The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-19

Us q jest. I can laugh 1t his -E6fdsbipis
oaSils a. Mr.. Locke, his envy Of Plato and
ell the old philosophers, but I could With
GREAT s~efiousneas epply 10 him tho words
Of his fde.ds and poet 70 tho Ounces
It's yours q Bacon and o Locke 70 blame,
ANewton's genius or q Miton'B haune.
But Oil with one, Immortal one, dispense,
The source OF Newton life or Bacon's sense
Mrs. Montagu goes on to edo his Lordship
tho Justice TO say that what he wants In
faith he makes up In confidence, for after
having assured you II 10 absurd to afiifm
God 10 lust or good he declares he is willing
10 trust tho being, whose attributes he oan-
not know, TO dispose Of him In another
world, not at all doubling that the Supreme
Being Will DO good 10 him, without goodness,
and just 10 him, without ~tusticel He laughs
at the faith Of Abraham, and ! should do
%, too, II Abraham had disputed Code
veracity and then trusted 10 His promises.
I eve read such q mass. Of Inconsistencies
and contradictions, such q vain ostentation
Of learning, and, II ] burst, I would cay IL,
all that can show the trining head or tho
corrupted heart.'s
hear something In this correspondence, as
he was o friend Of Mrs. Montague intimate
friend, Mrs. Donnellan. He had published
Pamela In ITO. and In the spring OF l74S
was to bring out 'Clarissa Harlowe,' which
was to make such a lasting sensation. In
November. i7bs, Mrs. Donneilan writes: Il
want you to read Sir Charles Grandson;
It 10 not formed on your plan OF banishing
delicaoy. I am afraid IL carries 1t too far
on t'other side, and is too fine spun; but
there are flne things and fine characters 10
IL, and l don't know how II II, but his tedi-
usness gives one an eagerness to so on.
There is o lovesick madness that ! think
extremely fine and touching, but, II YOU
have not read It, I must pot forestall. I
think I win " to you the great fault OF
my friends writings: there is too much OF
everything To Henry Fielding there Is
an allusion in q letter to Mrs. Montagu
from her sister Sarah. We find Smollett
mentioned In one letter, under date OF
January, 1852. in which Mrs. Moptagu
recommends to her ~sister's perusal "The
Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle
Oarrick figures much more conspicuously
than does any novelist in these volumes.
Mrs. DonneIlan records in q letter addressed
to Mrs. Montagu in November, i747, that
she went to rec Garrick and Mrs. Cibber Ia
king Lear She Gays that both performed
extremely we'll. I think he took b part OF
the old testy mailman better than that Of q
hero, and Mrs. Cibber is the soft. tender
Cordeiio to perfection. lam only provoked
that they have altered S~hakespeare's plain,
sincere, artless creation into a whining.
1~ovesick maid. I would have an act Of Par
lament, at least OF Council, hat nobody
-l-.yI - -o~1 30 aknaNoapo fOY IL
makes sad patchwork Mrs. Montagu
had previously said that she thought tho
part Of Hotspur not equal to the genius OF
Gsrrick.' In October, l7to, abe tells a cor"
respondent: Il hear there is a great strife
and contention between Mr.. Barry and
Garrick, each acting the part Of Romeo
every night, and that the ladies think the
first. makes the best lover, by which one
may learn they think beauty a better quail
foation than sense in that character, for
Barry always seems to betray the fool in
all the parts he appears in In July. 17b2.
Mrs. Montagu met Garrick at Tunbridge
Wells and recounts that be- had an incom-
parable letter from Beranger R. Berenger.
the Little Marquis Gentleman ofthe Horse
to George I'LL, which he read with proper
humor one day he dined here.r or Peg
Wellington, we read In q letter written
by Mrs. Donnellan in London, November,
,l74i, to Elizabeth Robinson mot ye. mar"
RED to Edward Montagu), that plays arc
much f~rsquented, both to- see Barbarini
dance and q new actress from Ireland-her
name IL Wellington. She exoels In mons
parts, and is to act Sir Harry Wildair'
next Monday, by the Kings, commands,
and all the world goes. We poor Irish
run tho gauntlet about her: we hear in many
companies, She has q great deal OF Irish
assurance I desired it should be called
staRe assurance In December Mrs. Dom
nellan writes again to say she had been to
the play twioe In one week: 'Ons Of u
plays was to 600 Mrs. Wellington perform
the part OF Sir Harry Wildair,' and. indeed,
I never saw anything done with more life
and spirit; but, at the same time, she looked
too young. too handsome. and her voice
seemed moro proper for opera than for the
play, 90 that We zee, when things are out Of
nature, though they may have many beau
ties, In the whole they will not please. and
q beard and a deep voice are a. proper to
make a man agreeable as a soft voice and
smooth face to q woman
".
Among the distinguished mon OF letters
whom we encounter in these volumes we
naturally turn with most interest to Ed
mund Burke and DR.. johnson, bearing In
mind, however. that the letters here re-
produced do not carry III beyond l7el.
When Mrs. Montagu fret met Burke We
do not learn. The first reference TO him
in her letters is In December, i75s. She
tells a correspondent that II any inquiries
need to be made by her at Cork she can
yet good intelligence by means Of Mr..
Burke, q young lawyer by profession,
though an author by practice. for he wrote
natural history l'vindioation Of Natural
Society," preferable to artificial In Jan
uary, 1859, she tells her learned acquaint-
anoe, Mrs. Carter: Il shall send you q
treatise on 'The Sublime and Beautiful
by Mr.. Burke, a friend OF mine. I do not
know that you will always subscribe to
his system, but think you will find him an
elegant and ingenious writer. He Is far
from the port pendantry and assuming ig-
norance Of modern Writings: but in CONVEX
sation and writing, an Ingenious and in
genuous man. modest and delicate, and on
great and serious subjects full Of that re-