The San Francisco call., 1897-11-07

esteem and for whose genius we have par
tlcuIar admiration. Held up to the light
OF day their faults appear magnifed out
OF proportion. their position loses much of
its glamour and our respect dimInshes &C.
cordinGly.
That all the world loves a lover is an
axiom incapable OF contradiction. 1t loves
him all the more, however, when he be.
longs to the class denominated by Jeanne
"the hupper SuckIes." What Keats called
'love in hut with water and a crust is
doubtless interesting to the immature
mind of the gushing 16.year-old damsel
with romantic notions, but after all it is
the love of those in high places that inter-
ests US; otherwise whence the commotion
attendant upon the marriage of some
wealthy pork-packer's daughter with the
scion OF noble European house2
Authors are proverbially difficult men
to get along with at home, yet there have
been those whose domestic LIE was
model for the rest of the world. Take
the case of Alphonse Daudet, whose union
proved most happy one. His wife has
been" says his brother, 1.-THE light OF his
hearth, the regulator of his work and the
discreet counselor of his inspiration.
There Is not a page that she has not re-
written, retouched and enlivened, " and her
husband bore witness of her devotion and
interchangeable collaboration in the dedi-
cation of "Nabob," but she would not
allow this dedication to appear. Wit h all
this Madame Daudet excelled as a ho use
wife. No Bohemian irregularity was there
in her home, and Daudet's visitors when
they lett have often been heard to ex-
claim, What a capital wife he must
have"
Then there was DR.. Johnson, who mar
ried al the age of 26 widow twenty years
older than himself 1t is we'll known that
many husbands and wives are unhappy in
the marriage state simply because before
Joining forces they were not honest with
each other. Johnson took no risks. He
told MS atflanced wife plainly that he was
OF humble extraction, that he had no
money and that one of his uncles had
been hanged. The good woman responded
that she had no more money than he, and
that although none of her relatives had
been hanged, she had several who ought
10 be! She made Johnson a good WIFE
This is evidenced by the fact that when
she was 81 years of age he addressed her
as "My dear girl" and MY charming
love" This to woman who is thus de-
scribed by Garrick: "She is very fat, her
swelled cheeks were of ford red, pro-
duced by thick painting and increased by
the liberal use of cordiaIs, glaring and fan
tastic il her dress and affected both in her
speech and general behavior"
The love affairs OF Thomas Carlyle form
a far more amusing episode on paper thai
they must have done in real life. He was
a man with the instincts of a child and
the temper of a fend, and despite his
contempt for women of genius whom he
called ''the very devil when you take
them on the wrong tack" he married
one who was abe to be of considera BILE
assistance 10 him in his work. Neverthe-
less the life he led her was not one to be
envied, and we find her writing to a
friend after the conclusion of her hus-
bands book, The French Revolution:
"QueIle Uie! Let no woman who values
peace of soul ever dream of marrying an
author" In the lives of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carlyle we have an xemplfication of the
truth that two of a kind never agree"
Both suffered alike from impaired diges-
ton and disordered nerves, but, after all,
as their friend Tennyson remarked: at
was good thing that Carlyle and Mrs.
Carlyle did marry each other, for other
wise there might have been four unhappy
people instead of two"
The love affairs of Lord Nelson are
treated in a remarkably unpre JUDGED
manner by the author of the book under
review. Nelson was a man who. it is said,
suffered from that worst of infections, q
nagging wife. A late biographer of his
Captain Mahan, has attempted to do him
justice in the matter of his relations with
Lady Hamilton, but if, as has been
charged, his spouse was of the hen-peck-
ing variety, one finds in the circumstance