The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-29
CHARLES LAMB.
Newly Discovered Letters BY the Author
of "EIia,"


ridge, the Lloyds, etc. Edited by E. v.
Lucas, with portraits. J. B. Lippincott,
Philadelphia.
This is an exceedingly interesting
book Notwithstanding the fact that the
Lloyds, not as might be inferred from
the title Charles Lamb form the real
subject. AS a whole, the book strikes
one as rather thin, but any number of
interesting pages about unimportant
persons can be pardoned for the sake
of the delightful glimpses which it af-
tords of Lamb, Southey, Wordsworth,
Coleridge and others, and the finely
sympathetic sense which Mr.. Lucas
has brought to his task.
The Lloyds were a family of Bir-
mingham Quakers, with two of the sons
OF which Charles Lamb was at differ
emit times on terms of intimacy. Chas.
Lloyd, the eldest of the IL, Is, IL or IS
children, whichever the number was,
who formed the Lloyd family at this
| period, was a contemplative, self-con-
scious, sensitive youth, an interested
/ inquirer into ethical questions and as
assiduouS an analysis of an emotion as
Rousseau, his master. 1t was after a
business career and the profession of
medicine had alike been attempted and
! discarded and he was living at home,
! building air castles and reading works
on theology that Coleridge stopped in
| Birmingham ON his way to Derby,
where a school was in preparation for
him, and cast over the young man the
spelI OF ms MIND. gloWihg. anu con-
haent IlreIess' persuaslVe,
SoiefioSe WAS llieH 20 ana q Fantl-
socI9.lSt. Lloya, VINO was Two years
ms JUNIOR conceived the lue1 OF en-
tefl1ag Colef!d5e Iailllly, N Whlch Mt
tie Hartley had Just mace ms appear
dllce, aila mere coiltlnulhg ms stuoles'
US ColefIdge pupil ailu 1fieItu: III re-
/ tifh Tor BOARD, LOGGING, lHstfucIoll ana
tAe COMPROMISING ol MS lfteHa anu
llietitoH' -loyu was - pay eo pouiaus
yea. -.
AccoIuihsiS, ne soon .9oh " ms
residence win the Coief1ages at brls-
tol put cle ASSOCIATION OF the Two men,
as any one VINO knew the elaer might
nave pfopnesled became Tess ana less
satisfactory as li1fle went on, uhtll, ieSs
.hstil three months alter the yoens ~
low had seated hlnself at the IeeI OF
ms master ColerlaSe Wrote n tile loi-
loving terms 10 MI. LLOYD senior.
| Il think II my duty to acquaiht you
with the nature Of my connection with
your SON II he is 10 stay with me,
can neither be his tutor nor his fellow
student nor IN amy way lplparl reg
| ular system OF knowledge. MY Gays
shall devote 10 the requirement OF
practical husbandry ana horticulture,
that as to beg am ashamed may
at least be able to dig and my even
ings will be fully occupied in fulfilling
my engagements with the critical Re-
! view and New Monthly Magazine, II,
| therefore, your son occupy room IN
my cottage, he will be there merely as
a lodger and a friend; and, the only
money l shall receive from him will be
the sum which his board and lodging
will cost me, and which, by an ac-
curate calculation, / find will amount
to half a guinea week, exclusive Of
his washing, porter, cider, spirits, in
short any potation beyond table beer
these he must provide himself with. /
shall keen no servant
IT must add that Charles Lloyd must
furnish his own bedroom. 1t is not in
NV noyyer to do it without running into
debt. from which may heaven amid
lie most angry dispensations preserve
mott,
n hannened quite unexpectedly, while
Cojeridee and his family were getting
saftIad in tbe Neither Stowey cottage,
that Charles Lloyd visited Charles
T,oYnb n, london The two men took to
each other Roth would be % the fol-
LOWING month their birthdays being
MI two DAYS aDart. but Lamb, who
| iived ynucb in the shadow Of the
| trag edy which overhung his sister,
/ needed mind as SERMONS and sympa-
thetic os cbariae T Iovd,s while How'd
w +t,o,,gb aosseesed Of rare intellect
,,ai ..if+s Iacised niYnhlenees aexibilifv
80 nd f,l,, fo11nd in the future author Of
s sIrI 49, sti,,.iil,Is which filled tba
Wa lof+ NV ftalarido e,s sbfftv and mn
eon4 isl 1. y IT, .
A fer nearly a hundred wears have