Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-06

poet debating Paradise Lost" to his
admiring daughters is but an effort OF
the ina ginaton. Had that picture been
true should not have the Milton of the
Faithborne portraits, with the bitter lines
marked on the face-the face of one who
conquers. perhaps, but who pays the
price for his conquest.
The extent of Milton's pecunia-y sue
cess in the case of Paradise Lost" is
we'll known. Ten pounds went to the pot,
while the Tonson family. to whom the
copyright was assigned. lived to ride In
their carriages on the pronts. O.her
works went through many vtclssitudes:
The "Eikonoclastes" and Defence or
the People of England" go famous under
the commonwealth, were burnt by the
common hangman after the restoratlon'
tan Richard Baron by John Swale.
bookseller Of Leeds in Yorkshire, an hon
est man, though of high church., VINO re-
lated that he could have more money Tor
the burning of the "Defence'' than Baron
would give for the purchase OF It. Some
priests in the neighborhood." according
to Swale. used to meet once a year anu.
after they were we'll warmed with strong
beer they sacrificed to the flames the
authors Defensio pro Popure Angll-
cano.' as also the treatise against the
'Eikon.'" And at one time il was not
safe to mention Milton $ name. the ini-
tials J. NJ. being used. as in the defense
of his old friend. which Andrew MARVEL
wrote against the vituperative Bishop
Parker. Another bishop. Sprat Of Roch-
ester, erased the word Milton from the
epitaph on John Philips in the cathedral
as mot fit to be in a. Christian church.
The tale of mock funeral of Milton
carried out by his well w!shers previous
TO the passing Of the act Of indemnity
is probably untrue. He was compelled TO
remain in hiding for three months. how
ever. in Bartholomew Close, Sm.tnhc!d,
where Benjamin Franklin more than
sixty years later worked as compoSitor,
and was actually in prison for few days
before the bill was passed and he was
allowed, already blind, to take up tenn
porary quarters in a house near Lincoln's
Inn and what were then Red Lion Fields.
1t is a curious fact, and one to be re-
GREETED in connection with the present
London celebration of Milton's tercen-
tenary, that not one of Miltons homes IN
the city remain to this day.
His birthplace, the house of John Mill
ton. scrivener. in Bread street; his lodg-
ings, after mis- return from h-s French
and Italian tour, in St Brides church
ward, near Fleet street; his house ana
garden in AlderSgate street. than when
in his time there were few streets III
London more free from noise according
to his nephew. Edward Phillips; his homes
in the Barbican, whittier he went after his
reconciliation. with his first wife, in High
Holborn, and in Spring Gardens, neigh
borhooi now chiefly associated with the
London county council: that in Petty
France now York street. where he mar
ried lis second wife and whence he fed
after the restoration to Barthol omeW
Close and his last two aboces in Jewin
street Aldersgate. and in Artillery " ak.
Bunhill Fields, where he made the tii al
marriage so diStasteful to his daughter
Mary-all these have been swept away al
together or are no longer to be identified.