New-York tribune., 1898-10-23
kINGL.ihE.

SOME INTERESTING DETAILS OF MS LIFE
The editor OF the new edition Of "Eothen"
gives a little biographical introduction which
pleasantly serves in the absence Of a complete
memoir For such memoir there are no ma
terials. as by Kinglak dying request all his
recoverable papers and letters were destroyed
Here the details to be found In the introduc-
ton referred to:
He was born at Taunton arida nutrx for a
young man Of promise its religion imbece, its
society Phstne, its politics consistently venal
But his mother was woman Of great personal
charm and with no ordinary powers Of mind ;
more than once he writes Of her with devoted
gratitude; ii is recorded that on the day OF her
funeral. at a churchyard five miles away. he
missed from the family group reassembled
IN the mourning home; ne found to have or
1ered his horse, and galiOped back in the dark
ness to his mothers grave. She belonged to an
old Somerse tshre family the Woodfordes of
Castle Cary; ii as his mothers that
Lady Hester StanhOpe, her neighbor long before
at Burton. PyDsent, received him in her Leb-
anon stronghold He went TO Eton and to Cam
bridge; debarred by shOrt-sightedness from the
military profession, which above all others he
would have preferred he was called to the bar
and gained an extensive chancery practice His
visit to the East was in 1S}4-the date is given
q page 1870, but he afterward suppressed it
when he only twenty-three years old, and
hsted fifteen months. Brought out in 1914 after
being rejected by several publishers, "Eothen"
at once became popular, passing in the following
wear through three fresh editions. In 1857 he
entered Parliament for Brdgewater, broke down
In his first speech. and it is said never spoke
again. he enjoyed, however. his Parliamentary
nfe, and was bitterly mortified when in 1868 he
was unseated for alleged bribery on the part OF
bis agents.
Uc was never married. having observed. ne
used TO say that wives always prefer other men
TO their own husbands; but he "@s blandly alive
10 female charms; the pictures in "Eothen" OF
fhe romping Bethlehem girls, OF the rogulsh OF
toman lady in COnstantnople streets OF the
majestic Smyrnians and beWltchng CypIlots;
his COMMISSION for the ugly Bedouin women ana
for the Dead Sea goatherd with ms plalh-laced
vife are pleasantly and healthily amOrous, not
viIlanous" as Iachimo distinguished the inno-
cont freedom of poor Imogen his gallant con
fdences ever playful and unsuggestlFe, pespeak
moi the tainted libertine, but the suSceptlple
.oft hearted wholesome minded bachelor lie
nsed TO wish that the Church had pIlestesseS a.
well as priests. the former 10 pe 'ne I"s ~
mon as the latter are the shepherds OF women
Tn general society he was easily checked ana
noet easily bored. j remember how once al d
well selected dinner party Where VI IeiHp'e
and Dean Lake were present ana "heie ne
came inclined to talk his best. second mana
.riticis1n on his "Crlmca by a 1OOHSh pdrsoh'
the official and incOngruous element In the
rroup stifrened him into persistent silence
Id ,ised TO say that his pulse ought 10 be leit
al,yave after the first course, and that II u
how.d laneuor he should be moved to the SIDE
o. com. other partner. Mrs. Andrew crosse
ubo if not the rose was very near the rose ana
80 in contact vicariously with klhglake
.roonc other notablcs. relates that during ms
,atoI illness the Duke OF Bedford regalcd ms
Auino friend by charging on the adNah'dscs Oi
cremation THE Duke offers you cr'ha.'un H.
Ia Le "as the Duchess would offer you a Dox
80 o, uo Irncra Crcmated he was at Nohlns I'D
root . I'd tho Duke was there TO see