The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-26

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aIIs Tomorrow fnf ynur wofli' And
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i.,t informs 'ftrar ilrrpe,t' inltlallyi a
sFif a,iia fpf your ppft ioafnuffow, ! SO
and I must say . word ~ two W Ne help
pome,, and Jopeph Afnould wefe chief
among Tho early friends ~ browning, and
tho EDITOR NJ ths~s letters tells somsthlha
about them Nv IN introduction especially
about Dnmrtt. who had a political career
4 thirty years In New Zealand. Letters
from Arnould to Domett arr included here,
md they arr much moro worthy and interest.
.nR than any that proceeded to New Zealand
IRON browning. Plainly Arnould took hia
time and was not disturbed or clrtailed
II what he had 10 say by any sense 81 tho
impending flight Of a ship. No letters Of
hs begin by eaying that tho ship Ii going
and that here eOes. He was an interesting
narrator and critic. Domett learned from
him all about the quick damnation Of
Rrowning's play. "A Blot IN tho 'S~cutcheon'
over which Browning and Maoready quar-.
relied. Lucky for the New Zealander that
he did not nave 10 depend upon Browning
for news Of the fate Of tho play. All that
the poet had 70 cay of the catastrophe
was contained in a paFenthesis In u letter
that seems to have been fastening in the
usual manner TO catch the ship. The
parenthetioal land pathetic) news from
Browning ran: 'Macready has used me
vilely.'
But Arnould wrote q long, fulfilling letter
telling, We should think. everything-how
Maoready tried to do the high and mighty
with Browning; how Browning wouldn't
have It; how Macready wanted to postpone
tho production; how Browning would not
hear Of the -postponement; how Macready
withdrew from his part; how Browning
did not care II be did withdraw; how Ma
cready, In @ condescending manner, said
that-well, he would appear; how -our
Robert said that he should not appear,
that he would not have him; how the play
was produced without Macready; how Mac
ready, who was manager as well as act or,
cav to II that there should be O most shabby
production, and how the play ran for three
nights, Arnould attending all three per-
iormances and liking it better and better
each time.
The letter In which Arnould sent this sad
but ample news to New Zealand fills eighteen
printed pages. In the course Of it he speaks
OF Cariyle's having .just emitted a book
called Past and Present'-a wild Isaiah-like
utpuuClhtlou u tDo thS1Sy WA cAhPpSfo
the rude style OF which he carefully repre-
bends. Il IN sorry for this he says. u
think the book would nave done a million
times the good II is yer likely to do now
il he had not, as though wantonly and with
horse laughter, driven away from his pages
all who have ever sworn by Addison and re-
joioed in the harmony Of Robertson We
wonder IL the false w%orshippers would really
have trembled more and been fewer IL 1t
had been Addison who addressed them in
rcbuke.
A little further on we read: by the bye
l must not forget in this melange Of all news
to tell you that Charles Dickens doles out
monthly numbers Of a Nickleby tale called
Martin Chuzzlewit' to about 90, 900 monthly
consumers. l persist, in spite OF all the
pertinacity Of Maria n others, that the
thing is a falling off-that there is less fun
than there used to be, less incident and
next to no interest. Instead Of Sam Weller's
good things we have much too often only
Charles Dickens's fine things; and though
there can be no doubt about the elegant
composition and sometimes elevated,
though too often fantastical and would-be
profound or would-be German, tone Of the
thought contained in his Introductory and
meditative passages, yet I would give a
whole volume of them for n page Of
inimitable Sam"
Surely Anould, whether We agree with
him or with Maria. and whatever we may
think about the German tone, wrote with
no anxious eye watching for a reoeding
ship, and his letters must have carried joy
to New Zealand. Domett returned from
that far and in 1871 at the age Of 80 years,
bearing with him a poem Of 1900 lines,
which Browning helped him to get published.
OF course, it is not Included here.
Concerning a Vision at the Savoy.
1t is unusual in a story, audit is calculated
to shock the reader, to have the heroine
die early in the tale. 1t might reasonably