New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-01

q rockingham, q quiet little Sussex village near
The sea. 1t 10 called The Elms'' and IL sur
rounded by beautiful el,ns and lex trees Here
he leads an active life IN more than one way
for ne Is said to ride three hours every morning
and to walk from Ave to six miles later in the
day
Mr.. Kipiine's uncle. the late Sir Edward
Burne Jones. had a permanent country nome at
rockingham and at the school in that village
the Duke Of Wellington, Cardinal Manning the
hrst Lord Lytton the novelsO and General
Boulangsr were pupils.
Concerning John c. Calhoun, Mr.. Charles
Cotesworth Pinokney gives in the July "Lippin-
colt" some interesting land adoring) reminis-
cencas. He one Of Calhouns young neigh
bors in South Carolina, and ne notes that In the
region Of his home the statesman was called the
thinking machine Of his State. The Pendie
tonians" Mr.. Pinckney says. were justly PROUD
Of Mr.. Calhoun and sensitive AS to the impress
sion which he made upon strangers when
Judge Prioeau became a resident we were anx-
ious to know his impressions Of our Ajax was
present when they first met. AS soon as he ieft
the table the question was eagerly asked. How
do you like him?'
mot at ALL was the reply. 4 desire never TO
meet him again
a
explanation was demanded.
81 hate a man who makes me think so much'
the Judge replied For the last three hours
have been on the stretch. trying TO follow MIN
through heaven and earth / feel wearied with
the effort; and hate a man who makes me feel
nv own inferiority' As the Judge could safely
venture 10 disparage himself the implied com
pliment was accepted and Pendleton was APP
peased
Calhoun's varied stores Of information seemed
Observation-Disclosures must have been sometimes
q little exhausting His wonderful memory
we are told by his friend held names oates
figures all statistics. at command. All topics
great or small political. historical. philosophic'
geographic, literary. scientific. were equaily
within his range but political economy was his
favorite theme. He would turn from the discus
sion Of the last novel to the question Of the ori-
gin Of the Turanan races, or 70 the govern
mental theory of some European state, or to the
expectations Of British India. A lady once Of
fered him a plate Of dried figs. He gave in re-
turn the whole history Of fgs-their culture the
mode Of curing them. the amount annually eX-
ported from Spain and the Levant, their COM
mercial value and the annual revenue which
the United States derived from the tax upon
. them"
Alas. for the incautious dame whose hospi-
table action was thus rewarded
The vicarage Of Dean Prior. where Robert
Herrick lived has been partially modernzed ana
added TO- but the main structure Is the same aS
IN the days when the poet wrote his 'Hesper-
ides'' within its walls. He died there In 1904 at
the age Of eighty-three. 1t is interesting to re-
member that some eighty years ago very aged
woman resident at Dean Prior wont to re-
neat as what she called her night prayers
Herrck's beautiful "Litany 10 the Holy Spirit
This woman could neither read nor write. but
had learned verses from the lips OF her mother
who in turn. had received them by oral tradition
from her own parent (nnce servant OF Her
Kicks Vicarage), land thus tho verses had lived
through nearly two centuries upon the lips Of
three unlet.ered women
Heine can have no statue at Dusseldorf in this
generation at least. Though the citizens SUBJ
scribed for the purpose the Emperor interfered.
not caring 10 have the poet or the reNoiu''h
honored in his empire.
Nine Sarah Grand Is writing a couple Of es-
says under the titles Of ION the Choice or
Wife" and con the Choice Of n Husband This
lady's views. by the way. seem 10 he growing
less and less important.
Mr.. George Moore says Din an interview quoted
by The London ChronicleD that he does not
write for money. For the sake Of my books
he adds. Il have sacrificed a great deal Of
money. ! write because feel have something
to say: and It is for this reason that cannot
consent to expurgate alter this or that pas
sage. II cannot write my books as | want
70 write them do not want to write any book.
I follow no fashion I do not write society tales
when society tales are In fashion. and stories
Of carnage and rapine when romance is in fash
ION"
In discussing the fact that his new book.
Evelyn lines" has been boycOtted by Messrs
Smith and does not, therefore. appear on any
railway bookstalls in England Mr. Moore de-
clared that the theme Of this novel Is that
none can persist in wrong doing-it is too un-
comfortable What differentiates man from
other animals" he said. rs conscience Man
thinks certain things wrong. The fact that he
"a unable to say why does not abate-it even
accentuates-the struggle which ne wages with
himself II Is impossible for man to do That
which he feels TO be wrong.
In Sister Teresa" the book upon which the
novelist is now at work his intention is to show
how when once a moral idea takes root In the
human mind II moulds all the circumstances Of
life: how It shapes everything; or Ito put 1t
better) how the external disappears and moth
ing remains but the internal world"
II hardly see." Mr.. Moore concluded smiling.
now books conceived on such philosophical lines
eould be Objectionable. How is it possible on
such a theme 70 write anything which can be
called obnoxious7'
Nude has taken 500 copies Of Evelyn lines"
Nine. Laura de Maupassant who is living
secluded and quiet life at Nice. continually re-
ceives from authors requests for permission 10
dramatize the novels Of her dead son. Guy de
Maupassant. She rarely grants such request