Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-09
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Ebert Hubbard Gives His
Opinion Of Swift.
A NEW LITTLE JOURNEY"
carts About F. Hopkinson Smith
and His Work.
AN OPINION OF THE OLD BOOKS.
~. uooIsworm Thinks Them Bet-
Ter Than Anything Published
Nowadays.
4 NEW LITTLE JOURNEY"
an OPINION OF THE OLD BOOKS.

are better written anu more INTEREST
~ Astounding in fine thoughts and
elegant diction. 1t is often asked what
~ the names of some of these old
tonnes that are SO much talked about.
some will say that everything pup
Hshed during the age of Charles ana
r,Izabeth is good. This is broad as
,srtion. of course. yet there was so
mueh written that was great
surinr those times that the
average reader is not inclined
IA and fault with the dictum. / picked
m a rare old tome the other day. that
I find mas passed through as many as
MAE editions since 1928, yet the work Is
not in the catalogue of any one OF the
No libraries or is offered by any of the |
lsadng dealers in old and rare books. |
The book bears the curious title of
interchangeable: or, n Piece of |
me World Discovered; in Essayes and |
Characters. Newly composed for the
sothern parts of this Kingdome. Al
London. Printed by w. ). Tor Ed.
Rlount, 1925" find that the book was
rritten by Bishop John Earle. who was
chaplain TO Charles IL. during his exile.
4 few samples of the good bishops
little tome will interest all lovers or
"a child is a man in a small letter,
get the best copy of Adam before he
hsted Of Eve or the apple; and he is
happy whose small practice in the
Eorid can only write his character,
re Is natures fresh picture, newly
Drawn In oil. which time and much
| handling dlms and defaces. HIS soul
vet white paper, unscrlbbled with
| reservations of the world. .wherewith,
! At length, 1t becomes "a blurred note
4 book. He is purely happy because he
4 knows no evil. nor hath made means
by sin to be acquainted with misery.
4 He arrives not at the mischief of being
1 wise nor endures evils to come by fore
seeing them. He kisses and loves all,
and when the hurt of the rod Is past
i imes on his beater. Nature and his
parents alike dandle him and entice him
On with bait of sugar to II draught
Of norwood. He plays yet like a
young prentice the first day, and is not
tome to his task melancholy. (All the
language he speaks yet is tears, and
they serve him well enough to express
bis necessity) His hardest labor is his
ongue, as If he We're loath TO use so
ieceltful an organ; and he is best COM
psny with II when can but prattle.
We laugh at his foolish sports, but his
game Is our earnest; and his drums.
fattes and hobby-horses but the ems
tltuls ana nuckltlk Oh man . DuSlIltSSs
His father has writ him as his own
little story, wherein he reads those
lays Of his life that he cannot remem-
Der, and signs to see what innocence
be hath outllved. The older he grows
be Isl stair lower from God; and. like
bis first father, much worse In his
bfeeches He IL the Christians exam
PIE and the old mans relapse the one
initiates his pureness and the other
falls into his simplicity, Could he put
on his body with his little coat, he had
got eternity without a burden and eN-
changed but one heaven for another"
Here is the bishops picture of an
sniQuary: AN antiquary is man
strangely thrifty OF time past, and an
enemy indeed to his NAV. whence he
r. letches out many things when they are
II now all rotten and sinking. He Is one
IL hat hath that unnatural disease to be
snamored Of old age and wrinkles, and
loves all things las Dutchmen do
:heesel. the better for being worldly
md worm eaten. He is OF our religion.
because we say 1t Is most ancient; and
II ~ a broken statue would almost make
nm an idolater. A great admirer he
Of the rust of old monuments, anu
ltads only those characters where time
|. has eaten out the letters. He Will go
you forty miles to see n saints well or
ruined abbey; and there be but n
!; ross or stone footstoole in the way,
hell be considering it SO long till he
/ leEgets his journey. His estate con-
I uss much in shekels and Roman coins.
and he has more pictures of Caesar
nan James and Elizabeth. Beggars
\ S1en. him with rusty things which
y ,sey have raked from dunghills, and
7 Relics.
! He loves no library, but where there
n more spiders volumes than au-
! nefs and looks with great admiration
Z me antique works of cobwebs
J Printed books he conterins as a nov
wv OF this latter age, but manu-
Ntpt he pores on everlastlngly, eH'
esielly II the covers be all moth-eaten
~ me dust makes a parenthesis be
Mneen every syllable. He would give
~ the books in his study (Which arr
sNailIues, AIN for one of the old Roman
4 snoings, or six lines of Tully in hit
Z wn,hand. His chamber is hung com
mny with wild beasts skins and II
\ nnd OF charnel house of bones extra
gianary; and his discourse upon them
X ~ ou VIII hear him. shall last longer
IN. very attire is that which is tn,
,ns1 out or fashion (and you ma!
EsA criticism out of his breeches)
= i never looks upon himself until h
s.ney-haired, and then he is pleased
y ~ ~ , nls own antiquity. His grave doe
4 iflshten him. for he has been uset
1. h.,,epulehres, and he likes death tn
u hms ss because 1t gathers him TO hi
unS'shop Earle's character OF
sry9heeited man is brisk. "a self
,f silea man Is one that knows him
= Nr.s, Wen that he does not knoy
enasu' Two excellent well-dones hav
~, MIN and he Is guilty Of 1t tina
rvommended him to madness. II
~" oeeome his own book, which Il
+. on continually. yet like trunn
. ,tryss sAlps over the harsh places an
IN ,hSs only that which Is pleasant
n t,r,s speculation of his own goo
u IN MS eyes, like Il drunkard's, Sc
n,,.sopie. and his fancy, like an oil
speetacles, makes q great lettc
IS q IA. ,nlall print. He lmaglnes ever
y ia where he comes is his theatr,
h,o,n ~, look stirring but his spec
. n Y " nu concelyes mems thoughts I
y Il, IDLE, that Is. (only) busy nbou
" NJ MS walk Is still in the fashIo
~ n ~ march, and like his opinion. III
~ panled, with his ewes most fixe
,f hla own person. or an other
hse s,rnseuon y himself. II we hay
10 q fauss ehing that has passed with al
nj c,e Is always reacting II alon
n tu,e H. sits the ecstacy his hearei
~ han =, every period, His dlRcours
~ fA ,hyslQns and definltive decree
"a hus X must be and thus 1t 1
a. nm. VIII not humble his authorit
W MI ~ His tenet is always sill
u IA ~ ai9ot from the vulgar as
III sf.-f t,n WEich you must not hope
IL sfsn ~. lie Is an, excellent humi