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his sad, reverie haunted eyes, his dark unor-
dered attire, and his indefinable distinction of
demeanor Qn spite of almost stunted
stature), he suggested some figure from the
pages of Petrarch or Ariosto Then, again. the
singular beauty of his voice added another
touch Of enchantment, as standing before
great picture OF Lith he recited his own de-
scriptive lines. revealing himself in the dual
attributes of painter and poet. . AS we
passed from dusky chamber to chamber the
medieval figure leading, and only breaking the
found melancholy one began to wonder whether
one was still in the vital world or in some
haunted domain Of ruined love and shattered
hopes" The poet as we know, had some tastes
which were not altogether ethereal, without
being a gourmand (as Sigma" puts it, He was
constitutiOnally unable to appreciate plain diet
There is amusing little glimpse here of
dinner at the house of Leonard Valpy the law
yer, who was a persistent purchaser OF Ros-
settrs pictures. The dinner was a Spartan one
OF thin pea soup. cold boiled beef and roly-poly
pudding-a fearful concoction. this last, deadly
thing of preternatural stodginess. Rossettrs
normal melancholy deepened into positive
gloom"
cannot recollect his uttering a syllable dur
ing the whole Of dinner at which he sat like one
of the figures at the banquet in Holman
Hunts picture Of isabella and the Pot of
Basil" Valpy seemed quite unconscious of Of
fence, and to him persistently plying Ros-
setti with lypoly." which the poet painter as
persistently refused in ever more deeply ac-
centuated tones Of weary detection, was mex
pressibly comic
The humor OF the situation does not suffer
from the fact that Stigma" has mixed up"
Holman Hunts picture with Millaiss Lorenzo
and Isabella" -.--
Many of these "reminiscences have a flavor Of
Understanding which is generally insep
arabic from such gossipings. He gives to
understand that Jowett was far too fond Of
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running after the great of the earth, and dwells
on the same tendency which he observed In
Robert Browning: HE was by no means given
to making the least of his intimacy with mem
bers of the nobility whose names and titles
came floating across the dinner table with quite
unnecessary articulateness." Browning's adj
mission that he intended to represent Words
worth in THE Lost Leader was extorted
Sigma" says, by himself, and he quotes the
younger poet as saying that he had since re-
GREETED it, Thackeray the gOssiper never knew
but that does not deter him from expressing
opinions which that lack Of acquaintanceshio
renders valueless, and he tells concerning the
novelist, a number of stories of hoary and tot
tering age and threadbare familiarity His as
sertiOn that Thackeray would have written n
superb history Of the French Revolution we
need not quarrel with. but few people will agree
with him that Trollopes "Barchester Towers
and "Framley Parsonage 0rue as they are to
English life Society novels superior to
"Pendennis" and 1.-THE NewComes" He con-
cedes that of all TTollope's imaginary char
acters the civil servant is the only one thor
Oughly well known to him: He was once asked
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by friend of mine. the wife OF a church dig
nitary, whence he derived his material for his
wonderful novel, 'Barchester Towers and, to
her amazement, he soemnly assured her that
when he wrote it he not acquainted with a
single cathedral dignitary." What the author
calls a parallel example of unerrlng instinct he
records of the dramatist Tom Robertson. A
friend asked him how he had managed to write
his comedies of fashionable life. adding that he
presumed Robertson must have lately found
his way into really first rate society. My dear
SIR Robertson replied. you may not perhaps
believe me. but I never stayed in a great house
except once and that was for a single night to
arrange some theatricals. when | dined in the
housekeeper's room.'" 1t must not be forgotten
in absorbing this story that the author of
Caste" had very lively sense of humor.
Swinburne is represented here as attacking
Tennyson's poetry wholesale, with almost fren-
zied bitterness" and exclaiming after read
ing aloud OF Christina Rossettfs poems:
by -! That's one of the finest things ever
written" At this time the poet of 'languors
and lilies" writing novel which he has
not given to the world and which was inter
spersed with lyrics-One with a highwayman
note, which began:
Some die singing, some die swinging
Some die high on tree.
house of his friend Howell, and he notes that
Swinburne arriving had prolonged alter
cation with his cabman, who eventually
snatched up his reins and drove rapidly off.
