New-York tribune., 1910-07-17

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a few in order to talk with the King about csrtaa
things in them "Other people too. would give
him "a az aqantlyt n[etong oI and say to him You ms
give me time to read them ana tleh sL & Is.I q.
sav about him personally; on the contrary
think it rather amuses him to be abused
Mrs. Motley was an excellent letter writs
and her epistles were assuredly worth pubiea'
ton. Among the earliest is one written IN BOs
ton in 1871, when Fanny Elssler was delightng
the town with her dancing, and when, aprop0
of that fascinating performance, the sage "
Emerson remarked to the wise Miss Fulef
Margaret, this is religion Mrs Motley. IN
letter to her absent husband, tells him that 50.
has seen Fanny eight times and her entnuS'
asm has not diminished a jot- As for rrleal
who went with her on one occasion she vas
on the verge of tears the whole evening Shs
said the pathetic was one Of the strongest sen
sations IFannyI excited in her" When the
dancer made her little farewell speech the staf
Mr. Cabot's eyes were running over" Whai
dignifed Boston householder weeps to-day oVG
the graces of Miss Isadora Duncan or Miss Run
St Denist In the following year young Ms
Motley has much to say of Charles Dickens
and Of the exquisite torments inflicted upon
him by the crowds Of Americans who had n
mercy in their pursuit of him The noVelG
was literally used up. and loudly conpialnsl
that he had been obliged to forego al the pdI-
ticular purposes for which he came to thS
country for the sake of giving himself up as
spectacle. Mrs. Motley says:
Somebody told me that the other evening. Ehsi
he was Obliged to stay al Gome from pIiIsS pTIesS S
him at the fremont House. and: in spite y
Dickenss repeated re1usaIs 70 see nm, | IN Ico,
hnir and then reduestei MI D. TO allow him 70
hri
Dickens told him he really must excuse him. e
was too i'll to remain up any longer, and went .
his room and threw himself on the bed; in spit;
of this. the man brought UP his VIE ana pass
another hour with Mr.. Dickens-did you eve
hear anything so disgusting The women. not U:
common people, for that you could excuse, Ae--
and AIexander's room is crammed every day VII,
girls and women who call themselves lIdles =
other day he was absolutely obliged TO force nm,
self through the crowd, and one woman stepEs41
you be Kind enough TO walk entirely round n. z,
room so that we can all have LOOK az yop, 81, yo-
which makes me feel sometimes as If 1 sn0u.-
cry with modification Chapman's invitation
"Mr Dickens. will you dine with me-"
II am very sorry | am engaged
will you SUI. with me?"
viii you lunch with me-"
'I am engaged
.WiH you breakfast with meT'
'rWeI. will YOU sleep with me-"
THANK you. with the greatest pleasure, not. Hi-a,
ttOn to sleep"
Miss Lily Motley-who in after years becams
the wife of Sir William Vernon Harcourt-haa
like her mother. n pretty gift of letter wruns
and eye for character and personal peculiar
ties. She gives her father q neat little plctul9
of Buckle as seen at a London dinner parry
He is bald, she says, having only a few snlAi
hairs brushed across the top of his head IL
has rather cOnnical face the features al UP
bunch. and 4 pursed-up mouth We liked NJ
very much. He does not talk all the time an
he seemed to me to allow other people 10 eA
press their opinions. He had q great deA !"
say about imagination and said that he snou.-
not hesitate to take it rather than underSIan-
ing, if he were offered his choice between u1
two. that great poet was greater than srsS'
mathematician. and more in the same strai-
All this seemed rather astonishing from ll@-'
the object of whose writing appears to DC
divest history of all it's romantic elements az
reduce it to a system of statistics" Bucs,s.
interesting statement that he wrote most OF =
books in his head during his walks Is chrVA
cled on another page.
This touching letter of sympathy Motley %
to Mrs. Lincoln after her husbands death
printed in this volume. and deserves to De y
great Presidents character by the historian
the noble republic of the sixteenth century:
Most painfully have I studied almost his esssl
act and utterance during the momentouS ~,
in which his name has been identified witn 80
Of nd ADNr hy day has