The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-10-14

luxuriance OF the huckleberry. Pictures
que Il Is too. but its plciuresquenss has
TOO little variety TO attract the artist
greatly. For the tired brain-workefs OF
London. however II Is supremely bracing,
with its fresh brcezcs AMI .exhi arat ng
openness. So those OF the literary folk.
who can afford e so thither and make
their summer homes there. The ideal OF
Haslemercs literary colony Is the reverse
OF bohemian They have handsome
houses live well. dress well ana draw TO
them wcll-iiving and wsll-dressed p ople
Consequently prices are high, b "a ior
summer and for winter living a~d on
those authors who have arrived can ar
ford TO live there. villas and cottages.
"crofts." nests" ''crcsts." "nursis and
peaks" with various front names arc lee
furnished or unfurnishcd az very high
rates.
Grant Aliens The croft" without any
front name) IS still let almost every sum
rner. as IL was during the authors NE
time while he was travelling abroad,
material hunting and gude-book making
with hts family. His literary work was
done fn che season % winds and SHOWS
when the banshee walls around the rim
OF the Devils Punch Bowl II was here
that he wrote the woman Who Did" and
perhaps II was the winter gloom Of the
region that tinged the story with melan-
cholv. THE Croft let's al an amazing
price but It never fails OF occupants.
nnsIemere's start In the Literary
world.
Haslernere begun 60 be a literary neigh
borhood twenty-five or thirty years ago,
with the coming OF Alexander Gilchrists
widow and Prof. Tyndall. In Bfookbank
a rustic cottage at shotter MIL. Mrs. Gil
chriss finished her husbands Life OF
Blake" Through his friendship for Mrs
Cuehrist Tennyson came 20 live during
the summers az Aldworth not for away,
after his first refusal 10 buy lana tha'
would grow nothing but hurts. MIS-
Gilehrist gives various pictures Of Tenny-
rou's hssitations and uncertainties before
ne finally decided upon the purchase.
afterwards considered the luckiest OF MS
life OF the place where many years. atter.
IL was 10 die Brookhauk was then ohil
half the size u Is now. Tennyson ann
his wife visited there Tor two days whlie
horne-huntiug: Mrs. Gilchrists son wen
remembers the stumbling figure wander
ing over the uneven drawing room moor.
IL must have been also In a cloud OF
smoke for Tennyaon limited broadly his
warnings for his pipe IN one OF his very
earliest calls az Brookhank Christina
Rossctu visited Brookbank and found the
Haslemere climate "genially cold MADDOX
Brown and the Rossetu brothers were al
60 guests OF the cot.
George Eliot and MIR Lewis occupied
Brookbank when the great novelist was
resting from her labors la writing the
frst part OF Middle March. Old residents
OF the locality stiii remember the queer
couple proving about the lanes, both OF
them with laggard steps and hanging
heads, making people wonder why ia 'he
world they walked az al The very us.
lest pair YOU ever saw Is the vivid locaI
recollection OF the sollow couple. From
George Ellots letters one gathers that
they walked every day, evidently az a
duty. She kept strict account. not OF tht
fpare covered. but OF the time they were
out OF doors: never miles but always
hours. Brookbank Is IN a dip Of the land
hence less bracing than more favorite
epo4s. This must have made q more
oer.eable 20 George Eliot who hated tho
vino and In her letters IS always com
utatniur OF q. Rrookbnnk Is not pictur-
eeauelv situated being close upon the mar
row road but in those days u was
"A very rustic road lined with vines and
flowers George Eliot wrote OF the per
p.tual inhalation OF health and copse. and
ciaar views OF running water. with here
and there a grand pine wood steep, wood
clothed promontories and cleaning pools
hut she did not see much OF that as she
sat most or the summer IN the bit OF
garden wrapped IN a clock with "A hot
water bottle at her feet. II local legend
Is 10 be believed.
The sense OF standing on round
World which she claimed TO love -
much. she accomplished by leaving Brook
hank beneath her. only 20 raise into the
region OF the hated winds
Poet and Scientist nt HasieMerc.
Tennyson. who was one Of the hill folk.
found the Leweses in Brook 2ank. one
wonders how the fas,ldious and some
what sickiy woman bore with that breezy
man OF the hills. ~ those mites % rooms.
Local gossip does not deal POLITICALLY with
iha poet According 70 those WHO knew