New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-31

stated than by that sapient tapster. One of
Whites favorite haunts was the village Of Will
FORD, near Clifton Grove, and the visitor TO
MILFORD Church may see there marble medal
lion portrait Of HIM. and window Of colored
glass; inscribed, I'm Memoram. H. X. w"
Everybody who reads is. OF course. acquainted
with Byron's fine lines about White, in the
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers The
figure Of the struck eagle" bitterly aware
that his own feather had winged the slaugh-
ferrous shaft now Quivering in his heart, is one
Of the most expressive in Er glish poetry, and
worthy to b remembered with Goldsmith's no
bic image Of the tall cliff with rolling clouds
around its base and eternal sunshine its
summit But suitable monument 10 Henry
Kirke White in the city Of Nottingham would
be a fitting crown TO Byrons tribute we'll
as a worthy denotement of right public
feeling to this subject. The boy poet Of
Nottingham died before he had fully uttered his
soul and his message; but he struck the true
note hc lived long enough to show himself
true poet (recal for example. his Rosemary;
and the whole representative pathetic story Of
genius fettered by cruel circumstance and baf-
fled by early death is crystallized in him
In a previous letter mention made Of the
singular public apathy existent here as to the
poet Philip James Bailey the author Of the mar
vellous poem Of "Festus'' Bailey like White was
born in Nottingham. Crhe house, a four-story
brick structure. stood at Weekday Cross and was
demolished in 1895, TO make room for a railway
No memorial Of him exists. and few persons are
aware that n is still living. Byron was born in
London, but the Byron family has been con
spicuous in Nottnghamshire since the Norman
Conquest the poets ancestral home is only
few miles distant: his grave is still nearer: and
al the top Of Standard Hill, near the castle,
may still he seen. substantially unchanged the
old, ivy-clad brick dwelling named NeWStead
House in which from time to time 0I!s-lSE9,
be lived. with his eccentric mother The
city and the whole neghborhood New
stead Abbey. Annesey. where Mary cha
worth lived southwen,' Northumberland,
Is eloquent of him But no monument 20 that
colossal genius is found in Nottingham The
people do not appear to know,-or, if they
know, seemingly they do not care,-,hat one
Of the greatest poets that ever lived Was as
ISOLATED with their city, and that his ashes rest
almost at their civic threshold.
Bryon's personal associations with NeVstead
must have been intimate and precious. He in
herited his title and property III lI9S upon the
death without direct lineal descendants, OF his
great-uncle called The Wicked Lord Byron,
and in the autumn OF that year he was conveyed
from Aberdeen to NcWstead, - MS mother, 10
take possession Of the estate. The mouse was IN
a dilapidated condition. and for that reason. and
also because she wished to obtain. in the neigh
boring city. surgical or mechanical treatment
for her boys lame foot, Mrs. Byron took lodg-
ings in Nottingham and that was Byron : home
for about year when H. was ken to Sloane
Terrace London In 1901 ne was at Cncten-
ham: in 1902 at Bath but in 1906 Mrs Byron
AGAIN lodged in Nottingham. while her boy was
gent to HARROW School and Newstead was let
In 1904 and thereafter for some time Mrs.
Pyrol. dwelt at SouthweN. in house, on the
green called Burgage Manor. and there the
youth passed his vacations. often visiting New
stead and also making intimate acquaintance
with Annesey In 1905 Byron went 10 Cam
bridge University and it was not until the fall
OF 1SAsS that he regularly took up his residence
at Newstead He was there when his dog Boat
swain died in November 1S'S, ana there at
about that time.-lsOS- 1900 he wrote his ia
mons satire English Bards and Scotch Review
ers"-whch has much OF Pope's felicitous sar-
casn, and rneloIous style. without any Of his
inv.terato deep seated malGnity, and which ITS
suthor lived to regret He went abroad in 1903
soon after attaining TO his majority, but he was
again at Newstead just after the death OF his
mother in August. 1871, ne saw the ghost OF
the Black Frar there. in 1914. he was there
when ne received Miss Milbanke's consent to
become his wife; and ne lived there, Tor "hlIe
after his marriage. which occurred January =
1915 In April. 1916 ne left England never 10
return. and IN 1918 his school-ieio" COL j.
Wfdman bought the Able! and its contents
for f1SO,TO
Newstead Abbey was founded ana endowed
by Henry the Second in expiation OF his crime
he