The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-07
How the Real oOe Famous Authors
Differed from Love They Portrayed
Letters of Greatest Writers
ShowiHeart Secrets Little
Known.

A LII the world loves a lover-in.a
"a book.
1t is very much irclined to
laugh in its sleeve-or op nly-when
in real life it stumbles across a victim
of the divine foolishness that poe s
have sat up nights trying to adequately
describe.
prefer. is wonderful In real life It's
also wonderful. mostly because it's so
very different from the boolly sort.
Naturally, then. when we take such
a keen interest in the lives and loves o.
our favorite heroes and heroines. an
J opportunity to find out something about
the romances of their creators seems t,
us too good to be overlooked. We want
to know how they found love at close
range. these persons of the nimble pens,
who knew how to lift us out of our
selves into a dream world. a world
where love was perfect, Did they find
real ove like the love they pictured?
We wonder.
In a neat little volume published by
the John Mcbride Company. Lionel
Strachey has printed about 10 love
letters of famous novelists and poets.
Lord Byron. of the many loves; tn
faithful Balzac and his Madame Hans
ka: George Sand and Alfred De Musset;
Goethe and the Frau Won Stein, and
many. many others.
Appended are a few samples. Read
for yourself and decide for yourself
whether they found real love as salts
flying as the sort they dispensed so lav-
ishly among their leading characters.
One thing about those writing per-
sons-they could love often, if not well
though some loved very we'll, as you
Will note.
Burns. for instance. wrote the fo'-
lowing to Ellison Begbie, a pretty lit
tie farm girl to whom he thought he'd
given his heart:
Il can assure YOU, my dear, l often
look up to the Divine Disposer of
events with an eye-of gratitude for the
blessing which | hope He intends 10 be-
stow on me in bestowing YOU"
Evidently he had the Divine Disposerl
on his side, FOR later on he wrote to
his dear Clarinda, who was a Mrs.
Agnes M'Lehose:
Il have just now come in and have
read your letter The first thing | did
was to thank the Divine Disposer of
events~that He has had such happiness
in store for me as the c%opneXion have
had with you. Life, my Clarihda, is a
weary, barren path; and woe be to him
or her that ventures on it alone. For
me, ! have my dearest partner of my
soul; Clarinda and l viii make our pill
grimage together"
Who would think Buiwer Lytton,
who thrilled us with The Lady of
Lyons and others, capable of this:
.tMe has bought such a pretty tea set
for 90, and a dessert set of Dresden.
Me will not send 90 presents yet, but
me hopes 90 will see them at Woodcot,
very, very soon. If 90 knew how happy
me was, me is now, 90 would be happy.
too-would 90 not. darlingest?
"Messrs Kisses. & Co.-Pay to
Poodle;
10, 000,0 900 TO her eyes.
"a, $50. $40, 0S7 to her lips.
$4,000. 010. 005 to her cheeks.
rs me good? PUPPY
In the face of such asinine foolish
ness 1t is good to turn to the Keats
chapter. His love for the beautiful,
b~rainless Fanny Brawne was the es-
senee of unselfshness. 1t is said that
during his long illness he refused TO