New-York tribune., 1902-05-17

ing the margins all in the neat little chlrography
characteristic of that odd, wonderful old man
who was such. nuisance to his friends and who
wrote so charmingly':
To Comp'r. What is the meaning of the stop
after dedicGtpd7 How does the Compr construe
the passage? ito heav'n" depends upon dedicat-
ed and should follow it without a Yestige OF any
stop whatever-not much as the ghost OF
departed comma
And later he displays his insular hostility, as
Mr.. Joline says, to the people who printed the
first collected edition of his works and paid him
for them, in this note:
CToistrdI surely is the adjective, not clOisterdt
which was an impudent Yankee act Of hcentlous
change.
The charm Of autograph gathering is raised
to the highest power by the production or thls
note of Laurence Sterne to David Garrick
bringing us close TO those two famous men OF
the seventeenth century and to a perennial mas
terpiece 1t was written just before Sterne's
visit TO France. which resulted in The Senu-
mental Journey" and which, perhaps, the loan
in question made possible:
Dear Garrick: Upon reviewing my finances
this morning, with some unforeseen expenses
I find l should set out with f20 less than pru-
dent man ought. VIII you lend me twenty
younds? Yrs. L. SIEhNE'
David Garrick himself is represented by a rev.
| erential note to Lord Ossory. apparently in an
! swer to an invitation. Lord Ossory as Mr.. Jo-
| line tells US, Of Garrick's pallbearers
at his funeral in the Abbey:
| My Good Lord-I should have answered your
Lordshp's most ohliging Letter Immediately,
had not a return of my old complaint kept me
| in bed al ye time of the Post going away. MIS-
| Garrick & 1 are very unhappy that Engage
! ments here and in London will prevent us this
| time from paying our Respects to Lady Ossory
and your Lordship-had we known that our
| Company would not have been inconvenient we
| should certainly have done ourselves that hon
| our and pleasure. l am, my Lord your Lord
! D. GARRICK.
Mr. Joline's comments and criticism are of a
rare and refreshing candor He never hesitates
! to give his opinion and give it truly. He has
| letter of Gilbert Whites, for instance, to an at
torney apparently about the removal Of certain
trees on his estate. His Natural History has
| become a classic famous but unread" says Mr..
Jolne, in spite of the fact that from time to
time new editions are given to us. Some
will tell me that / mistaken in saying that
it is unread I think I demonstrate that
1 right. Many people possess copies, but
! have never met who had read all Of it.
l am willing to admit that TO my own
| liking the English curate cannot compare
with Gilbert White of America. the
| observant and fascinating John Burroughs"
| Worse yet, he confesses that though he has
! qured two sets of Scotts works. he has been able
/ TO fix his attention only on that one that the
| critics call the poorest Count Robert of Paris"
curio-s relic Of his dabbng in politics is this
note Of Scott's. dated 1919. that denotes anxi-
! ETY. quite familiar in smaller minds He says
| in part:
OF the two blackguards who have left us. there
! IS at least equal chance that recover one.
In that the election for the Burgh Of Sell
kirk and most probably for the seat turn
this vote OF Sampson. l have written 10
Lord Montagu and in the mean time will see
Sampson tomorrow early, and do all in my
power to gain him.
We see Tennyson in a moment of financial
doubt thus:
Dear Sir: I had some doubt as to whether I
ought TO accept your last cheque, but 1 do so
taking II for granted that you will not look upon
me as an Oliver Twist, asking for more"
Yours very truly, A. TENNYSON.
No doubt the poet had frequent applications
for permission TO set his lines to music He
| answers of them thus:
! Dear Sir: You can publish the words with
! your music if you will All these songs have
! been set before more than once; perhaps you
'' " ''''' A. T2ENNYsoN.
As Mr.. Joline truly says. Tennyson's beauti-
! full lyrics have never been adequately fitted
with musical setting Here is a note from
Mrs. Tennyson that somehow fails to go straight
! TO the heart:
Mr.; Tennyson has no power over his poems,
| Strahan We are glad TO hear that you
hopeful about your work
Mr.. Joline's comments are quite TO the point
That was nice, kindly. cheering sort Of as
surance to the poor fellow who received II.
! am sure don't know who he was. What he
wanted TO do with the poems which Ten
! nyson had no power is utterly incomprehensibe
! to me; but if he did not take heart in doing
/ his work" whatever it may have been, after
Mrs. Tennyson had assured him that she was
! glad that he was hopeful about II, he certainly
| exhibited gross lngratitude
But the temptation to quote letters, anecdote
| and comment comes to us on almost every page
A more entertaining collection is not often put
| before us
GLIMPSE OF KINGLAKE.