The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-23

were loud ana rich and once. when be
read 70 me a passage from feaio az
Beaumont ard Fletcher (which his sister
had brought down % show me ColerSage' 5
manuscript remarks At the end *
each piayl. the deep pathcS q
his voice gave great weight "a
the impression made NJ the poetry.
He would Jump up and slap his
sister playfusly o. the oaek, and roorss
snuT box often passed between them on
the old round table. These little traits
may serve 10 illustrate the character o.
Charles Lamb.
Lambs remarks. as given by Mr. Rus
sell. upon his contemporaries ars cf in-
terest as well as amusing. a. FER instance.
when he SAYS that '-rosn Meore'S poetry
was Ike very r8eh plum eake-veFy nice.
but too much % X az q time makes ore
sick Speaking OF Byron, ne SAID that
Byron had written only one gooa-natGr-
ed thing, and that was the vision 81
Judgment Mary" ne added 70 Miss
Lamb. don't you hate Byrons" Yes.
Charles" she replied That's right
said he. He had very high opinion Of
Wordsworth. saying: He IS very no.
bic fellow"
Mr.. Russell thinks that while Lamb and
ColerIdge were warm friends. that Lamb
teemed the Ancient Mariner and Chris
tobei' his best productions in verse" The
latter was written while stay4ng al Lamp >
house. '.He thought little OF James Mont
gonlery, re had written only enc poem
which pleased him. and that among his
minor pieces. Philip Van Artevelde' had
been sent to him as equal TO Shakespeare.
he thought it Was nsthing extraordinary.
Tenayson's poems. which had lately been
good opinion %. When at Oxford Lamb
saw Millions manuscript Of LAllegro. =
etc. and was grieyed 10 find
from the corrections and erasions
how the poet had laeored upon
them He had fancied that they
had come from his mind almost spon-
taneously.
He said that 10 be a true poet man
must run a long and rigorous apprentice
ship. He must. like the mathematician.
sit with wet towel about his head. If he
wished to excel. II was far easier 10 scrib-
BILE verses than TO hammer out good poetry,
worthy OF Immortality.
Mr.. Lamb considered The Lay OF the
Last Minstrel the best OF Scott's poetical
works or his own library. he said ne
had cusious lot of old poetry, etc,
which he had bought al stalls cheap. i
have nothing useful" he added, as for
science. know and care nothing about IL.
Coieridge used to write on the margin OF
his books when staying at his house. II
was during one of these visits that he
translated "Wallenstein." We are told
that Lamb was great walker, but that
he hated the country and loved TO walk
on the road leading to London, because ne
could then fancy he was vending
thither' He never read what any OF the
reviews said about him.
In this day. when the relatives and
friends of every famous dead man seem
intent on giving 10 the world his highest
utterances. and publishing every scratch
of his pen no matter how insignificant, II
is refreshing TO learn that when Lamb
showed his interviewer copy OF
Coleridge's WILL he observed with some
indignation that the conductors OF the
Athenaeum Journal had written TO him for
"reminiscences of his old friend. II was
very indelicate. he said, to make any such
request, and he refused,
No one who saw that grand. colossal
statue of the republic which stood at the
entrance of the peristyle at the Worlds
Columbian exposition. like beautiful
goddess welcoming the nations Of the
world, can ever forget the name OF Daniel
Chester French. the sculptor who con-
ceived and fashioned the heroic beauty
of this majestic statue. The New Eng
land Magazine of the current month has
a most interesting and appreciatige paper
on the life and work of Mr.. French. The
article is fully illustrated. giving many
examples of Mr.. French's best work.
There is also a portrait of the sculptor.
1t Is nearly thirty years ago sinceNWiliiam
Bradford the pioneer artist of the seen
cry of the frozen North. received almost
instantaneous recognition and fame for
his pictures of Greenland's icebergs. fioat-
ing ice glaciers and ships locked in fields
of ice foes This field for art had hither-
10 been unoccupied, and Bradford at once
became famous both in this country and
England where his pictures were received
with great interest
The New England Magazine In an ar
ticle on THE Artist in Greenland gives
many illustrations of Bradfords work
and an account of his cruises to Green
land in the prosecution OF his work. The
same number has also a charmingly Illus
trated paper on "old Pennington. Con
necticut" The Armour Institute of
Technology Is also of interest contain
ing as IL does. full and illustrated ac-
count of the workings of this magnificent
institution.