New-York tribune., 1901-04-14

plished and had a style of her own that D-o,,,d
easily have been distinguishable from that OF
another woman who wrote we'll Judge tban
If ! can consent To- acknowledge that take the
soft. graceful hand Cf a lady when | feel the
scratches OF Of The ciovGn claw Of male scholar
in every line. Lady Butte told me that Horace
Waipole and two other wits Joined 10 dfver,
themselves at the expense of the creduity OF
the public by composing these letters"
The late NJ Got, the distinguished French
actor began ~ keep journal We are told ~
the very outset of his long career. This was
curing his prentice years at the Conservatoira
before he was twenty The first portion Of the
diary, which he afterward used 10 caIi his
"copybook." is full of his youthful .i~0n~as
sions on his art. his studies. and last not EAST
his masters, their mannerisn.s aad idiosvu-
crasIeS- some of his juvenile remarks show
mature Judgment and wonderful insight into tho
lhlIcsophy of the actors art The early pages
in the diary, however would not be the mos, in
terestlnS Iorti of the memoirs. Got either kept
up his Journal continuously or resumed it after
a break. At any rate. his friends say that his
diary for the latter years Of his life EXISTS
NJ ther 1t viii be published is another question
Got Ead a sharp Wit, and il is said hat the
pages in which he deals with the contemporary
stage and with the actors of to-day were written
with a peculiarly trenchant pen
Alas that the high erected themes shouId Stir
so many versfers To the preparation of trash
Ihere We're actually something like three thou
sand poems" published in England concerning.
enough to live,
The legend that the original portrait Of the
MARQUIS OF Steyne was withdrawn because Lord
i-ahSdpWnc was offended at the likeness which
~ p"re 10 him has So Interested Lord Sherh0rne
that he has referred the matter To the one per
son who could speak authOritatiVely on the sub
Jet This IS his aunt. Lady Louisa Howard
Lord transformers only daughter. He sends her
answer To Notes and Queries"
Il am sorry did not answer Your letter at
once about my father as no one who knew nv
rather could have believed II for u moment but
waited To See If could TeCol!-ct ANYTHING that
might have led 10 such absurd idea. I never
myself met ThaCkeray at LanSdOWne House or
heard OF him there. but friend of mine tells
she dId so several times in his later years and
| feel sure the acquaintance gan long after
Vanity Fair was published. My brother lent
us the early numbers 10 read they came out,
but did not finish II till the edition Of 1919
which imagine was the tirst-hut I never heard
4 word of any supposed likeness to my father
in any Of the illustrations. Ii any such was
pointed out L. him. he would have only laughed
and taken NO further notice. and /
never imagined that the character of Lord Steyne
If he had read it, could h. pointed at him
remember hearing at the time that Lord Hert-
ford was supposed to he suggested certainly no
part of it suits my father. kept perhaps a
taste for pictures and the title
II wonder hO started the idea in Notes and
Queries, ana what il was founded on. | have
been looking At the illustrations in my copy OF
Vanity Fair in hopes of seeing Il likeness OF
my father. which would be curious, in the
carCatures of the day he never real like
ness. only Il conventional sort Of face.