New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-16
4 TALK WITH BROWNING.
SIR CHARLES cAvAH purFr's MEMORIES.

SIR CHARLES GAvAN DuFFYs MEMORIES.
From The Contemporary Review.
had the satisfaction Of seeing Browning for the
win small but well-shaped head. His personal
uttcrance wants depth and force. ana gives the
But ne is gracious and winning in high degree.
After dinner adjourned TO a singuary agree.
able smoking room, lined with encaustic tiles, and
cooled with ferns and creeping plants. The talk
fell first upon palmers on. whose death hlled the
newspapers. Browning ana Forster agreed with
suggeston Of mine that the tone OF the Lemon
ing He was not. Browning said what they rep
resented him TO be; and no human soni believed
as an experiment in journalism which ought 10
succeed. 1t substituted for the heavy Joints and
menu OF small pleasant plats, decatey cooked
and daintily served Browning agreed mat II was vas
TO know what going on in the world. as man
not as it was furnished by reading-room or news
agencies Forster said he had not ye, seen the
did not attract him. | asked Forster who was
mimickins Fonblappgue in The Examiner" Why;
feeble organization, who had kept himself alive for
nany years by careful regimen and general watch;
pursuits Browning said his own father. who
a careful liver had reached eighty i've and was
e:Y to Wordsworth said Carlyle considered
Wordsworth the best taiker In England Browning
he spoke little. and only on subjects that interested
himself without & be 10 net the ase OF ms was aga
dinner; Savage Lander also was present, and both
invited him 10 ;afe wine Win tnem dtter
The kindly fashion % that day. ard never was a
youngster so intoxicated with delight. | said 10
Forster that tho portrait OF Savage Lander In his
memoir OF him had the look OF Wild animal, the
mouth ready TO snap al you. and in the eyes there
seemed 10 Turk savage reserve OF broodng dis
content II the Ten Commandments were written
In Francis Horners face. a majority OF the seven
deadly sins seemed TO Turk In that mouth. Forster
said that the porirai. was ill-engraved; Landors
explosion of wrath covered a generous and sym
pathetic nature. always eager for the right and
the true. asked Forster how Il came that Dick
ems IN one of his last prefaces, could declare that
ne had not Leigh Hunt in his mind when he
painted Harold Skimpole /; was crre! carica-
lure. turning foibies and weaknesses into crimes.
hut II was undenably Leigh Hunt. oh" said
Forster. "if you Rad seen the proofs before they
grounds for that opinion. SO much was cut out
that We persuaded ourselves that the salient
traits were effaced. but TOO many OF them re-
inclined. Dickens alarmed the impression
he had made. and did his best to repair the
wrong. and doubtless, like the queen in the play.
did protest too much
Browning thought Hunt had been i-treatcd he
bac been punished with severity his offences did
no< justify. Yes. said for the second time OF
least. IN Hunts life his insoucance and cviiy had
been visited with 4 savage scorn which ought
be reserved for breaches OF honor Moore plunged
him Ia bath CT vitrio for his book en- Lord
Byron
we know now-Moore knew ther-that Byron
was selfish and arrogant. and sorely anrontcd the
sensitive poet whom Shelley loved SO well. Hunts
two years imprisonment. for suggesting that the
immaculate Prince Regent associated with per-