The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-20
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Naseby:
He looks round the old home. sThe
Woolleys;" hobanobs with Watchams,
John Linnet (whose daughter Sarah is
welrD. the blacksmith, who is a great
repertory Of tradition respecting the bat
tie, and understands 1t as well as If he
had traied pike there her and the aged
shall. He dimes also with Ringrose the
carpenter Naseby is full of Ringroses;
hears Miss Ringrose play the piano; visits
sils; writes to John Allen, 81 am quite
the king here, I promise you; and makes
a sensation in church with magnificent
did colors), which not only. astonished
Naseby, but afterward proved the theme
of infinite jest among his friends. Most
memorable event of all, however, he
Elizabethan flavor entitled THE Meadows
in Spring" The poet begins with refer
ences to the amenities Of winter
When such time cometn,
do retire
Into old room
Beside the bright fire.
He then goes on to tell us how he reads,
smokes and talks to a friend, whilst
nought passes between them "save a
brown Jug but when the clouds part and
spring comes
I Jump UP like mad,
Break the old pipe in twain,
And away to the meadows,
The meadows again.
The true Fitz Gerald is portrayed
here, the idler and the poet When
he was not dawdling in the country he
was foregathering in London with
SPEEDING, Thackeray, Tennyson and
few other choice friends. To one mem
at all .c,fix a1x
reference has hitherto been made. OF
w. Kenworthy Browne the author has
much to say, all going to show that he
was one of the best loved Of FitZ Ger
AIDS friends. Browne, indeed, appears
to have been the Phidippus Of "Eu
phranor," which book Mr.. Wright goes
so far as to describe as simply and
solely a Qualification" of him. Women
as well as men entered into F1tz Ger
AIDS life. and, in fact, with one Of the
friends of his earlier years, Caroline
Matilda Crabbe, he is asserted to have
fallen deeply in love, but his traits re-
main from beginning to end those of
born bachelor. Wherever he made his
home, he insisted upon being as I'M
tidy as he chose. Everything had to
be precisely as he chose to have 1t.
Mr.. Wright Is too affectionate BIZ
ographer to see it, but we cannot help
have often felt before and have more
than once pointed out in the Tribune,
that FitZ Gerald was SelfShnesS incar-
nate 1t is true that he knew how to
be kindness itself, and. was not only
quick to give, but always ready to say
the right word at the right moment.
Nevertheless, he lived for himself II
ever a man did; it was OF his own COM
fort that he was always thinking. Mr..
Wright. rather irnpertinently, as it
seems to us, traverses With some detail
the story of. F1tz Gerald's marriage,
giving us to understand that If Miss
Lucy Barton had not held her friend
too rigidIy to what she considered an
enga gement the two would never have
plunged into unhappiness together. He
is sound enough, however, in his sum-
ming UP Of the unfortunate experiment,
part Of which runs as follows:
A very fed days suff1ced to reveal that
they were totally untitled for each other
Mrs. Fitz Geralds prim, method1cal, 1uSSy,
masterful nature. and her fondness Ior
with the Gurneys (she could see no en-,
ioyment in dinner unless one dressed
for it)-soon discovered. themselves. TO
ventional, who had for SO long followed
his own sweet will, punctilious etiquette
and fastidious neatness in attire were,
above all things, hateful, It was as,n tne
he used to say, which contributed more
than anything else to drive him out OF
society He once said to friend, -allud-
ing to his disagreement with his wife:
sI could not be bothered with all those
Misunderstanding for this and dressing for
the other. I couldn't put up with It.
Then their differences of opinion on the
food question did not tend to diminish
friction. While Fitz Gerald was prac-
tically a vegetarian, and liked the little
meat he did eat "home DONE his wife
not only liked meat, but (to his horror
ion. almost as bad as cannibalism. That
difficulty, however, might have been got
over seeing that meat eating was not IN
respect to others regarded as casus
belli; but to exchange the plaid shawl In
which he loved to envelop, himself for an
was not even to be dreamed Of. Many
women, with a little tact, a little for
bearance, and quiet instead Of raSping
words, could have wound Fitz Gerald round
their finger. A fine opportunity of MAX
ing a happy marriage was here lost. He
or man. either, could force him. By con-
sidering him more, and outsiders less
outsiders, too, who counted for nothing,
she would have come to her kingdom.
We have recently quoted Mr..
Wrights story of how Fitz Gerald.
when walking in the street one day
with his sailor friend, Posi-" met
his wife, and just as they were about
to shake hands took flight in a kind of
terror from the scene. The incident
might be explained OH the hypothesis
of a momentary return Of the Fitz
Gerald madness but it seems more