If glad to get away"
..I-he poets got the best of il as usual"
drawled Howell (who had been gleefully watch
ing the scene). "He lives at the British Hotel
in Cockspur- st, and never goes anywhere ex-
cent in hansoms, which, whatever the distance,
he invariably remunerates with one shilling
consequently, when. to-day, it's case OF
two miles beyond the radius, there's the devils
own row; but in the matter OF imprecation the
noet Is more than a match for cabby. who after
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STORIES ABOUT SPENCER.
Professor Dicey's RecOIiectioHs Of the Phi-
lOSopher.
From The Nineteenth Century.

From The Nineteenth Century.
NV old friend the late Sir Edgar Boehm told
me that on some occasion he went into the bill
lard room lof the Athen8um CluoI ana there
caught sight of a member-I believe Mr.. Mas
kelyne-who was a singularly handsome man
with a classical Greek profile. Upon inquirins
what the name Of the member might be, he w't5
told by a young waiter that it was Mr.. Herbert
Spencer Thereupon Sir Edgar arranged with .
common friend to ascertain if Mr. Spencer woull
like have his features represented IN il'trp,c-
and if So to arrange for a meeting. When the
meeting took place, and the sculptor caught
sight of the real Herbert Spencer, his astohlsh-
ment knew bounds. II you could CONCEIVE
human form and face i'll adapted as model ior
a sculptor it was that of Mr.. Spencer In the
most delicate way Sir Edgar tried 10 lhtillaIs
to the philosopher the tnsuperable dlitlculues ol
the task he had offered to perform. But all ms
ARGUMENTS were useless. Mr. Spencer TOOK ms
stand upon the ground that he had been request.
ed To allow n bust of himself to be MADE tiiit
he had agreed to the proposal ana that ne III
tended to insist upon the execution of the prom
Use. 49,, ,t
extreme narrowness of his means, who adnilrel
his extraordinary energy under the most ut
pressing circumstances. and VINO were aHNl"HA
10 relieve his embarraSSments, agreed TO pun
Iish n complete edition of his works ana 10 pay
hin n suIarv for editing the volumes and seeing
them through the press which Woulu, WIN NJ
simple tastes keep him in comfort during hiI
advancing years. After some few volumes ma
been published, the signatories of the aSIeeiei.,
who were all personal friends, round the COS
~ publication far exceeded the amount anticl-
Dated and suggested to Mr.. Spencer that the
pubIication should be suspended, ana that, not
withstanding this, their engagement with mn
should remain as heretofore. But to any shS-
gestion of this kind Mr. Spencer apsoluteiS ~
fused to listen He informed his friends thae
they had made contract, and that ne must IN
est on it's rigid execution. There is SoInethlhP
rcauv heroic about an author who believed 81
iynniicitIy i'm the value of his work, and was
SO prepared to subordinate all perSOhdl consul
erations to the perpetuation of its memory
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corrupt epoch Of French social life, would not
unnaturally be obliged to play the game as
prohigate court played it If he wanted to sue
coed Though we cannot blink the fact that he
was mocker from his cradle, a being who
came into the world without the faculty of
reverence in his makeup, and therefore was
quite ready to adjust himself to the evil atmos-
phere Of his time, it is equally impossible to
avoid the reflection that he would have been, in
different environment a different man. AS il
s, Voltaire, for all that he advocated liberty in
he midst OF a despotic regime remains very
ypical Of his age.
