would-be intruder's face. Some, thing of the kind took place with ar
 American lady, the daughter of dis tinguished statesman and the wife of a l New England millionaire, one of the | war governors of the secession conflict
 in regard to Tennyson. She was travel
 ing in England just after the close o1
 the civil war, and chanced to visit the
 part of England in which Tennyson was
 then residing.
 l She wrote him a very courteous note
 asking permission to call to see him
 but she failed to set forth in full hel
 claim to distinction as the daughter O. ! one noted American and the wife of an
 other. Sho received from the poet [
 reply couched in terms of repellant in
 science, setting forth his dislike to wis
 itors and his especial detestation of the
 United States and all it's citizens. Aftel
 this letter had been forwarded to it
 destination, he accidentally learned wh'
 and what the lady in question reall.
 was Forthwith he wrote to her a sec
 ond time, expressing his regret at no
 having sooner become acquainted witl
 the fact that she was the daughter o
 one celebrated American and the wife O
 another, and asking her to fix hersel
 the day and the hour at which she would
 come and see him. The answer that h.
 received was at once spirited and digni
 fled. 'If was not to be admitted t.
 your presence" wrote our country
 woman, simply as an American lad.
 and a sincere admirer of your genius,
 prefer not to come at all" And sh
 staid away.-Chicago Tribune.