New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17

fans. md Nike romantic hitter. Creevey had
q hearty liking for Mrs. F1tzherbert; she was.
he declared the best hearted and most discreet
human being that ever was. to be without a
particle OF talent
King Georges successor was while Duke Of
Clarence most heartily abused by Creevey, and
even after he became King was jeered at as
our beloved Billy. We find quoted. however
pleasant saying Of the King about that Lady
Wellesley who was. before her marriage. Miss
Cation Of Philadelphia Somebody at court asked
the American lady: do you come from that
part OF America where they guess and where
ley calculator Whereupon King Billy
: omptly said: Lady Wellesley comes from
'ere they fascinated" This was unusual
rightlness in William " whose court was
e dullest OF his time. An evening at Windsor
as misery Of tedium. stiff little Queen AIDE
aide knitting in silence, the King sleeping and
occasionally waking for the purpose of saying
Exactly so, ma'amF and then sleeping again"
Eighteen-year-old Queen Victoria charmed the
elderly courtier, though he tells his stepdaugh-
ter that "a more homely little being you never
beheld, when she is at her ease, and she is evil
IDENTIFY dying to be always She laughs
In real earnest, opening her mouth wide as ii
can 60 showing not very pretty gums. =.
She eats quite as heartily she laughs. 1 think
may say she gobbes. She bushes and
laughs every instant in so natural a way as to
3isarm anybody. Her voice is perfect. and so
Is the expression of her face when she means to
say do pretty thing"
When Waterloo fought Creevey liv
ing temporarily in Brussels with his family. and
his journal of that time is an interesting por-
ton OF these volumes. He visited the battle
field, he shared in the excitement and uncer
tainty OF the Bruxellois and he had various
interviews with his friend Wellington. The
dukes description OF the battle Is not calcu-
lated to please the Kaiser. 1T has been
damned nice thing" he said to Creevey-"the
nearest run thing you ever In your life
Blucher lost IA 900 on Friday night, and got so
damnably licked could not find him On Sat
urday morning; so / was obliged to fall back to
keep up [regainl my communications with him
Creevey praises cordially the deneanor Of the
duke: nothing" he says. could do a conqueror
more honor than his gravity and seriousness at
the loss Of life he had sustained. his admission
Of his great danger, and the justice he did his
enemy" The continued effort to rehabnitate
Sir Hudson Lowe gives point to Wellington's
Characterization Of Lowe as a So fool. no
was constantly trying to instruct and NEEDLE
with the general in command He SO vexed
Wellington in Brussels that the general wrote
home and complained and the government took
the man away. With his usual accompaniment
of sulphurous words Wellington asserted that
the means employed to keep Bonaparte at St
Helena We're absurd He had himself carefully
examined the island and found that mere
handful of would make inaccessible the
few places at which escape was possible.
Creevey's great success was a Of
society. To the last day Of his jolly life he was
a diner-out for whom London hostesses clam
ored. and who was hattered and thanked. as he
went away. for having made the occasion gilt
ter. Even "Old Madagascar" he called inso-
lent Lady Holland, took the trouble to be ami
able to him. His wit did not suffer from the
gross habits INDUCED in by most Of the other
public Of his time in England-the "swill-
ing and stufing" which. Sir Herbert Maxwell
reminds us. must have Slapped all but the most
robust constitutions. There is much mention OF
eating and drinking In these letters. but their
authors ninble thinking and high spirits testify
TO rare self-restraint. He was something more
than agreeable rattle, though indeed no saint,
his editor frankly lets know. These vol
umes, should add. admirably edited The
many footnotes notably brief and to the
point, and the index is a model