The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-09-10
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once a Week with some Of the No
liabilities.
Charles Read wrote this about Euer
Terry: "she is an enigma. Her eyes ara
pale. her nose rather long, her mouth
nothing particular. her complexion a de-
ucate brick dust. her hair rather like
tow, yet. somehow, she is beautiful. Her
expire sion kills any pretty face YOU see
beside her. Her figure 81 lean and bony.
her hands Waecufra .n siT- 7rd fcrIl.
Set she Us pattern Of fawn-l Ike grace.
Whether I'm movement or repOse, grace
porvades the hussy. In character i'm
puislye, Intelligent weak. hyItericai-
10 short al that IS abominable and
charming I'm woman. ellen Terry IS q
very charming actress. I see through and
through fer. Yet she pleases me all the
same
A recent issue Of o popular magazine
contains an article on Edward Everett
Hale" in which that gentleman sets the
public straight as % the poem which
Ralph Waldo Emerson committed 10
memory on one OF his ocean trips and
states that 80 was not "Alaric" but Mil
toms "Lycidas'. Says he-"I have q
letter of Emerson's you can take copy
of Sc if you Ike which cleared up
an auecd0te ta- Was told Of him al
the time. il was said that on one Of his
ocean trips he committed "Alaric' or
some other long poem 20 memory, IN
order 10 while away a few otherwise
Improbable days. IL proved 20 be 'Ly-
cldas" and I never heard Of anyone else
who has committed "Lycidas" 20 memo
~ on an ocean trip for pastime. Who
else but Emerson would have thought OF
it?'
Concord Jan. &c.
Ny Dear Hale:
I know by much experience OF my
own what IL Is 20 have Everett on the
brain. and you. who have IL in the blood,
may easily believe that II could only be
"Aiarlc" that I was grooming at sea. But
IL was not that, but Miiton's "Lycidas',
which told you OF IN lecture on memo
W, to which 1 think you must refer
though nothing OF IT was ever printed
or reported that / know. and Il must
have been read q. e.. the lecture) when
YOU were very young. l ought 70 De prOuu
that the anecdote could reach you. but
the mystery Of The memory Interested
me very much. I wrote you yesterday
about Surllng's pamphlet. which l hope
will come speedily TO you / do not rechn
the title. but Il was perhaps, Remarks
on Mr.. Huxlcys Protoplasm.' Yours
r. ". EMERSON.
The same article quotes Hall rs fol-
lows. "That is Thomas Arnads portrait
father Of Matthew, said Or. hali, point
ing from his sofa and then setting PACK
into "reminiscences" LOngfelloV over
there. and Dean stanley 1 liked stan
lev. and / think Stanley liked me. We
wer. ON very corda! terms. lie sat at
the desk where you are, and / gave him
Cladstone's article On America, published
that fau. There was a carrige az the door.
WAS 10 show him some historical
,1acee II was October and cold. l told
The how 10 bring some rugs. They came
10 the carriage with lot or Arab shaWis.
Stanley had Just come from the desert,
and with marvellous deXterity he wound
a shat about him, 30 that ne looked Ike
an Arab sheik I got little frightened
at the oriental look OF H. ana sald' On
we shall be I'm all the newspapers. WIN
reluctance he consented TO throw q cape
over his shoulders instead. But | always
regretted that / did not allow him 70 go
through the streets as an Arab dean.
When babe him goodbye that night, he
said with his w0nted thOughtfu.ness
II 1T me pay for this carriage; you would
never have had It II St hadn't been for
me" NO" said I. when I so 70 West
minister you shall pay for me- When
YOU are IN Boston ! shall pay for YOU
When we got out Of the carriage the hack
man took of his hat and said: III ne
carriage were mine, you shouldn't pay
a cent. Or. Stanley is a good and great
man. and I an proud to have carried
him. That's pretty good for Boston
hackman.
The Detroit "Tribune'is frivolous
enough 10 indulge in the following men,
ton of the poet laureate at the wedding
OF Prince May and Prince George
"Ruskin." remained her Majesty, Il
suppose YOU know my grandson has just
been married
yes. your Highness. rejoined the poet
laureate.
Are you mindful OF your sworn duty.
tho queer inquired. TO burst into song?'
your Highness. / am"
Whereupon Mr.. Ruskin took from his
pocket the following lines. which he read
with tine effects