New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-25

book I advise him. however, to let wen alone.
It was a mournful thing for FitzGerald and !
for Bernard Barton's daughter that their |
friends counsel not taken We presently /
find Donne writing to Fanny Kernble in the vein |
OF de Seyigne, announcing the marriage Of la |
Grande haoemoiselle that Fitz is actually to be |
Benedick. the married He adds concern |
ing Lucy Barton. who q year younger than |
FITZGERALD: In respect that she is tan and well |
filed out Charles Is wont to call her Barton |
Barton, conceiying, suppose, that Baden Baden |
means deuble-Baden- However, though there |
be much Of her, 1t is SO much good, and as she
and Edward have been intimate friends for at
least a quarter of a century, and she has great
reverence for him. i not clear, though I
have been as incredulous Thomas and full
Of denial as Peter. but that both have consulted
and concluded wisely Though the pair had
been friends Iong-and though FitxGerald
was actUated by the gentlest sympathy in pro-
viding BY marriage for the poor old maiden left
penniless her fathers death-matrimony
brought discord. Another letter from Donne to
Fanny KeTble shows how difficult a person
FitzGerald must have been for unloved wife
TO live with:
terrace for months much to Hy delight, fer he is
within reach, much to his discontinue, for the
ward or the wild beasts lin the Geological Car
paper of his Sitting room is dark. indeed an in
visible green the windows are narrow: and he
preted means his wife, looks this chamber of |
OF Benedicks our friend. He talks like Blue
6eaTa s2 Te sdi nsg efT ahf mind
have however. so much confidence in him that |
Lucy. and SO much confidence IN Lucy as to be-
Meve shell! tame Petrgchio. swagger as he list |
your account quoth she .fof Edward FftzGer- |
at if waE his wi WIFE mo- should not like him
to play a, being bored by me. / think my wonn-
ans Toaf xa11li aft hat NV M
ans folly at Beng called i' the cohtenporafy
year or so later Dome describes what he |
calls the pleasant but net proper situation Of
his friends in Norfolk with E f. G. rusticating |
IN great ease and comfort, and Lucy, or, as her /
husband then called her, 1.-The elder" also rust-
eating a few miles away. Some months after |
Dorne tells Mrs. Kembie that FITZGERALD lis |
now gone On a visit of three four days to his |
elder elias contemporary alias Mrs. E. f. G.
II happens that his brother Johns wife re- !
Edes in the same part of Kent with his Cd |
wHrd-o elder. preferring, ii seems. the charge
Of lunatic to abiding with her husband! There
Is another lady i'm the same neighborhood
dwelling under somewhat similar circumstances: |
IN short one friend describes the locality as a
kind Of park, where elders turned out to
grace" Dome ceases to write Of this unhap- |
py marriage as fine translator Of Omar" returns
more and more to the recluse ways Of his bach
elorhood "1 have not been well and We're
growing Old" iaments Fitz after while lis
time to think of curling oneself up like Dog
about to lie down. Had 1 worked as you have
done should have given way years and years
ago: but like a selfish Beast have kept out of
obligations and sacrifices" One Of the most
welcome passages in the letters from F1tzGer-
aid TO Dome is that in which he refers to his
brief calendar of the life of Charles Lamb
dear Fellow:
hesitated at expatiating the terrible
year 1886 or even mentioning the Drink in 1884,
hut he frst G necessary to show what a SAINT
and Hero the man was; and only Noodle would
fail to understand the Drink, etc, which never
hiri saint ChaTlest'' said T'hackeray, one day
taking VI. enc his Letters and putting it to MS
Forehead
Dome and FITZGERALD had many points OF
Agreement In taste. Both, for example, were
devoted TO Scotts novels who is the best
Novelist don't know" wrote the latter, but
know that Sig Walter is delightful to me-" And
II is related Of Donne in his last days that. long
after the power to read 1t had passed, he would
n. with one OF SCOTS books in his hands finger
ing II lovingly
George Borrow another friend of Donne
and the two walked together round Bury St
Edmunds fell in with gypsies and heard the
speech of Egypt -Borrow's face lighted by
the red turf fire Of the tent, says Dome, was
Of