New-York tribune., 1892-12-04

At the same time having to warn him of meta
physics as Thornton Hunt warned nlyselI VIII
! toid him | was reading in that qlas-scehc apou'
| the time ! first visited his fai -, ;a,.
Netrlcship's specially really wlid ahlmais i'
| ID c. H. gave him commission, paying nm
wcll beforehand: but the way in which he per
| formed il was IA extraordinary as the drawings
| of the Creator. which ! shrewdly gu'nTHrq "eie
inspired by the anthropomorphism oi Ihahri "a
year and half after the commission TaS t, snJth ritI
| a child of the "Marchioness species icIt WIN
Mr.. Ncttcship's compliments roll OF dirty paper %
| cut into by the string that tied IL ana oog-
cared at the corners-a disreputable roll II ap-
| pcarcd, for / was present "ien az iiapP.i -, !.
arrive This being undcne disc Gr"a hou, 20 rcm enor.
rude water-color of two lions lashlng ABOUT choi
nous tails and erinning at each other az u ',.2
we're laughing presumably at d o. X VINO hao
commissioned the drawing
The following is good story OF iioi'i'''
Hunts picture The Scapcgoat
Tho ACCOMPLISHMENT Of his first eastern Journey
was AGAIN the cause of Jcbt, and when he brought
back the scapeeoat" an eminent pictnr,ueai,n :,
would not look at it, You have no bushes business 70
never never heard Of him; is he a Syrian creature
What will the public care for oc,pr5oa,
Hunt explained that every one in Great bri,an nI
tyne of Chris. kind of sacrifice Of atonemeht
and that if Mr. = had read the Bible he would
have known that, too. Bible bipie VEL Mcn
will call them in and We will see u M tncv vncn KTm
| ANYTHING about this Seapegoat. lhc conciu,
sion of the interview was very aunsln@N T ulu
bv Hunt The ladies not sure mat 'ntt!
had heard about the ScaprgOat but AT Ilsl tnc
picture was bought for a moderate sum, ana We We
publication succeeded IN a way, but hol 10 gf'a'S
AS The Lignt Of the World, which Gan'fTt III
a court of Justice declared had yielded nm
thousand pounds year for 3 series OF years
There are sornc curious particulars about tle
frs, introduction TO England OF the poems o
Walt Whitman. which poems Scott, Rosetti and
few men instantly took up and were Impressed
hy. A cork-cutter named Dixon told him Tue
story. which is strange enough to reproduce:
| will tell you willingly lhc, says ABOUT @ @,nc
first comics of the Leaves OF Grass, when are
still dear TO me from the ASSOCIATION OF tiie iiau
who brought them here, and because l. al "ds'
knew by whom Walt Whitman would be- be- valued d
There is a plan of dealing in hooks caller mann
selling which is selling by kind OF auctl III, @ tIe
dealers who adopt tins. plan rot being mwluiE t
oualiticd auctiCnecrs. The value upset pllcP' vi
- hool, is gradually reduced till somebody takes
IT, Say il starts at tive shings, then IL Is re-
,nced less ard less. till IL comes to a shlIln3 VI
sixpctce man came mere az that IiIie u !'',Tn ,h
il must have bcen about the beginning OF Tue
ycar $50, James Grindrol ny namr, l3HoA
tns trade with stock Of books that had iniSS'd
their market. or had never been ilghrN t,mernon
al all Long after thi,-long after the American
war Was lnishcd-he came back again I" 'un'''
land and recommended the booksellng IRA III t'.e
old way but his wife from whom he hau s'pa pa
rateJ though he had left her in a comfortable
way Of business being still here, mad" MN H1?H
leave the town again. ! was very sorry l'i tnlr'
hrcaua. lie used Il brlng 5lcn lolS ol NO'''' luz
curious books-books you don't in "a regular My My
see Since then we have never had IA man IKE
him in this trade. lie used to come ana % YAK,
tea with me on the SUNDAY afternoons, ana 'i!Ph
7 found out he had been in the thick OF ti'
American Civil War as well as Whitman iI''
did not care TO speak Of his war experiences onlE
nv sympathy used to draw him ont, t0f IonS'N
TO hear how they had pulled through. IL" ha
Joined one If the States regiments, ana Wds hloni
part Of the time in the array led ny ""h'Ia'
sherman lie was with Sherman IN ali tic i''ai-
f,I raid he
food and was many times compelled to eat Amos,
anything. however )athsomc, they conIn nl!
during arduOu, marches in the wasted country !;
he saw many men drop down ana az" Tor "ahl "l
food But when we did reach the dep2s where
food WIS were all 'aE"n very 2o"u ri'' vi
and nursed: hut ! c,cr in all my HE "Npericn'ru
any trial like that want Of food during tE'sr
raids J." IIc was with sherman at the taxing "i
Atlanta aud :hcn lie cot his discharge with others
Of the men who had done the same hard service
He wculd not remain in SundcrIand thoug.
he could sell his books. lie travelled about; went
into Lancashire, and there he met his death m
railway collision in tunnel . year or tW) AMER
ward SO YOU now have the history Of the book
Tho autobiography is ntcrspersel with snntches
Of verse tie merit OF which is sometimes our"
marked. while others below par-con'id'r'd
a. poetry. Scott wrote and published some neat
verses during his life. He had happy knack that
WAY. But ,udeing FROM. the evidence Of thcsr
volumes he possessed little il any huiror, notwitl
standing his habitua chccrfulncss. lie appears
to have Icon happy and an agreeable man. bn'
the droilcric, Of lie passed him by and this -
Ecst shown in his attempts 10 make nonsense
verses. which attempt he naivcly records. though
in truth they arc anything but funny.
WillI2m Pcl scot lived until 1890, when u"
ras.cd away in good old age. having enjoyed
his tul share Of reputation, friendship and inno-
cent pleasure he lId much and good work III
his profession and Ike nearly all old men toward
the lat he ceased u be- in tune with the rl-ing
generation. whose Y.gdries he could no LONGER
understand. The lin de- steele Englishman was
= pnzzlc TO the venerable artist, though that need
not ostonisll Us for who j. there that understands
the creature? Thcsr volumes 1rc written agree
ably and abound in wcli-dcfcnd"d views upoa art
nucstiors The author has freed his mind in
manly fashion throughout and his record Is
Lighly interesting There are several capital bit-
Of c,chinc in the work. which enhance its value
and it is hanGsonly printed with large, clear
type upon thick, white paper.