This il is quite much as his fascinating
Individuality, that gives Miss Tallentyre her
pportunity. She has man to portray for
hose every hour he himself provides an cpl
'ram OF some other interesting achievement;
ut she has also to deineate a host of perform
3 in a comedy which he dominated and at the
me time could not claim as entirely his own
is the comedy Of manners that was played by
.uthOrs and statesmen, high born adventures
nd powerful mobiles eccesiastics and kings, all
lboring under a kind Of febrile excitement and
il bent upon securing as much pleasure, SEN
al and Intellectual the days could be made
to yield. They intrigued and wrote, and talked
above all, they lakeland as it was criminal
be bore the 1ttest survived and the social
lovement rushed in a whirI of often
thoughtful, more often indecorous, and always
witty conversation. What is it that these
,olumes tell US? That Voltaire filed a long life
With literary laboEs, that he poured forth poetry
nd prose, light satire and sober history and
hat his contemporaries read his books or wit
messed performances of his dramas with vary
d g appreciation The author leaves untouched
none of the events which colored his experience;
she deals at sufficient length with Rohan's
scurvy treatment Of him, his visit to England
his long affair with Nine. du Chatelet, his
troubled relations with Frederick the Great, his
sojourn at Ferney, and his final acceptance by
his countrymen with all pomp and circum-
stance, their greatest writer. But somehow
the book remains to enjoy chiefly a col
lection Of flashlights upon social epoch, a
mine Of episodes and anecdotes. One Of the
titles that have been bestowed upon VOltaire is
that Of Inn Keeper for Europe" All the
celebrities OF his day pass through the pages of
his biography they passed through his rooms
at Ferney, and what he did. what he actually
wrote and published, is not interesting-at
least In a book like this one-than are the
things which he and his friends-or enemies
had to say to one another in age when the
art of saying things art by itself.
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Blue ROSES.

Blue roses signify an ideal impossible OF at
tainment)
FROM The Pail Mall Gazette
Red roses. for the crowning
OF the burning hearts desire.
A-sway in the south winds breath;
White roses, for the drowning
OF life's last pickering fire
In the cold gray floods of death.
But blue roses, deeply strewn,
For the feet Of the Vision thrilling
That never never, meath sun or moon,
Shall come to its fair fulfilling.
When all the red is faded
From the passionate lips OF love-
And the last rich petals fall:
When all the white is shaded
BY the black wings poised above,
BY the nights unlfting pail;
o blue rosesi not till then,
At the golden heavens embrasure,
The eyes and the hands OF earthworn men
Shall gather your glory OF azurel
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KEdTS'S LINE.
Mystery.

From The London Spectator.
Poetry is not only web Of the ideas and images
evoked by words; ii is also web of sound. a
system of echoes, not only in the obvious forms
Of rhyme and single alterations, but in subtler
sequences and variations r. i. Stevenson has
present instance, the chief sequence is PRL.
FRI, FRI, with variation of vowels. When
Keats had got so far as
OF seas in faery lands forlorn.
and was spying and listening for the image and
he ard, as the manuscript shows. the word keel
less" This gave fine romantic image, and in
ome ways fitted into the web Of sound. 1t
caught I'D the K sound with which easement
that had begun to sibilate in the same word. and
made IL more intense by stopping it against the
s Of seas" Moreover. in ''keelless seas" with
its repeated z sound. he had a parallel to the
repeated o Of opening" and foam" But this
effect not altogether happy and the word
stuck instead OF running Then, as he turned
IL over, the in "keelless" began to assert itself,
and to call to the rest OF its group in what fol-
lows. and partly in what had gone before, for he
had already played +, p T in "ofttimes," open
half Of 'keelless." were to remain, but or T,
and r, were called for. Then the word shone
out, romantic still in suggestion but
doubly magical because Of this group OF sounds
In il. PeRiLous p was better than the aspi-
rated labial F, because f is twice given in what
follows. and is already present in of" Thus
We get
negIecting minor echoes. And the vowel Sc
quence from the close novels in "perilous' to
the opener in 'faeTy lands" and the opener still
IN "fororn," the word that at once rhymes, and
concludes this inner chain of sound, gives per-
feet variation upon the consonant group.
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Il BOOK OF GOSSIP.
Ghmpses Of English Celebrities.
