Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-24

asked her what were the two finest
lines I'm the language. He answered
his own question by quoting from Son
dello page i5l Of the three-yolume edi-
ton OF Brownlng's works, London,
1869
As the klng.blrd with ages on his
pumea
Travels to die in his ancestral glooms.
Another poet who exercised the strong
est influence upon Swinburne was Ros-
settl, Speaking Of the friendship be-
tween them, W. j. Stillman has writ
ten in his Autobiography Of Journals
ist." II have heard Swinhurne say
that but for Rossettl's early poetry he
would never have written verses; but
this, | think, must be taken conditions
ally. Swinburne has the poetic tens
permanent 50 decided and so Individual,
and his musical quality 30 exalted, thar
II was impossible that he should not
have shown II al some time but II IL
possible that Rossettl furnished the
spark that actually fdled the FIRE
Perhaps Swlnbufne himself cannot
trace the vein to It's hidden sources
and COMPOUNDED the mastery Of Rosset-
It's temperament and the personal mag
netlsm he exercised on those who came
into those relations with him with an
intellectual stimulus which, strictly
speaking, Rossettl did not exercise, He
was too specialized, too exclusively ar
tlstic IN all his developments, to carry
much intellectual weight. and Swim
burne was more fully developed In the
purely intellectual man; but the warm
est friendship existed between them
often saw Swinburne at Cheyne Walk,
and when they were together the paint
er's was certainly I've dominant per-
sonality, 10 which SWlnburne's attitude
was that Of an affectionate younger
brother"
VIII Irwin co-author with Gelett
Burgess OF "The Reign Of Queen Isyl'
and "Tho Picaroons," Is an almost ldo-
latrous worshiner OF animals. During
his life he has had almost every kind Of
pet, from a white mouse to a COW. His
dearest animal chum was n black cat
who. from her prowling, thieylsh hab-
It's was given the name "Plcaroon,"
which served later as the title for the
last Burgess-lrwin book The Plea
room was a great inspiration 10 Mr..
Irwin during his writing and used TO
always sit by the typewriter and play
with the rubber eraser that hung from II
by string Mr. Irwin, when he came
east n few months ago, was Obliged
10 leave Plcaroon behind IN San Fran.
cisco. Only q few days ago he received
heaft-breaklng telegram telling OK
Picaroons untlmely death aud he de-
clares the demise OF his fayorlte has
robbed him Of all desire to write.
In O discussion which has been going
on as 20 the supposed ind OF new
poem by Charles Lamb. there seems to
me 10 be too great a readiness 20 de-
eide against It's claims says Walter
Jerrold I'm the academy. The piece In
question Is cntltcd "Dlck Strype, OF,
the Force OF Habit, a Tale by Timothy
Bramble." and II appeared In the Morn
ing Post OF Jan. g. 1902 The urine evil
dence In favor Of Lambs authorship Ia
sentence In q letter which he wrote
10 John Hickman dan. II, 1909, In
which he said referring to his conneu.
ton with the Morning Post. II shall
only do paragraphs. with now and Their
a slight poem, such as Dick Stripe II
you read Il. which was but long
Eplgram." on the other side Il has been
pointed out that In one OF several an.
thologles published about the middle OF
the century under the title Of "Casket
Of Gems" the lines are credited to one
Charles Westmacott The evidence In
favor OF Westmaoott IL no stronger
than that IN favor OF Lamb. The edl-
tor Of the "Caskett took the piece from
q volume published IN 1923 with the
title points OF Misery; or. Fables for
Mankind. Prose and Verse Chiefly
Original. BY Charles WestmAott" az
Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank). There
IN nothing 70 differentiate the original
from the borrowed items-except In one
instance ,hnt Of an article almost bodi-
~ lifted from a magazine Of few
months earlier-and ! feel convinced
that dick Strype' was among the lat.
ter. There are \ few slight changes
made from the Morning Post version;
half dozen toploally pointed lines are
omitted. the line And cursd Rebecca"
Is altered 20 And scolded of Rebel :
CO." while the name OF the tobacoonist
referred to becomes "Wlshart" instead
OF "klrkman." In the omitted lines are
satirlc references 10 Pitt and Wilber-
force. both Of whom Lamb referred TO
In another letter as public and fair
game have been unable TO ascertain
the date OF Westmncott's DEATH or to