New-York tribune., 1896-08-30

Joining II Is not the one which Is described IN
Westward Hor' for the old home OF the Carys
was burned down century agone: ana '"'
road to Hartand no longer leads over ,n'
border to the famous house OF Sir Kichar'
Granville for that teo. vanished long ago. ou'
the scenery is the same which Kingsley rePr"-
duced with the realism Of keen observation
The main road leads in one direction 10 tn'
Freshwater. where Sir Amyas disarmed ms
cousin. the treacherous dispatch bearer ana 'n
the other to Marsland Mouth. where the bea"-
tifuI Rose OF Torridge met the White Wnch
and eloped with the Spanish noble Notnine
escaped Kingsey's notice about clovelly ana
all the landmarks Black Church Rocks. Mouth
Mill and the ancient Roman dikes. are In his
story
II there was ops spot on the English coast
which Kingsley loved with almost passionate
intensity it was Cioveliy. with it's WOODED
combe and staircase road. Now that YOU have
seen the dear old paradise" he said TO his WE
you know what was the inspiration Of my IRE
before | met you" IL was not his birthplace
He born I'm the vicarasc of Hone. on tho
river Dart amid the wild scenery Of Dartmoor
Forest but his father removed from Devonshire
to Nottinghamshire when the child was SIX
weeks old, and subsequently settled in Barnack
among the eastern fens. 1t was nearly twelve
years before the family returned TO Devonshlre.
the master Of Clovelly Court having presented
to the vicar the living % the little church at
the top OF the fshermcn's glen Meanwhlle
the boy had learned to ride and 10 study natural
science. and had received early impressions or
scenes among the fens which were q inspire the
story Of "Hereward" 1t was however. North
Devon, with It's rocky gorges. verdant combes
Ii atfh
thusiasm which never left him. Dearly as he
loved Eversley. the iron-bolnd coast Of Bide-
ford Bay where Torrldge joins her sister
Taw." was for him the real home country.
This is the place" he wrote to his mother from
Clovey. THE wounded bird goes to the nest.
felt a renewing OF my youth the day after
got here"
KINGSLEY'S SOJOURN BRIEF.
SO intimately is the memory OF Charles Kings
ley associated with North Devon that one Is
surprised ir reading his biography to find how
brief were the intervals of his sojourn In the
country which was dear to his heart His father
was vicar OF Clovelly Church from 1880 10 1885
when he went TO Chelsea and during those six
years the boy at school. first at clifton.
near Bristol and afterward at Heston. on the
Cornwall coast During those six years he spent
his vacations at home. riding ponies. studying
shells and mosses. sailing with the mackerel
and herring fleets. and indulging taste for
open-ar life which was 10 make him the future
apostle Of muscular Christianity. After 1873
he a student Of Kings College. London.
and then a Cambridge undergraduate reading
for orders: and a. twenty-three he settled down
at Evcrsley for a long pastorate of thir;y-three
years With the exception OF a single year
passed In Bideford. when he writing West
ward Ho" and also n fraction ~ another year
when he was regainine his shattered health M
Ilfracombe and LynnNuth. his life In North
Devon was confined to his early vacations from
school and to short journeys made I'm quest ~
health when he was faded from parish work
and wearied unto death by the political and
religious strife Of those stormy times.
Whether his stay short or long he never
ceased to love North Devon He knew every
mile OF the coast from the Foreland 10 Hart
land Point. and he was in sympathy with the
glorious traditions OF "the little white town ot
which he embalmed in his wondrous
tale OF Elizabethan adventure written during
the Crimean War as he himself said Ito make
men fight" If il was the tragic pathos of the
fishing village Of Clovelly that found voice In
his mournful ballad the Three Fishers" so
also II was the racy virtue and unconquerable
spirit or early English Professionalism among
the sea rovers and mackere-catchers OF Dew
onshire that set his Imagination on fire and
inspired his noDlest work. Wherever the long
Atlantic fringe of surf curls at the bottom of
the wooded combes Of that rockhound coast
Lundy looms up IN the vista Of blue Ike a lumi-
nous gray cloud So. too. the memory ~
Kingsley is never out Of the horizon OF North
Devon. lie rescued from oblivion the fame ot
the men OF Bideford. Bdru9taple and Plymouth
Who went forth i'm the EllZabethan period 10
pillage ships and ravage towns on the Spanish
Main. and he made them virtuous corsars
founders Of a maritime empire. defenders OF
nations liberties. heroes Of the Reformation,
,onquerors in Fngand's Salamis. l. y. f.
A HORSESHOE or RUBBER.