The sun., 1904-06-12

PalgrRvs, then Pfofessor ,of Poetry NJ
Oxford, who prooeeded. for the space OF
three-q quarters -6f an hour to discourse
upon poetry. We are told that the whole
discourse, II q somewhat too emphatic
or too festive expression was barred, might
have been delivseed, In lecture room at
Oxford. Grant Duff was not IsiirpriBod
to ind that Palgrave put Tennysoi aboye
all the poets 9f theh time, but he notes
that, below Tennyson, and In q line witheach
other. Palgraye put Browning, Matthew
Arnold. and, strange to say Barnes. the
Dorsetshire post. All other contemporary
or recent slnsers he placed fer lovet than
Iunoh,nsa Z ir,iah. III, III, ii. Bi.lsp Il D.nry in
July. is02, our diaTht INST Philips Broeks,
then Dishep OF Massachusetts, Who, he
recalls. bad come to sec him a. Madras
with letter from George Bunseh Brooks's
enunoiatAon IA private conversation had
at that time, we are told. mona Of tho pain
full rspidity which our author had formerly
observed. Brooks mentioned that Matthew
Arnold, bsfore Delivering hiG Lecture On
Emersop at Boston,, had said 10 him: ~
only trust. that may get through the flrst
half Of It without being torn to pieces.
Sure enough, large portion OF the audience
was greatly scandalized by the reserves
made In what Grant Dun deems Arnold's
too high appreciation Of their follow town.
men and sdored philosopher. ..'r' :"
One aftefn6on when 1t Athens in July,
1904, our author drove out. BY the Sacred
Way, to Elsusis, and saw the much. ruined
remains Of its famous temple, which re-
Gently had bean uncovered and explored.
A~kl - nA fvraU
msnts without end are left. but Alsrio
and his Goths did their work thoroughly,
and nothing survives that can throw the
slightest light upon the Mysteries. Grant
Dun thought less about them, he says,
than about the ancient legend Of the place
which Matthew Arnold used % admirably
in his poem on the death Of Arthur Stanley:
The boy his nurse forgot. 49, -
And bore mortal lot: -.
Long since his nAIne u heard on Garth no moro.
In some chance battle on Cyth0ron dds
The nurslne o9 the Mighty Mother died,
And went where all his fathers went before
Going to confirmation at st. Paul's.
where TerpCls, ,stlen; Bishop Of London,
afterward Atyhbishop. Of Canterbury. off,
ciated. our author notes that OF all the
Balliol scholan Of Ills dAy. Temple had
gone furthest, so far as the attainment Of
great plsce IA the world u conoerped. Colo
ridge, no .doubti occupied q larger space
in the ,eys d the world than TSmple but
in Grant Du6's opinion. the Bishop q Lon
don ranked far above the Lord Chief Justice
He kdds that Matthew Arnold and Clough,
although their fame Win outlive that Of all
the others by long ages, never had any
thing Of what's gUnsidered worldly suo-
cess. In November 1885, our diasist had
Matthew ,Arnold's, letters, read through
to him. Those which were printed filled
nearly eight hundred pages. Tho i'm
mer,se majority Of them, wes addressed
to members of his family. Outside Of 1t,
his chief correspondent wis Lady de Roths-
child. Grant Dun found It very Interest
ing to recogniEe In some Of them tbs pvyyI
pensi,ri for .poems, q. for. .inS6pca, for to
lines about CarpAo in two lstters, one 70
his wife, one to his mother. dated sth May.
1885, -
va ... I.,' = W.T.. ~ nv,
Grant Dur irecordsin his ciiA1y on March
8, 1894, that .aponget others. VIA .dined
hcre to-day was Goldwin Smith, who has
been In England some little time. He
mentioned IN the course Of the evening
that he had TALKED with Lord Sidinouth,
who was Prime Minister in 1901, but long
survived his public career..., Mr. John
Murray, who was also at'the dinner, said
that he supposed hls father was The only
person recently alive who could say that
he had seen. and oonversed with. Goethe,
Byron and Sir Waiter Scott. He recalled
also, a. curious link with the past, that
the grandfather Of Capt. Maude. who died
In Onslow Square in 1887. was born before
the restoration Of Charles IL On March
20 Of the s&nie year our author andhis wife
drove from York House to Clermont to
dino with tho Duchess Of Albany. Gold
win Smith was also Of the party. sCouversa-
ton turned to the desperate aehtink OF the
American civil war. Goodwin Smith pointed
out that in the first battle Of the Wilder
ness no fewer than 10000 men were put
hors de combat The diary proceeds: He
Goodwin SMITH spent o good deal Of time
in Gen. Grants camp and saw, enough to
speak very unexpectedly Iof the effect OF
shells, more respectfully Of round shot,
especially when they rebound. wonder
II I ever noted the story that made him
Goodwin SMITH tell tonight Of, Q long. hot
journey in the interior Of an siipuven from
Hamm to Hanover. which sextorted from
his companion, John Conington, then in
the heyday Of his .radicalisn, the despair
ing ejaculation: Well. thi, Is wors, than
an hereditary sristocracyr He lGoldwin
SMITH had known Mr., Patterson, the son
of King Jerome by, his American wife, and
said that he was q thorough Corsican. with
all the violent nature Of his race"
Meeting Charles Parker one day In June,
1895. our author talked with him about
Goodwin Smith, and Parker, quoted notable
thing which he had heard the former Pro-
fessor OF Modern History at Oxford say.
Some one was speaking with great regret
Of the dissppearanoe Of much that was
beautiful in the medieval order. "You
can't" said Ooldwin Smith, "have all ivy
and no wall!' Under date Of Nov. Q, 1895,
we read in the diary: Finished a, bright
little book by Goodwin Smith about Oxford.
intended chiefly for American consumption.
It contains, OF course, little that ia un-
familiar TO me, but not nothing. did not
know, for example. that the statutes Of
Corpus had been 80 filed, As they would
appear TO be, with the spirit Of the English
Renaissaroe--'thst. gray dawn which, as