The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-01
THE LATE MR.. LINTON.

torial columns says:
William James Linton has been term
ed one OF the great men Of the century.
1t was to him that Lander, the poet,
addressed his verse, Lauder of Milton,
worthy Of his land EIe was republi-
not to be royalist. He. was the artist
on whose shoulders the mantle of Be
wick fell. He purchased Appledore, the
house where he died, from an artist, a
friend, for the reason, he always said,
that it was half way between Boston
and New York. For a quarter Of a
century it was the home of great man.
but the people of New Haven were not
well aware Of the fact.
The Hartford Post says editorially
concerning Mr.. Linton:
The father Of white line engraving.
one of the master minds Of the century,
William James Linton--a sort of second
William Blake, whose disciple he was
died yesterday in his eighty-siXth year
at New Haven, having lived life of
service to mankind. He was wonder
full man, of high intellect, whose activ
ity and successor as an engraver was
second only to his literary gifts. his
power as a translator of French poems
and as friend and leader Of the Eng
lish working people. A Chartist Of the
chartists, he represented the London
worlSingmen before the French direc-
tory In 1848 after the deposition Of Louis
PHILIPPE. Strong in his sympathies as
in his powers of intellect, he was also
one. of the most retiring of men. He
lived in a modest cottage back of the
East Rock on the North Haven road
and for exercise titled his little gar
den with his own hands. One Of his
daughters Is the wife Of Professor
Mather, principal of the Boardman
Manual Training school.
For his second wife, Mr. Linton mar
ried In London in 1858, Eliza Lynn,
daughter of clergyman, who is we'll
known as a novelist and essayist, and
who always wrote under her married
name-Eliza Lynn Linton. They sepa-
rated in 1857. In the latter year Mr..
Linton came to this country and lived
by engraving blocks for the magazines
and fine Illustrated works. One of his
best of late years are the cuts in Than
atopsis'' His History of Wood En-
craving in America; his wood En-
craving, a. Manual of Instruction" and
Some Practical Hints on Wood En-
craving for the Benefit of Reviewer and
the Public" are among his controver-
sial writings. They all oppose the mis-
cradle and mechanical process work,
which Of late years has so badly disfig-
ured our ephemeral literature. 1t was a
losing fight, but he was right.
Mr.. Unions volumes of poems, stor-
les for children, political tracts; his
Ferns Of the English Lake Country" !;
his compilations Of verse, are all of
of value. In 1882 he made an anthology
entitled Golden Apples of Hesperus" !;
the printing, engraving and all the book
being his own. Love Lore" done at
New Haven in 1887, was privately pre-
scented. He assisted R. III. Stoddard in
editing a collection of English verse
published In five volumes at New York
in 1883. In 1891 Yale gave this hearty
old Englishman. leonine of feature and
shaggy of Beard, an M. A. He belonged
to several American societies.
From an editorial in the Springfield
Republican: Mr.. Linton was man
of striking character, uncommon gift
and a multifarious career. He was not
only master of the line, the finest of
all the old schools Of wood engraving,
but he was a poet of individual quality,
a naturalist in some degree, a writer
of srong prose, and in his prime in Eng
land a chartist and agitator, friend
of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Louis Blanc,
and believer in the United States of
Europe-but of late years had made him
cynical in this direction, while no less
radical.
8 . His work in engraving from
his early days on the Illustrated Lon
don News (1S46-D to the highest reach
of his skill in his own personal pub
lications, has been unsurpassed; he was
one of the most strenuouss opponents of
the process cut and the half-one, and
all those mechanical means by which
the true and artistic value of engrav-
ing has been deprecated. That these
processes reached the people did not
make up to him for the fact that art
was debased.
y His volumes of poems, stories
for children, political tracts; his Ferns
of the English Lake Country; his com.
pilations Of verse, are all of interest. He
made an interesting anthology in 1882
entitled Golden Apples Of Hesperus"
the printing, engraving and all the
book being the work Of his own hand
1t is a choice and somewhat esoterie
selection of verses to suit his peculiar
tastes; the edition was limited Similar
to this as a work Of his own was the
privately printed Love Lore" done al
New Haven in 1887. He assisted R. H
Stoddard in editing collection of Eng
lish verse published in five volumes al
New York in 1888 His taste, rather
than the better balanced taste of Stod-
dard, gave character to the collection
which was not calculated to win wide
acceptance Linton was a handsome
robust, forcible man, of a prominent
English type. and with his long gray
hair and full beard he was a pictur-
esque parsonage. He was given the de-
gree of A. M. by Yale college in 1891.
THE LATE HENRY NJ. TABER
Westport, Dec. SL-The death, a few
days ago, in New York, Of Henry M
Taber will recall memories by many OF