The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-26

! sued, for the words roughly inscribed ny
Linton over the portal, For God and
the People" have remained undisturbed
up to the present time. Among the con-
tributors to this somewhat iconoclastic
journal were such names as Joseph
Mazzini Walter Savage Landor and
Wendell Phillips-all of them Linton
personal friends and admirers; and the
paper also attracted the attention of
Carlyle. It's success, however, was not
all that had been anticipated by its
founder. English republicanism, be-
sides being cooled by the events of 184S,
had been brought into contempt by the
4 failure of the peoples Charter" move
ment year later, and Linton's sub
scription list was not inconveniently
/ long. He afterwards admitted that his
circulation depended largely upon his
generous distribution of free copies
among the deserving and appreciative.
The English Republic, however, was
not journal to be despised 1t was full
of vigorous writing. and is not unac-
ceptable reading even at this late day
as is illustrated by the fact that the
! public demand was sufficiently strong
in 1890 to warrant q reprint, with in
PRODUCTION and notes, by Kineton
Palkes Among its most interest fea-
lures are the advocacy of practically
the same doctrines that are now chiefly
associated with the name of Henry
George, and the foleshadowng of that
grand fetch of modern popullsm-the
referendum. Other productions of the
in the later days a Appledore not only
wrote and published his own books but
printed them as well-was a poem in
the I'm Memoriam' stanza, The Plant
of Freedom"-a work that inspired
Landor's tribute to Linton, beginning
'Praiser of Milton, worthy of his
praisei"
In way Brentwood became, during
Lintons occupancy, the seat of the
English republicanism of that day. 1t
became a resort not only for the ad
vanced thinkers of his own country, but
Of a famous coterie of continental ex-
lies, who had grouped themselves about
Maxzini, and, undiscouragcd by the
failures of 1S4S, We're still plotting for
the downfall of the European monar-
chies and the political regeneration of
the world. Such We're Alexander Her
zen, a wealthy Russian of noble birth,
who had sacrificed all his estates and
the respect Of his family and friends in
his efforts to overturn the government
of the Gar; and Stanislas Worcell, a
former count of Volhynia, tie head of
the Polish refugees in London, who,
ruined in health and fortunes, was still
working for the naturalization of his
unhappy land.
Mr.. Linton was not without his Eng
fish friends who We're welcomed guests
at Brantwood-the artists William Bell
Scott, one of the few survivors of that
time, Edward Wehnert and Thomas
Sibson; William Bridges Adams, hus-
band of Sarah Flower, author of Near
er, My God, to Thee and other ia
nous hymns. who with her sister Eliza
was among the friends of Lintons early
manhood. There We're several houses in
the neighborhood where the master of
Brentwood, as Mr.. Linton was called,
was welcome visitor and he was es-
pecially fond Of a walk over the hills to
Ambleside, to call upon Harriet Mar
tineau, with whom he became very
neghborly. When Mr.. Linton was not |
engaged with his friends or his literary
work he devoted his time to his pafticu-
lar art-wood engraving. He repro
duced a number of the words of Ros-
sett and Millais; was the artist, as we'll
as the engraver, of the illustrations in
Harriet Martineau's English Lakes
and also made the drawings for a book
On the Lake Country, the text to which
was furnished by his wife, Eliza Linn
Linton, the well-known English author
ass who dies only few months ago.
Linton lived at Brentwood from 1852
TO 1867 and from 1868 to 19S7-the inter-
vening years he leased the house to a
English poet who neglec-
led to pay his rent. In 1867 the place
was sold to Ruskin. Linton never re-
.urned to Brentwood, even for a brief
visit, though he kept on friendly terms
With his successor, occasionally ex-
changing books with him. Unions cor
who numbered many of
he notable names of the century, al
ways kept him well informed concern
ng the later master Of Brentwood
)ne of the most interesting bits of Rus
liniana among Linton's letters is the
GLOWING description of the last days of
lis successor written by one of the
eading literary Enslishmen of the pres
mt day. /
I am very glad that you speak so
warmly of Ruskin and / more than
gree with all you say To me and to t
be men of my generation, especially to
hose who have known him personally u
s l have, Ruskin must always be an
bject of the deepest respect and love. t
feel that I owe to him more than I
an tell, not only In art, but in religion,
\ politics and ethics, in the magma ]
i've enjoyment of natural beauty.
las, his brain has been too much for V
i'm; he worked it so intensely in youth
nd early manhood that now 1t is all S
wry. Sometimes, I am told. he wakes
p and talks, but only on ordinary sub 4
'cts, and then his mind collapses and
e sits like great-grandfather of 90" \
nconscious of all about him. My
lend L, whom he has known since I
'53, was not at all sure that Ruskin
new who he was, though Mr. Arthur 7
evern thought he did know and when
Is great friend DR.. Acland came to
rantwood. Ruskin Gas hear) stared at
i'm, unconscious, then suddenly en- c.
raced him, saying: II know you, but
don't know who you are!" Is not that
I'd and touching? Another sad thing n
that he has spent every penny of his
rye fortune, not wastefully but in o
generosity; so that l be-
eve he and the Arthur Severns, who Il