The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-18

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yond tho Tweed A late as March. iSK
the Duke wrote that with regard to 'wavs,'
Icy I can hardly prevail upon myself to be-
come Interested in o prose narrative OF tina,
kind. When I do read fiction 1 like n in
verse; Three years later Hallam, the his-
torian, tells his correspondent. Lord WshL
Seymour, that Rob Roy has not been plaoed
by our London critics on a footing with Ehe
former novels. Il IL more uniform; Their.
are no such dull parts - In Guy Mannerinv,
or 'The Antiquary,' but on the othe- hand
it never rises 70 the merit OF either Of thsae
In their best passages. None OF the char
acters is very good, but they would seem
better II they did not remind us of formw
delineations by the same hand, 80 tina,
Scott IL only excelled by himself"
In isas some odd impressions OF the United
States were conveyed 70 the Duke Of somsr.
set by the Hon. Mrs. Robert Bruce, who
was then sojourning in Canada. Did
your Grace know" she asks, that Mr.
Polk, the late President Of the United
States, who died the other day OF cholera.
had never been baptized till an hour before
his deathl His mother, whom he de-
scribed TO be q strict Presbyterian, never
seems TO have thought Of it, and though.
he said, when he became President he
several times intended to go through thu
ceremony he never had time 20 spare for
it, The other incident related by Mrs.
Bruce was mentioned to her, she says. "bv
some gentlemen Just returned from New
Orleans, where IL appears the pigs have
been superabundant this year, and it is 40
difficult to keep them in hot weather that
they actually use these unhappy animals
for fuel on board the Mississippi stea mers.
One man told me he saw pig after pig thrown
into the fire and Of course, being very fat,
thew made a brilliant blaze" Mrs. Bruce
adds: sYour Grace may have heard. per
haps, that the pigs in the States are fed on
peaches. il being impossible even for Yam.
kee gluttony TO devour the forests full ~
this fruit which spread over their fertile
land
One OF the subjects that interested ths
eleventh Duke OF Somerset was that which
now bears the name OF -psychical research
He seems to nave left several manuscript
accounts OF dreams, visions and premo-
%nitions, some examples OF which are given
in the book before us. For instance, Sir
Stamford RaHies told h Duke that he
had had in the Fast a powerful enemy.
who, he apprehended, was coming to Java
10 give him much trouble. He mentioned
the apprehension to a lady with whom he
was well. acquainted. She told him that
he need be under no alarm, for he would
never see that man again. In course of
time news arrived that the man had per-
ished by shipwreck. Sir Alexander Johns
ton ~recounted that his mother on waking
one morning about Z O'Clock saw a Capt.
--IA-.sh m Hn WnnlnfAH 70 n uuNNnA
in his leg, but seemed "A If he could not
speak. She mentioned the incident and
set il down in writing. In course Of time
the news came Of his having been at that
time shot in the leg in an action and dying
In consequence Of a locked jaw. In March,
1927, a DR.. Ferguson related that Lady
William Russell dreamed that Lord Hastings
had put his arm round her and kissed her
and that she said to him: Dear uncle,
how cold you are'" Upon which he re-
piled. YES, l am cold, for I arr dead, and
the passage from this world to the next is
neither SO difficult nor so strange rs YOU
think it," II subsequently, turned out that
Lord Hastings had died in the Mediter-
ranean that very night, after talking Of
Lady William Russell and Of the change
he was about to undergo. The Duchess
OF Somerset said hat one evening as she
was walking with Lady Young in the pleas
ure ground at Huntercombe Lady Young
stopped suddenly with great animation
and surprise and asked her II she did not
see something. The Duchess said NO
and looked toward the spot at which Lady
Young pointed. Lady Young said it was her
mother and described where she passed, at
no great distance. She then said she was
convinced something had happened. The
post brought an account OF her mothers
death. Another well attested fact occurred
about 1870. The widow Of a gentleman OF
landed property in Devonshire died at an
advanced age, leaving two unmarried
daughters, no longer young. They knew
that their mother intended them TO inherit
all her property, but after her decease could
nowhere find her will, title deeds or any
Of the papers requisite for giving them
lawful possession. About a fortnight after
the mothey's death one Of the sisters awoks
the other, who always slept in the sans
room, and told her that she had just had
q dream In which their mother had ap-
peared to her and expressed her surprise
that she and her sister should have for
gotten her mentioning to them many years
before that her will and other pspers were
deposited in such and such a closet in the
attic and that the key Of the closet was put
in a spot which she also designated. The
sisters deferred making any search till
the morning, but when they did they
foundt the key and papers precisely in the
situation revealed to one Of them in the
dream. We note. finally. that in February!
1924. a Mr.. Law recounted at the Duke
Of Somerset's table that he had been a.
school with one Of Mr.. Perceval's sons,
This son had a dispute with another boy
and said to him, Your father 10 killed in
SPAIN upon which the other replied. 20.
but your father Is killed in the House OF
Commons" This incident took place about
S o'clock in the afternoon. As a matter Of
fact, Mr.. Perceval was killed in the House
of Commons at that time.