PERsoNALIA. INTIMATE RECOLLECTION
OF FAMOUS MEN, POLITICAL. LITERARY
ARTISTIC, SOCIAL. VARIOUS. BY Sigma
limo, PIP. S24. Doubleday, Page & Co
PERSONALLY.

This volume OF gossip concerning numerous
English celebrities Of the last century is a
sprightly piece of work, done with an afr of
personal knowledge which may or may not be
justified. brief preface launches n warning
jeer at those who disposed to look for chest
nuts among the fruits Of the anecdOte tree, but
it must be said that even the quite unpractsed
readers who dwell beyond the radius of omnis-
cience" will come upon some of these stories
with hilarious "Well met, old Truepenny'
Among Signals" trustworthy bits of por-
traiture is a vignette of ROssetti, whom he
visited in the quiet, dim old Chelsea house which
suggested TO him some medieval palazzo. The
man himself he says. was equally aoof from
the age With his sombre, olive-shaded face,
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hve minutes Of II, gallops Off as though he had
been rated by Beelzebub himself"
Swnburne swearing violently at a half paid
caoman, is as unpoetic a figure as Rossetti
sorrowing under the intolerabIe offer of cold
"roly-poly' pudding. Concerning another Eng.
lsh poet, Byron, Sigma" quotes some gossip
from one who knew good deal behind the
scenes. 1t is to the effect that at the time
of Byron's death some of his intimate friends
strongly suspected that he had expedited his
departure hence. Certainly l know" adds the
author' from statement of his own I'm an
unpublished letter that year or two before
ne hau not only contemplated but actually
fiiaue' MS preparations for suicide, and the dis
appointing turn which events in Greece were
rapidly taking lends some color to the suspicion
above alluded to-"
Politicians shine feeby as authors in these
pages Disraeli appears in a particularly I'M
pleasant light.
For my first fact concerning him was in
deDted TO an old gentleman who a school
Fellow Of Disraeli's at his second school. a pri-
waite seminary in the north east of London,
ana my infOrmants chief recollection of the
future Premier was in connection with his lack
or Veracity, which he declared was painfully
conspicuous. | rather gathered, however that
thls was not so much culpable untruthfunes5
as an Oriental prOclivity for rOmancins and OF
'embroidering,' which to the ordinary British
boy is far less venial than the common "bung"
But the veteran declined to discuss fine dis
tlnctons. contenting himself with the emphatic
avowal that Dizzy was the biggest liar in the
school. and indeed that he had ever known"
Disraeli's generation for rank and riches,
coupled with Eastern proclivity for pay
ing eXtravagant compliments, gained him." says
the story teller, "a reputation for serviIity which
he was far from deserving"
Women. especially pretty ones he thought fit
to address in the most inflated style Of flattery,
of which great and very beautiful lady
related to a friend of mine the following in
stance: On some occasions she happened to
sit next to Lord BeacOnSfeld at dinner and
raising her wine glass to her lips was much
disconnected by the marked and deliberate man
arm-a feeling of embarrassment which de-
velOped into one very much akin to disgust
when a sepulchural voice murmured in her ear,
"Canova"' The compliment probably OF the
type which he had found particularly welcome
in the saloons Of Lady Blessington, but TO a
beauty of fastidious refinement it is not sur
prisng that such "horidty" was far from pal
atabe.
There has been good deal OF gossip AMI
speculation about the authorship of this volume
Some one tried to father it upon Sir George
Douglass but that ascription has been dscred-
tied Except as II serves to titillate curiosity
and thereby assist the fortunes Of the book
the question is of no consequence whatever. for
these pages have personal quality or charm
Any clever journalist might have compiled
them-say some facile raConteur like the late
Albert Vandam, author Of AN Englishman in
Paris" whose amusing patchworks are recalled
by this collection of anecdotes.
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4 COLD WINTER.

From The London Outlook.
A fifteenth century Ms. contains the following
representation:
VI Crystmas day the Fryday be,
The fyrste Of wyEter harde shalbe.
With froste and snowe and with fioGe,
But the Taste ende thereof US goode.
Agayn the somer shalbe good also
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