The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-21

have always had = weakness Tor that PeIioo'
We go Byron with his poses and his rolling
COLLAR. Heine was over about that time
getting himself shaved In the London barber
! shops and finding plenty OF irritation In
those not too luxurious places because
| the BARRIERS insisted that the Duke OF well
| llngton was q bigger man than Napoleon
Bonaparte. Thackeray was at the Charter
| house School. having recently come from
| India. He has recorded, we believe, that
| his ship stopped on the way at st. Helena
| and that he was taken up for atremulous
| look at the great imprisoned French ogre
! whose last humiliation, according to Heine,
was involved In the wholly unwarranted
! opinion Of the London BARRIERS. Men still
stood responsible in those days. at the
swords point or the pistols mouth. for the
words that they uttered-except. we believe
| that the BARRIERS were exempt. George
iii. about that time was ceasing to be king
was dying with painful and melancholy
slowness. Il was q time Of fine dressing.
Of ornate swearing and desperate caro-
playing.
The soene Of this story is Bindon Castle
a fine, neglected place. The Lord OF Bin
don, Sir David Cheveral, spent his time on
the top of q tower studying the stars. He
had been crossed in love and was plunged
in melancholy His kinsman, old Simon
Rickart, inhabited the donjon keep, where
he expressed and combined the essences
OF herbs. and won for himself the reputation
OF being an alchemist. He lived with his
astute cat, Belphegor, and his deaf-and-
dumb servitor, the boy Barnaby. His
lovely daughter, Ellinor, was for ten years
a wife and then abe became q widow. The
story Is love story, and the lovers are the
star-gazer and the old simplers widowed
daughter.
There Ia a marked dramatic and a fine
poetical quality In the story. Ellinor
went UP with David to his observatory.
Through the long passages OF the house.
up the narrow, winding stairs Of the tower,
conducted her. for all his absent-minded-
ness. as a courtier might conduct his
queenl When they reached the platform
OF the keep, upon the threshold of the
observatory, she tripped up against some
unnotioed step, and would have fallen had
he not caught her in his arms. For an
instant her bosom must have lain against
his heart, the strands Of her hair against
his lips: and she honored him for the sim
plicity with which he supported her and
gave her his hand to lead her in"
She answered to Shakespeare's phrase.
"a thing OF fire and air. David watched
her as she let the Congratulated sunlight
into the castle. with quick hands she
unbarrcd q shutter and. her impetuous
strength making little Of rusty resistance,
flung open the easement before he had had
time to divine her intention. He halted
on his way to help her. arrested by the gush
OF binding light and the blast Of wild wind,
that seemed to leap at his throat.
She stood In the very shaft Of the light,
in the flood OF the breeze; he stood watch
ing her from within, in the gloom and the
stagnation. Her black gown huttered and
turned fame at the edges, alternately
chung to and wound away from her straight
limbs, now revealing, now throwing into
shadow the curves Of a foot that, In it's
sandal, pressed the ground as lightly as
ever a Diana's arrested on the spring.
The fresh airs engulfed themselves under
her kerchief into her white bosom.
Her hairl The suns sparkles had got
into it'll
II Is all a very fascinating story, romantic
and poetical enough for anybody. 1t Is
delightful to breakfast with the lovers on
with the rector, the scholarly and excel
lent DR.. Tutterville. who breakfasted much
less simply. Surely the readers mouth
will water for the wine purloined by
the faithess old butler Giles-the last Of
seven dozen stolen and consumed by that
thieving functionary. He. could scarcely
wait till the gorgeous liquid garnet had
brimmed to the edge before grasping the
glass But palsied as his hands were. not
a drop did they spill. A mouthful f1rst. to
let the taste OF 1t lie on his palate; another
to roll around his tongue; then, unctuously.
as slowly as was compatible with the act Of
swallowing. the ichor Of the grape destined
to warm a high-born heart and to illumine
the workings Of noble mind was sent to
kindle the base fires Of Sir David's thieving
old servant
Lady IAohore, David's sister. was a
wicked and a very plain-spoken woman.
and the reader who does not believe Il II
referred to page 1893. We are very sorry
for the locution on page $40. You whom
some blind madness has kept whispering
TO me was to be my love- but these little
matters viii creep in. There were many
troubles, but all was well at last. when "a
hnor took a hasty step or two and then
stood, hands outstretched. And David
saw her. with shaft Of yellow light s,rik-
ing her white forehead and flaming In her
enaureolsd hair. poised in lovely waiting
for his welcome
We say again tina, the reader will he well
satisfied An unusually good story. We
wish that q nurnDer Of famous and i'm
portAnt' stories which Il has b~en our lot
10 read might have bren half as good.
Moro nsesilscsisss u ssssmsrck.
Mr. Sidney whhn.An's 'Penonsi hsmi-
nl.o-nsas II Prince Bismarck ID Apple,on
4 Col are Interesting rather Than novel
or important. They relate small fsss and